🐞[Bug]: Giscus comment box doesn’t switch to dark mode

[santhosh-005]

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Describe the bug

The Giscus comment box on articles doesn’t switch to dark mode after signing in with GitHub, even though the rest of the site is in dark mode.

Expected behavior

Giscus should automatically match the site’s dark theme after GitHub authentication.

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[sanjay-kv]

can u check this again i can see this is working
@santhosh-005

[santhosh-005]

@sanjay-kv
Load site -> toggle dark mode -> signin with github on Giscus comment box
After that, it just stuck with the white theme
After refreshing, Its fix some time, sometime not

[Adez017]

its working as expected @sanjay-kv

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👤 Issue assigned to @santhosh-005.