Hey Discourse Team We are using Discourse to build a community for our news magazine. Currently, we have a forum for each of our articles. We would like to maintain this feature and also offer a community that is independent of articles. Could you describe how we could use Discourse with an API fo…

[image] user600: we have a forum for each of our articles Do you have a category or topic per article, or is it a full Discourse forum per article?

[image] user600: Additionally, we want to offer users a personal feed similar to a social media stream. How can we do this with Discourse? Which plugin can we use to create this view? There’s not a plugin that can do this yet, we’ve done some experimentation with group-based feeds that are so…

Hi Nate, thanks for your reply. No, we’re still working with outdated software at the moment, namely Phorum. We’d really like to change that, which is why we’re currently looking at Discourse. We find it exciting, but haven’t found this feature yet. Here you can see an example forum of ours: Golem.d…

[image] user600: Currently, we have a forum for each of our articles. We would like to maintain this feature and also offer a community that is independent of articles. Could you describe how we could use Discourse with an API for the article forum? I don’t see an answer to this question here…

How to use Discourse API for article forums and independent community spaces

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manuel (Manuel Kostka) August 29, 2025, 4:21pm 5

Looks similar to how Discourse integrates their blog articles in Blog - Discourse Meta.

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