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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
8 followers
Easy-to-set-up forum website powered by GitHub Discussions. Create a modern, lightweight community forum with seamless GitHub integration.
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@nuriyetoplp0p0 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
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.
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@pek302090088383 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
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.