Integrating Discourse with a larger social network app?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Embedding Discourse into your other apps is pretty easy. See

Embedding Discourse Comments via Javascript

Discourse has the ability to embed the comments from a topic in a remote site using a Javascript API that creates an IFRAME. For an example of this in action, check out Coding Horror’s blog. The blog is run via Ghost but the comments are embedded from his Discourse forum. One important thing to note with this setup is that users have to navigate to your forum to post replies. This is intentional, as we feel that the posting interface on a Discourse forum is currently much richer than what we …

@Talin

some sort of tool that would allow someone to grab excepts and quotes from a lot of different threads and create a publishable artifact,

Discourse does this out of the box. Here’s a snippet from the Emed page. You can click below and it’ll expand, or take you the thread in context.

@eviltrout

How it works

In Discourse, a topic is made up of many posts. When you are embedding Discourse on another site, you are linking a document (blog entry, HTML page, etc.) with a single topic. When people post in that topic, their comments will automatically show up on the page you embedded it in.