GitHub plugin does not accept personal access token

Hey Marcel, welcome back!

I think you are not using the correct setting.
GitHub client secret is a core setting to configure GitHub login (to sign in to Discourse with your Github account); see Configure GitHub login for Discourse. It requires the creation of an OAuth App.

What you’re looking for to configure the GitHub plugin is here (type plugin:discourse-github)

Or click on Settings:

Then, you can use your personal token with GitHub linkback access token setting.

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