The discussion revolves around creating a blog-like user profile in Discourse. hbm seeks a theme or theme component to transform the user home page into a blog-style interface, highlighting posts with previews and organizing other user activities like replies and badges in tabs or sidebars. hbm asks whether such a customization would be suitable as a theme component compatible with other themes. Falco suggests that for a group-blogging experience, specialized software like Forem might be more appropriate. hbm appreciates the suggestion but prefers Discourse due to its maturity, plugins, and community, expressing interest in learning Ruby, Rails, and Ember to contribute to the platform.
Hi, I tried to look for a theme, maybe theme components, that present users home page more like a blog, i.e, highlight the list of user posts (with previews), use a tab or side bar to present other information such replies, badges, user interaction with others.
Overall, I trie to use discourse to provide more of a group-blogging experience. Appreciate if you may have a pointer. thanks!
Follow-up questions: is a customized user-profile page more suitable as a theme-component that could work together with other themes ?
I can look into the customization if no similar effort is available .
Yes, that makes sense.
If you are looking into more of a
instead of a community discussion software, maybe try more specialized software like https://www.forem.com/ ?
Thanks for the suggestion! I did look into Forem. It is also great.
The customization I was looking into 1) rely more on tags for content organization 2) post book/series 3) blog-like user-profile are all built-in by Forem.
But I choose to go with discourse for the maturity, plugins/themes and the awesome community! Hopefully I’ll soon pick up enough ruby/rails/ember to make meaningful contributions.