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Does utterances involve tracking, ads, or lock-in?: No. According to the utterances site, the widget has no tracking, no ads, and is always free. It also has no lock-in because all …
What Are the Design and Technical Characteristics of utterances?: utterances is a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues, styled with Primer (the CSS toolkit that powers GitHub) and i…
What Visitors Need to Comment with utterances: To comment through the utterances widget, a visitor needs a GitHub account and must authorize the utterances app via GitHub OAuth…
How utterances Matches a Page to a GitHub Issue: utterances finds the GitHub issue for a page by running a GitHub issue search when the widget loads, using one of three page iden…
What Is utterances and What Is It Used For?: utterances is a lightweight, open-source comment widget that stores comments as GitHub issues. It is designed for blog posts, wik…