Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn’t find anything too close to answering my question: I’ve used discourse in the past for a project - but I was attempting to create something similar to how macrumors.com has a blog style/forum website. Is that possible with discourse or is there any plugin available for purchase that can do something similar? I understand many will suggest using WordPress and integrating discourse as forum, but I’d like all topics/blog posts to essentially become discussions like in a forum. On main page I’d like snippets of let’s say the blog post category to be displayed with images. The only post that had anything similar to this mentioned a site called elektronauts, but they appeared to use a fully customized plugin. Thanks for any help or pointing in the right direction!

Good timing. See this very recent topic which is a good place to start: [image] Discourse as a simple personal blog engine Community Building I use Discourse a lot, across my small number of health-related fora and of course via my work with thepavilion.io with @angus @merefield @fzngagan @Ellibereth and I find the more I can use Discourse, the more I can familiarise myself with all the features, plugins, theme-components, and ecosystem. For nearly 10 years I’ve had a GitHub Pages static jekyll site as my personal/work blog, and I decided to revamp this, and thought I’d try setting myself up with a Discourse instance as a blog. Today… Do any of the options in the Topic List Preview plug-in appeal? [image] Topic List Previews (legacy) Plugin This is now a Theme Component, the plugin is deprecated The new Topic is Topic List Previews Theme Component - theme - Discourse Meta [GitHub-Mark-32px] Repository: get the code here See further here: Pavilion [sandbox] Examples: check out the list further down. raising_hand_woman Request a feature bug Report a bug heart Donate: we are reviewing our donations system. Please check back later :). man_technologist Maintainers: @merefield Overview Topic List Previews allows you to: …

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pctweakz January 11, 2020, 2:18am 3

I believe that topic list preview may just do the trick enough for now! Will definitely give a more unique look - thank you!

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