Show Number of Comments for a given post

[JacobBennett]

Medium being the inspiration... would be cool to have a toolbar-ish listing of how many comments and how many stars a gistlog has at the bottom as a reader is scrolling. Could also contain links to share it on twitter, facebook, etc.

Users could also use this toolbar to star the gist directly on github after authenticating.

[mattstauffer]

That is a cool idea. :)

[milose]

GitHub API does not currently provide for stargazers_count like on repositories. But I think it is possible to check if the authenticated user gave a star to a gist and an API call to star / unstar:
https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#star-a-gist

[rubemlrm]

Looks that its possible to get the number of comments for given gist( https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#get-a-single-gist) but for stars we can't get that kind of information :( . I can try add the comments information. And looks that's possible to start a gist from api too.

[ThomasRedstone]

It looks like this request has been around a good while, and the API still doesn't appear to support getting the star count of a gist.
Perhaps the two parts of this should be split off? With the star count waiting until a future API change makes it possible.

[mattstauffer]

@ThomasRedstone that's fine; if someone picks up just the comment count that could still be fun. I believe we already have it at the top of the comment section, but it would be fun to also put it in some sort of Medium-like display.

[mattstauffer]

Current plan:

• Number of comments
• Star/unstar for current user

Future plan, making a separate issue:

• Number of stars