Embed Discourse as a full comment system on your site

[Falco]

@JimCanto

I’m fairly new to Discourse, so forgive my ignorance. Is this feature designed to compete directly with services such as Disqus? I get the sense it’s something different, but am unable to grasp the full context just yet.

Yes, and it has replaced what Disqus was in at least a site already.

With it, anyone can use Discourse, and even at our free plan, to host a comment system for their site, and keep full control of the data, appearance, extensibility, etc.

@JimCanto

FYI, I’m bringing Discourse into my day job as our private, members-only online community using SSO via our membership management system. We also have a blog and I’m wondering if I can find a use for this feature which could attract new members without allowing anonymous comments.

That is the exact use case we had in mind when creating it!

@JimCanto

I sense lots of possibilities with this feature, but can’t grasp the full potential just yet. Looking forward to the feedback from the team and the community here.

You actually hit the nail on the head here, I do recommend going to a recent blog post in our blog, like Discourse is Not Going Closed Source and checking it live now.

[Brach (Brian Coughlin)]

Does this create a new topic if non existed … so if we have a post or page and we enable comments do we have to manually set up the forum post before hand or will it create on first use?

[putty]

@Discourse

If you set this up correctly, the first time you visit http://example.com/blog/entry-123.html it will try to load comments for the blog post. Since there are none, it will tell the Discourse forum to create a new topic in the background. A new topic will be created by eviltrout and the contents of the first post will be crawled from your blog and the text will be extracted automatically.

Here is the full documentation on it

[Falco]

Yes, it auto-creates the topic on the first visit the post or page receives.