The ability to quote and cite from a non-Discourse site

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That’s OK, I’ll dig and see if I find anything, while I wait to see if others know :slight_smile:

Edit: I think there might be a way to do it not exactly using the quote function but something similar. I think a simple bookmarklet could work as such:

  1. Select the text
  2. Press the bookmarklet
  3. Bookmarklet then turns the selected text and current URL into a markdown blockquote as such:
> example.com:
> Lorem ipsum text
  1. Bookmarklet copies that text to the clipboard.

When pasting such a thing into a Discourse composer, it should look like this:

example.com:
Lorem ipsum text

I think the bookmarklet could get more advanced, by using the create a new topic URL option, or allowing a person to choose which site they want to add it to, however, I think such a simple bookmarklet could go a long way.

Regardless, I will still probably just quote text like this from now on, even though it currently requires a little more back and forth.

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