Discussion Kit - Easy-to-set-up forum website powered by GitHub Discussions
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Easy-to-set-up forum website powered by GitHub Discussions. Create a modern, lightweight community forum with seamless GitHub integration.
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Community forums are still one of the best ways to collect feedback, answer questions, and build discussions around a project. The problem is that most forum software comes with a lot of overhead. You need a server, a database, authentication, moderation tools, and ongoing maintenance before anyone can even create their first post.
I wanted something much simpler.
That's why I built git-forums—a SvelteKit-powered forum template that uses GitHub Discussions as the backend. If your project already lives on GitHub, you can turn its Discussions section into a fully featured forum website without setting up any additional infrastructure.
The result is a fast, static website that can be deployed directly to GitHub Pages while GitHub handles discussions, replies, user accounts, reactions, and moderation.
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GitHub Discussions are powerful but rarely feel polished. What convinced you there was room for a dedicated website around them?
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Hi @aryan787544, this project actually started from a practical need: I wanted a custom forum for another project of mine, but didn't want to bolt on a separate service like MyBB or another forum tool. Since most of that project's community was already on GitHub, I looked at GitHub Discussions as an option — but I wasn't happy with how it looked or felt. So I built this instead.
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@notreeceharris1 @reeceharris That origin makes sense. It also suggests the opportunity isn't just making GitHub Discussions look better—it's making communities feel like they're have a dedicated home without asking people to leave the GitHub workflow.
I'm curious whether, over time, you see Discussion Kit being valued more for the polished experience or for helping communities build a stronger identity around their own space. Those feel like two very different reasons people would adopt it.
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honestly the github integration here is pretty clever, basically turns discussions into a full forum without the usual bloat. love how lightweight it feels.
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Hi@kadriye663730, honestly i don’t know why it hasn’t been done before there are similar products like giscus however that is only for creating comment sections on pages not an entire forums site.
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đź’ˇ Bright idea
A markdown editor preview toggle would be huge for drafting longer posts. Right now I have to commit and check the rendered result, which slows down my writing flow a lot.
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Hi@nuriyetoplp0p0Â that is already a feature within the posting system, if you mean live rendering side by side this is something i can look at adding. I just want to say thank you for trying out Discussion Kit
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đź’Ž Pixel perfection
Set it up in like ten minutes using my existing repo, and the GitHub login just worked. Posts show up in both my forum and the repo's Discussions tab, which is way more useful than I expected.
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Hi@pek302090088383Â thank you so much for trying out my project, please let me know if you have any feature ideas or issues this is a passion project for me so im keen to improve it
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Discussion Kit
GitHub Discussions are powerful but rarely feel polished. What convinced you there was room for a dedicated website around them?
Hi @aryan787544, this project actually started from a practical need: I wanted a custom forum for another project of mine, but didn't want to bolt on a separate service like MyBB or another forum tool. Since most of that project's community was already on GitHub, I looked at GitHub Discussions as an option — but I wasn't happy with how it looked or felt. So I built this instead.
@notreeceharris1 @reeceharris That origin makes sense. It also suggests the opportunity isn't just making GitHub Discussions look better—it's making communities feel like they're have a dedicated home without asking people to leave the GitHub workflow.
I'm curious whether, over time, you see Discussion Kit being valued more for the polished experience or for helping communities build a stronger identity around their own space. Those feel like two very different reasons people would adopt it.
honestly the github integration here is pretty clever, basically turns discussions into a full forum without the usual bloat. love how lightweight it feels.
Hi@kadriye663730, honestly i don’t know why it hasn’t been done before there are similar products like giscus however that is only for creating comment sections on pages not an entire forums site.
A markdown editor preview toggle would be huge for drafting longer posts. Right now I have to commit and check the rendered result, which slows down my writing flow a lot.
Hi@nuriyetoplp0p0Â that is already a feature within the posting system, if you mean live rendering side by side this is something i can look at adding. I just want to say thank you for trying out Discussion Kit
Set it up in like ten minutes using my existing repo, and the GitHub login just worked. Posts show up in both my forum and the repo's Discussions tab, which is way more useful than I expected.
Hi@pek302090088383Â thank you so much for trying out my project, please let me know if you have any feature ideas or issues this is a passion project for me so im keen to improve it