GitHub: How to get `utteranc.es` to work for website discussion-CodePudding

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Edit2 Following the solution suggested by @laymonage, I fixed the script. I now get the Comments section on my web page, but get an error, "utterances not installed" when I try to use it. Yet, utterances is installed, as I just checked.

CodePudding user response：

This part of your code:

if (!/posts/.test(location.pathname)) { return; }

Prevents the rest of the script to load because it's always true.

The condition checks whether the value of location.pathname passes the regular expression test string posts and negates it (!). That means the condition is true if the location.pathname (the path name of the current URL, e.g. /HistDataVis/ for https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/) does not contain posts anywhere in the string. None of the pages on your website has posts in the pathname, so the script will end there.

It should work if you change /posts/ to /HistDataVis or just remove the if block altogether.

Alternatively, you can also try giscus, a similar project that uses GitHub Discussions instead of Issues. Someone already made a guide on how to use it with Distill. Disclaimer: I'm the developer of giscus.