# Switching from Disqus to Giscus (GitHub Discussions)

DevFeed: [Switching from Disqus to Giscus (GitHub Discussions)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/switching-from-disqus-to-giscus-github-discussions-26085.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.arkey.fr/2022/10/16/moving-from-disqus-to-giscus/>)

Author: brice.dutheil@gmail.com (Brice Dutheil)

Published: 2022-10-16T15:08:53Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [The Coffee Workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-coffee-workshop.md>)

Topics: [Giscus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/giscus.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugo.md>), [Jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jekyll.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugo.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface.md>), [jekyll](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jekyll.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [switching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/switching.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial describes migrating a blog's comments from Disqus to GitHub Discussions using Giscus. It explains the motivations for the migration, the basic Giscus setup, repository requirements, and discussion category configuration.

## Source excerpt

In the story of this blog I used WordPress, and using the WordPress comments then moved to Discus as it was better at handling spam. Then I switched this blog to GitHub with first Jekyll with markdown then finally to Hugo, this worked well enough. Then lately I've been a bit more displeased by the Disqus editing capability (no markdown (or asciidoc) support, no preview). More people tend to have a GitHub account than a Disqus account (for tech blogs). Also, GitHub introduced GitHub Discussions which was appealing to use with blogs.