Comparing Giscus to Valine
Compare Giscus with Valine for adding comments to your static site.
- No ads
- no tracking
- open source
- data in GitHub Discussions
- themes
- multiple languages
- reactions
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- ties to GitHub ecosystem
- still actively developed
- No backend required
- fast
- lightweight
- Markdown support
- emoji support
- visitor count feature
- Relies on third-party services (LeanCloud) for storage
- privacy concerns with data stored externally
- development paused
Giscus
A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions
Overview
Inspired by Utterances but uses GitHub Discussions instead of issues; self-hosting available
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Valine
A fast, simple and efficient comment system without back-end
Overview
LeanCloud free tier is limited; requires configuration; Chinese-developed