# Integrating Discourse with a larger social network app?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-discourse-with-a-larger-social-network-app/38993>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [3 فبراير 2016، 8:45م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-discourse-with-a-larger-social-network-app/38993 "2016-02-03T20:45:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Talin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/talin/32/121928_2.png) [@Talin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Talin)\
**Post date:** [3 فبراير 2016، 9:35م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-discourse-with-a-larger-social-network-app/38993/3 "2016-02-03T21:35:23Z")

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Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I didn’t realize you could quote from other threads, that looks very promising.

I don’t think we actually want to “embed” Discourse into another site - rather, Discourse would be a full, top-level sibling along with a bunch of other separate apps (most of which are written in Meteor/JS with a MongoDB backend), with some minimal amount of integration between them.

I’m thinking of something along these lines:

- Users can belong to one or more collaborations (or “group” if you prefer).
- Each collaboration can have multiple topics.
- Members of a collaboration can view existing topics or create new ones.
- Topics can be sent to more than one collaboration as well as to private individuals.

So that data model is a bit different than what you were describing.

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