Is there a "Reply to View" plugin for Discourse?

[Lilly]

Not sure if these might help with your idea or use-case (or as an alternative), but there are also a gated topics in categories component, and a guest gate component:

Gated Topics in Category

Summary Gated Topics in Category allows site admins to show a login prompt that covers the topic contents in specific categories or tags to encourage readers to sign up and log in. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator (view in an incognito window) Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gated-topics-in-category New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this the…

Guest Gate Theme Component

Hello This theme component is created from Guest Gate (Sign Up Popup Plugin). It can lock topics for anon visitors with a modal and force them to Sign Up or Login. The component can be use for an alert modal, encouraging visitors to sign up but allowing them to close the modal (for this, leave the dismissable false setting unchecked). Options include changing the number of topics that can be viewed before the modal is displayed. [Screenshot 2022-04-23 at 22.05.29] Tip: If you use the …