# Any plans to make web stories for discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 4, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859 "2022-01-04T21:44:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jay91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay91)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/1 "2022-01-04T21:44:09Z")
So, today most of the services put in use stories for their users and i believe would be a good idea if this happened to discourse as well.
Also, this should have good tools to be enough for admins to control it.
for example, with ability to allow the users add stories, or specific users or only admins.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/2 "2022-01-04T22:01:20Z")
I investigated this a bit and it had some potential. However, the “standard” for web stories was 100% built on AMP. And with AMP going down, at least in the hype cycle, it put that standard in a harder place.
Obviously we could come up with our own format, which would be only usable from inside the instance where it lives, but there weren’t enough incentives for us to pursue that yet. Not to mention the whole FOMO-based engagement of information that disappears in 24h is not really our main focus.
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### Author:  [@volanar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/volanar)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/3 "2022-01-04T22:36:48Z")
I think personal Activity Streams would be of great value. So that each user can customize Activity Streams for themselves and receive role-based content (Customize your browsing experience that’s unique to you. Sort by unread, author, time period, tags, follows and more).
Here’s an example:
[https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/how-to-use-ips-community-suite/content-discovery/activity-streams-r69/](https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/how-to-use-ips-community-suite/content-discovery/activity-streams-r69/)
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### Author:  [@Decorbuz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Decorbuz)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/4 "2022-02-24T21:13:22Z")
It’s become a massive joke online that _everything_ must have “stories” built-in. In my honest opinion, it’s a bit ridiculous to be stuffing “stories” into platforms that don’t really need them. They make sense in Twitter and Instagram, but not Discourse.
> [@Falco](#):
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> However, the “standard” for web stories was 100% built on AMP. And with AMP going down, at least in the hype cycle, it put that standard in a harder place.
And it’s slowly being abandoned by publishers…
[https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishers-move-to-abandon-google-supported-mobile-web-initiative-11645725640](https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishers-move-to-abandon-google-supported-mobile-web-initiative-11645725640)
> [@volanar](#):
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> I think personal Activity Streams would be of great value. So that each user can customize Activity Streams for themselves and receive role-based content (Customize your browsing experience that’s unique to you. Sort by unread, author, time period, tags, follows and more).
> Here’s an example:
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> [https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/how-to-use-ips-community-suite/content-discovery/activity-streams-r69/](https://invisioncommunity.com/4guides/how-to-use-ips-community-suite/content-discovery/activity-streams-r69/)
Nice find! I’ll include that as a resource for this project I’ve been investigating. 👍
> [@Using Discourse as a social media platform](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-social-media-platform/202133):
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> I’ve been pondering about this for a while now, but I’ve finally decided to get it off of my chest. Is Discourse customizable enough to be used as a proper (full-blown) social media platform? I’ve been dipping my toes into the world of start-ups lately. I have my own idea for a social network that combines the best of what brings people together online (more specifically, tech enthusiasts and people in the tech industry as a whole). While observing other social media platforms like Twitter and…
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/5 "2025-03-20T08:11:49Z")
I would love to see this happen, perhaps even fund it if I can pull it off budget-wise.
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### Author:  [@Damian\_Boon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Damian_Boon)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2026, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-plans-to-make-web-stories-for-discourse/213859/6 "2026-09-15T07:55:21Z")
> [@volanar](#):
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> I think personal Activity Streams would be of great value. So that each user can customize Activity Streams for themselves and receive role-based content (Customize your browsing experience that’s unique to you. Sort by unread, author, time period, tags, follows and more).
Is something like this what you mean?
> [@Using Discourse to Build a Blog, Reddit, X or Facebook-Style Scrolling Platform](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-to-build-a-blog-reddit-x-or-facebook-style-scrolling-platform/411945/40):
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> Next to do is Optimise what we’ve built before adding more: Limit cached feed sessions per user so repeated refreshes don’t accumulate six hours of cached lists. Improve category mixing to reduce CPU work on large queues. Measure feed loading time and cache usage. After that comes behaviour tracking: recording genuine impressions, topic opens and reading time. Prefetching must not count as reading. Initially we’d collect those signals without changing the order. Once tracking is re…