iask

iask

Keep the conversation below the article.

Readers can follow the discussion, sign in with GitHub and leave a comment with a black-bear or panda sticker. Site owners connect iask through the consent settings; a visitor chooses whether to load it. The interface supports 17 languages, including right-to-left layouts.

Connect to a website

A comment with a little expression

A comment with a little expression

Write a reply, choose a panda sticker and publish. The sticker is visible in the editor before the comment appears below the article.

Reading and replying

Read first, sign in to reply

Visitors can read a discussion; GitHub sign-in identifies people who post.

Write with stickers

Black-bear and panda stickers appear alongside the words while editing.

Add it to an article

Register the service in config.yml. It loads after the reader grants consent.

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iask: optional website discussions

Pinned

iask owns the discussion interface and backend. Register it as an optional service in the website config.yml; readers decide whether to load it. GitHub sign-in is needed to publish, while public discussions remain readable without signing in. Pictures and bear or panda stickers accompany text, with stickers visible inside the editor.

Free hosting, largest usable allowances first (2026-10-04)
PriorityPlatformAllowance and conditions
1Cloudflare100,000 Worker requests/day; separate DO request limit, 5 GB total SQLite storage and daily read/write limits.
2NetlifyBuilt-in Database provisioned automatically; 300 credits/month shared by deploys, DB/functions and traffic. DB compute costs 10/CU-hour.
Existing DBVercelRequires separately configured PostgreSQL; not a recommended one-click database deployment.