paully21 is seeking a developer to create an OmniAuth strategy for an ASP.NET site to authenticate users in Discourse without requiring a username and password. They are willing to pay for the work and have a deadline of about a month. codinghorror inquired about the timeline, and paully21 expressed interest in finding a solution that might benefit others with similar .NET integrations. riking suggested contacting michaeld for assistance with the integration and importing data from the old forum. michaeld offered to help with the integration, despite limited .NET experience, and later agreed to discuss importing data from the old forum with paully21 via a private message.
I am really in a bind. I persuaded a client with an ASP.NET MVC site that Discourse was the best option to replace their mailing lists and discussion forum (both are horrible).
Now I need to figure out how to allow users from their site to authenticate without having to enter a username and password in Discourse.
I’m willing to pay.
What is your timeline?
Like a month (at most…Sooner is always better :))…I need time to import the data (in a very basic form) from the old forum.
I really think I won’t be the only person doing this sort of integration. I heard about Discourse on all the many .NET podcasts.
I know that @michaeld has done several forum imports, and several SSO setups. Maybe you should talk to him?
Yeah, we can do that @paully21, you can send a PM to discuss if you want. We don’t have any solid .NET experience though but the amount of modifications on the .NET site shouldn’t be very large.
Thanks @michaeld and @riking for your suggestions. I have had a PM conversation that I believe is going to get me going on this.
But, @michaeld, I would be interested in some help to do the importing from the old forum (once this user issue is sorted). Obviously, I would pay you for your time.
I’ll PM you if that is okay.
Of course, just drop me a message.