I’m convinced that my current project should feature Discourse (through a community install - how cool is this option?). The forums will be members only and content closed to the public.
But there’s something stopping me.
Part of the planned community/forum is a file management system. A place where users can upload certain documents, and ideally edit some of them in a collaborative manner.
I want to focus on the forum experience, so that aspect is taken care off by Discourse. The following Wordpress theme caught my attention (because of file management/closed intranet).
Regardless of WordPress theme… what would you recommend for a document storage and editing inside the forum? A Google Drive plugin was suggested by a colleague, but figure it’s best to ask the Discourse community.
I don’t think a WordPress theme with Buddypress will offer anything better than WordPress+Discourse, especially for a “file management system.” Stick with Discourse for forum features as a more robust and supported enterprise, open source solution.
Document collaboration is hard for a forum platform like Discourse. Would be nice to see features like sort by title within categories. Could work if all your docs were in Markdown + wiki features.