The discussion revolves around the share-ability of content into the DiscourseHub iOS app. mentalstring reported issues with sharing images, URLs, and text from Safari and Photos, receiving a “Could not load that URL” error message.
pmusaraj explained that the app currently supports sharing URLs of forums already added to the app, allowing users to launch those URLs within the app instead of using Safari or other browsers. However, sharing text and images is not yet implemented, but it’s a planned feature for future development.
This feature addition has garnered interest and support from users like helmi and jimkleiber, who believe it would greatly enhance mobile usability, especially for creating topics and chat messages.
On iOS, when on the share sheet of some app, DiscourseHub appears as one of the options, but I’m not sure if it is working?
On Safari I have tried to share an image (long press shortcut) and a page URL but both failed with a “Could not load that URL” error message on DiscourseHub.
Also tried sharing a photo directly from Photos but while DiscourseHub shows for half a second on the screen, nothing else happens as far as I can see. The same happens when trying to share selected text.
What should be sharable into the DiscourseHub? Or is this not intended?
Currently you can share URLs of forums that are already added to the app, as a way of launching that url on the app. An example use case would be long-pressing a link in an email to open it in the app instead of Safari or the in-app browser of some email clients (Gmail for example).
We would like to add support for text/images to be shared with the app so it can be used in posting, but that isn’t implemented yet.
I would love to see this as well. I imagine many of my users will be using mobile devices and I think the ability to click the share menu and then add that info to create a topic or especially a chat message will make mobile usability so much smoother.