Hello, I’m planning to start a humor community. What plugins should I install after installing Discourse? What are your recommendations?
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The discussion revolves around add-on suggestions for a humor-focused community on Discourse. Can initiates the thread, seeking plugin recommendations for a community centered on humor, particularly visual content like GIFs, videos, and jokes. NateDhaliwal points out that many popular plugins are now bundled with Discourse core, suggesting a starting point. Can elaborates that the community will be visually oriented, prompting NateDhaliwal to recommend the Discourse Gifs plugin and note native video embedding via oneboxes. Can expresses interest in learning more about video support. pfaffman advises starting with default settings and identifying specific needs before adding plugins, emphasizing that customization should stem from actual use cases.
Well, a bunch of plugins have recently been added to core. I would recommend reactions and gamification plugins. Could you elaborate a bit more on
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Thanks.
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Popular videos, GIFs, and jokes will be more visual and video-heavy than text. For example, what can I add besides the built-in plugins? I’d love to hear your suggestions for a novice Discourse user.
Check out Discourse Gifs.
For videos, IIRC there is native embed of them through oneboxes.
Are the specific things you’re looking for?
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As I use and develop the forum, I’ll be able to see my needs. I might ask for help from time to time. I’d be very grateful if you could offer any suggestions.
I suggest that you start with the defaults and see what actual problems you have that need to be addressed. No one can guess what your users might need that’s different.
What happens when you create a “visual and video-heavy” post? Is there something that could make it better??
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