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

I love quoting, and I love bookmarklets! :heart:

A few years ago I began working on copying stuff into Discourse for archiving/discussion (archiving in this sense is similar to copying images, for both privacy and historical reasons).

Anyhow, my first attempt worked for me at the time: https://talkgroup.xyz/t/discourse-has-an-api-for-updating-single-topics-adding-messages-etc/2557/6?u=maiki

<a class="bookmarklet" href="javascript:(function()%7Blocation.href%3D'https%3A%2F%2Ftalkgroup.xyz%2Fnew-topic%3Ftitle%3D'%2BencodeURIComponent(document.title)%2B'%26body%3D'%2BencodeURIComponent(location.href)%7D)()">talkgroup (as a verb)</a>

I’ve improved on it… but as a relaxing hack in a browser where I didn’t save any of it…

@jimkleiber let me know if you come up with anything, I’d try it out! :slight_smile:


Bringing up “quote anywhere” and Wikipedia in the same topic made me think of my favorite thing on Wikipedia that I wished were implemented at the browser level… but likely greatly modified to allow for privacy issues.

Anyhow: Wikipedia Previews!

Imagine using that, but with oEmbed/OpenGraph/Onebox support, so Discourse does the previewing!

(This isn’t a different feature request, just sharing to ideate better bookmarklets. ^_^)

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