Hi all, I would like to develop a plugin for displaying GitLab/GitHub activity notifications in Discourse Chat, or more broadly any kind of regular events. For a richer output I would like to display activity as a card, and I saw that chat messages have a blocks JSON field that seems useful for th…

Mostly I would like API that would allow a plugin to: Register a chat message block type name, owned by that plugin Optionally, provide a JSON schema validator for that block Register a renderer for that block All of this can be patched in, but if there is an official API, the stability and safet…

Extending chat message blocks

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) June 16, 2026, 5:20pm 2

It’ snot high on our roadmap atm, but can you describe what kind of API you think you would need?

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