I am so happy to learn that Discourse has a carousel mode, which lead me to learn that it has a grid (gallery) mode!
I’m a Discourse newbie, still working out the kinks in my migration from phpBB. One of the issues for me has been the provision in phpBB for attachment comments, for which there is no similar provision in Discourse. However, running a ruby script in the import container, I’m able to extract phpBB attachment comments from the mysql database, and assign them - when present - to uploads in Discourse, italicized as shown below:
This is how phpBB looks
This is how Discourse looks after running the ruby script
However - now just learning about grid/carousel mode - I find that applying it wrecks my captions:
I love that a post can be gridded! But the upload comments bear no apparent relation to the upload after applying. What’s curious, is that while text from the post (intended as captions) appear here in grid mode, they don’t appear at all in carousel mode.
I suppose this is a feature request, and should be moved there; because in general, I think the absence of a way to bind a comment to an upload is a serious omission. And it’s particularly manifest, when you grid an existing post.