devlog/use-utterances-for-jekyll-comments

[utterances-bot]

Use Utterances for Jekyll Comments System | Lazy Ren

Disqus is used as default comments plugin for the Hydejack and most of the static site. But I had some issues with Disqus, so I looked elsewhere to find new comments plugin. Disqus loads slowly. link within comment is broken. The most important reason I chose to move on. Disqus automatically adds prefix starting with disq.us/url?, the problem is…. disq.us is not responding so the link gets lost. Utterances uses github issues to save & display comments. So you have to give proper permission to the github-bot. But once you set things up correctly, it works very smoothly and fast. Only downside I’ve encountered so far is that it requires user to login to the github in order to write comments, and there is

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[tessapower]

I used your blog to help install Giscus (a similar service inspired by Utterances) on my own Jekyll site and it worked a treat! Ty Ren! 🙏

[LazyRen]

Thank you @tessapower!

I also migrated to Giscus from Utterances. Almost identical but uses discussions instead of issues to place comments.
Which makes more sense to me. Awesome!

[tskim9439]

Hello, first of all. Thank you so much for writing a good article. I'm sorry that I used your discus account by mistake. I modified the account information to mine. I want to ask you a question. I purchased a Hydejack theme PRO license, downloaded the starter kit, followed your blog, and customized it. Are any more actions required to use the PRO license? Do I have to put the PRO license info in some of the theme files? Thank you.

[LazyRen]

No there is none. It is okay to use PRO licensed Hydejack Pro for the public repo(I asked to the original author and confirmed it). Feel free to customize it yourself and happy blogging!

[hugohaggmark]

test

[bloggrammer]

Great post.

[bloggrammer]

Testing the reply.

[Nitinkumar-Gove]

From where did you get value for [your-category-id] ? I am unable to locate this during integration.

[LazyRen]

If you prefer to use your own(new) category, first create new category within repo's discussion.

After that, check Giscus, you will find discussion category tab where you can select existing category within your repo.

[Nitinkumar-Gove]

Thank you @LazyRen for your inputs ! I was able to figure this out !! Thank you very much !

[GlockTian]

Thank you so much! I finally got this working!

[4xLoff]

hello friend help me where do i get the repo id , categorya id please

[GlockTian]

Giscus

follow the instruction on giscus, it helps you get the script you want.

[isfar]

Thanks for the write-up. I am planning to use Giscus for my blog.

[YURLAK]

Thanks a lot!

[dXu23]

Only annoying thing is that the comment text area displays as the very last thing, when intuitively, it should be at the TOP of all the comments, just below the article.

[LazyRen]

Hm. Almost all sites that I use (including Github itself) has comment text area at the end of the comment/discussion session. So that never bothered me before.

If you are interested, you may create an issue for the Giscus/Utterances to support such as an option.

Currently, I only see option for a comment order.

[dXu23]

Maybe it's just because I spend too much time watching Youtube videos instead of programming though. "Add a comment" is always at the top of any comments on a Youtube. It's not a big problem if the number of comments are small; however, if there are hundreds of comments, then it does become an annoying UI/UX issue.

[davidadarme]

Thanks you so much!