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[Mittineague]

@tophee

some kind of forum-to-forum interface

This made me think of the now old “hub” discussions

Revitalizing the Discourse Hub

The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y…

AFAIK, it never really took off and has been abandoned but it may be a starting point for those interested in developing some kind of inter-forum project.