PluginStatsgiscus installs statistics
By giscus · GitHub Marketplace
A commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions
giscus has 55,193 recorded installs on GitHub Marketplace.
It ranks #33 of 1,393 tracked GitHub Marketplace listings by installs.
PluginStats has 1 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 16, 2026.
About giscus
giscus
A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub!
• Open source. 🌏 • No tracking, no ads, always free. 📡 🚫 • No database needed. All data is stored in GitHub Discussions. • GitHub themes: light, dark, dark dimmed, and more! 🌗 • Only ~40KB total chunks size. ⚡ • Automatically fetches new comments and edits from GitHub. 🔃
how it works
When giscus loads, the GitHub Discussions search API is used to find the Discussion associated with the page based on a chosen mapping (URL, pathname, <title>, etc.). If a matching discussion cannot be found, the giscus bot will automatically create a discussion the first time someone leaves a comment or reaction.
To comment, visitors must authorize the giscus app to post on their behalf using the GitHub OAuth flow. Alternatively, visitors can comment on the GitHub Discussion directly. You can moderate the comments on GitHub.
Description from the GitHub Marketplace listing.
- Chat
- Publishing
Where giscus sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (1)Similar GitHub Marketplace plugins
Data source
Install counts (installations of each GitHub App across accounts and organizations) are read from public GitHub Marketplace listing pages. GitHub does not publish ratings. Category positions reflect GitHub's own popularity sort.
Listing: https://github.com/marketplace/giscus. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 16, 2026. See the methodology.