The discussion revolves around a feature request for permalinks to function as static pages, similar to the Terms of Service page. NemesisRE proposes extending permalinks for topics with an option to show the page in a static format, allowing site owners to meet local and international law requirements.
NemesisRE clarifies that this feature would combine the existing system for static pages and permalinks, making topics publicly visible and removing topic-specific elements. Bas suggests that Discourse already works this way, but NemesisRE explains that the current implementation does not function as desired.
gerhard points out two existing solutions: the Static Pages plugin and adding static content to the About page. However, NemesisRE notes that these are not ideal solutions and reiterates that their suggestion is an idea for a future feature implementation.
Hi there,
with the new upcoming European privacy law and probably similar laws in other countries there are page that need to have information presented in a certain way. Static pages are a solution for that and we already have them but they are defined by the system.
My idea would be to extend permalinks for topics with an option to show the page like “ToS” or “Privacy”, that would combine two systems we already have and give the site owner the freedom to meet all the requirements given by the local or international law.
We would create a topic in the Staff Section, create a permalink with the “static” option and then create a link somewhere on the site for it. The “static” option has to make the topic public visible and remove all the stuff which makes a topic a topic
In the future that feature could be extend with ACL like in categories that way internal only static pages would be possible.
Yeah exactly like this, but I meant that as the example for how it should function. Currently this does not work. If you add a new topic for example “Impress” and create a permalink to yourdiscourse.com/impress instead of showing a layout like that Terms of Service - Discourse Meta it brings you to yourdiscourse.com/t/impress/### with the standard topic layout.
It was probably unclear because english is not my native language… I blame the media or was it my teacher… anyway I hope this clear things up a bit.
I saw both of them but the first did not make sense because we already have everything to make this work in the code we just can’t use it yet. The second is my interim solution until we have a better one, like my suggestion. I didn’t want push this or expected that this is done tomorrow, I just had an idea how this could be solved and wanted share it.
Maybe I should change the title to “Feature idea”, request sounds probably to pushy.
