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Introduce Webstudio to Discourse users

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The post suggests that it may be beneficial to get the attention of people using the Discourse forum software, as Discourse still recommends installing it in a subdomain, which could suggest a need for an alternative homepage. The community member believes Discourse could benefit from the design functionality of webstudio, and that the API should work with the forum, which uses Markdown. The comments discuss the potential need for a custom design for Discourse, with some community members expressing satisfaction with the current Discourse themes, while others dislike the user experience. The discussion also covers the use of Discourse as a commenting system on external sites, and the possibility of integrating Discourse with other platforms like WordPress and Ghost. The main suggestion is to market webstudio to the Discourse community to gain traction and support.

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JJacob
Maybe it would pay off to get the attention of people using the Discourse forum software ?

I think they still recommend installing it in a subdomain, which suggests something else for the homepage.

And they could definitely need webstudio for proper design functionality.

And the API stuff should work with the forum right ?

The posts in the forum are using Markdown also.

Just a thought.
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OOleg Isonen
You are the first person suggesting to build a frontend with webstudio for discourse forum. I don't think this is a popular need.
JJacob
Ok
fferreirex
I like to use Discourse as forum/community tool, but dont mind to use the current theme of Discourse.
JJacob
The purpose behind my suggestion was marketing to the discourse community. Not a suggestion to do anything specific to the builder.
OOleg Isonen
For this people from discourse community need to have the need for making a completely custom design ... I don't know if that need exists
OOleg Isonen
its likely that they are fine with whatever optinos this software has built in for changing the theme
JJacob
There is a plugin for wordpress, WP Discourse, suggesting that need.

Also Discourse can be used as a commenting system on external sites.

Discourse itself uses Ghost for their own blog.

But hey, no worries. I just really do not like the themes on Discourse.

Just a suggestion.
OOleg Isonen
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/

this plugin doesn't do any theming work, I haven't used it but it seems purely for for function, not for design
JJacob
It is used for integration of comments on wordpress if you are using wordpress as your main site and discourse as a commenting engine or forum with integration for commenting on blog posts.

The point is that people are using wordpress as a kind of main site.

The plugin has a gutenberg comments block also.

What would you recommend for comments with webstudio ?
OOleg Isonen
we use Ghost as a bloging engine over api, I think we would enable comments there if we wanted them, otherwise I don't have a suggestion, maybe @John Siciliano has
JJacob
I am not talking about a complete redesign of the ux of the Discourse forum at all. More like Discourse users getting a good alternative for their main site.
OOleg Isonen
https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-comments-on-another-website-via-javascript/31963

what I found
JJacob
Personally I really do not like the discourse ux at all. Not at all.
JJacob
Yes, I know about that. I have mentioned it in this thread.

My suggestion is to point Discourse users to webstudio, also because of the api. It should also be easy to bind a discourse forum post or wiki to webstudio as a blog.

Nothing more really. Gain traction and support.
JJacob
And Discourse is not just for comments. Discourse is more like this Discord we are using here. Divhunt is using Discourse for their support.

Discourse has live chat now. Just as Discord has a forumlike functionality now.
JJacob
Why use ghost and Discord when you could just use Discourse ? Sure you have your reasons and they are not completely alike, I get that. Just saying....
OOleg Isonen
Hmm, well if its just a matter of embedding a discourse widget, what are we supposed to do specifically?
JJacob
Maybe read the original post again? Just get the attention of people using Discourse and sell/advertise/raise awareness about your product. That was the suggestion.
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