congo VS giscus

I am using the amazing hugo theme 'Congo' to host a personal travel blog. While it is great, there is currently one manual step I need to take, which I would like to automate.

I'm a big fan of the Congo theme for Hugo: https://jpanther.github.io/congo/

It's simple to set up and looks pretty great.

Hugo in combination of the Congo Theme (see https://github.com/jpanther/congo) has scratched this itch for me. The theme is well thought out and has all the features I need.

I found these two files in the theme and I think I start here (vendor partial, chart shortcode). Thoughts?

That project also has Github issues and discussions pages to ask questions and get help.

When creating my blog-centric personal portfolio, I had a goal of launching it as soon as possible. However, considering including a comment feature, the implementation process could be time-consuming. That's when I started looking for a solution that was easy to set up yet provided essential commenting functionalities. It was during this search that I stumbled upon Giscus.

But now, a new fellow named giscus commenting system has entered the town, it's basically powered by github. Since I already host my blog on github pages, this should be a natural choice for me, right? Many bloggers seem to be migrating to this new system and I might too soon. The downsides however are as follows:

Get Giscus here.

Supports Giscus - a comments system powerd by Github Discussions.

I've encountered https://github.com/utterance/utterances, which relies on github issues for providing a blog comments system of a sort.

Alternatively there's https://github.com/giscus/giscus, which instead uses github discussions.

Haven't used either so can't comment (heh) on their "performance".

There's also a recent similar tool called https://github.com/giscus/giscus that uses Github Discussions as the backing system, rather than Issues.