My business is ramping up our usage of Discourse, now building “micro communities” within our community—that is, other business units want to do their user-facing operations through Discourse.
As a forcing function, I’m having my team move all of our operations to Discourse, eg:
We have been using Discourse as the main tool for communication, record keeping, research documenting, lab journaling tool for over 4 years.
I will argue that most companies would greatly benefit from having Discourse as their main communication tool rather than Slack & email chains & WhatsApp.
It boils down to this: If you believe there is any value in the conversations between employees for future reflection then you need Discourse.
The simple reason is that channel based instant messaging …
One thing we’re immediately noticing is the need for some improved experiences with chat, namely, a dedicated chat client.
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Heliosurge
May 15, 2024, 3:37pm
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Can you expand a bit on Chat Client?
Discourse has Chat implemented (see admin plugins Chat) you may need to enable it.
What are you looking for the Chat to have?
This is the Official integrated in Core
This plugin maybe of use and is an official plugin.
Here is a 3rdparty plugin that currently supports Telegram with plans to add more later
https://github.com/Lhcfl/discourse-chat-bridge
How to install plugins in Discourse
I’m working on bridging Discourse to other platforms. Currently it only supports Telegram, but I plan to support Matrix, and maybe Discord or QQ in the future, depending on my energy and the support I receive.
This plugin only supports the absolutely latest Discourse…
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Oh yes, we are using the chat client in-browser. We are looking for chat to have a dedicated client that can be installed on the OS, uses native OS notifications, is a separate, standalone application/UI without the forum, etc.
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Heliosurge
May 15, 2024, 5:18pm
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I don’t believe there is a direct chat ap for the Discourse chat plugin.
Which would make this a feature
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Heliosurge
May 15, 2024, 5:26pm
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Jam what about these 3 projects?
Would one of them possibly work towards that end?
Hey there, a while back , we’d scoped out interest in native mobile app experiences for Discourse forum owners/users. Well, over some grueling months of coding and deep dives into the excellent Rails codebase of Discourse, we built the ForumX iOS and Android apps that provide a native mobile experience with push notifications for one or more Discourse forums.
Now, we’d love to sign up forum owners and forum users, and collect feedback so we can prioritize ForumX features before launch.
Discours…
It also mentions Fig & Lexicon as well as the Op’s project
