Integrating Discourse with a larger social network app?

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I didn’t realize you could quote from other threads, that looks very promising.

I don’t think we actually want to “embed” Discourse into another site - rather, Discourse would be a full, top-level sibling along with a bunch of other separate apps (most of which are written in Meteor/JS with a MongoDB backend), with some minimal amount of integration between them.

I’m thinking of something along these lines:

  • Users can belong to one or more collaborations (or “group” if you prefer).
  • Each collaboration can have multiple topics.
  • Members of a collaboration can view existing topics or create new ones.
  • Topics can be sent to more than one collaboration as well as to private individuals.

So that data model is a bit different than what you were describing.