(Paid) Assistance Setting Up Discourse Community (for Squarespace Website) - Confidential

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I am working to set up a community forum using Discourse which will be integrated into a website hosted on Squarespace, with the domain hosted on the same platform. Experience with Squarespace integration required.

Preferably, seeking someone in the United States or Europe for ease of payment and references. This is a confidential contract, and will require complete discretion, with an NDA.

Needs:

  • Ensure all features on the backend of the forum are appropriately set. I have already started work on all of the basic settings.
  • Assistance with paid memberships for the forum, as well as free memberships in limited circumstances.
  • Ensure that all settings conform with absolute anonymity of community members.
  • Assistance with seeding the forum and other ideas.
  • Assistance with Beta launch.

I do not need assistance with categories, topics, editing or drafting content. I only need the technical behind the scenes expertise of setting up the forum and helping to integrate it into Squarespace.

This should be a contract which requires less than 10 hours for an experienced individual. Please send proposed bids, and 2 examples of non-confidential Discourse communities you have worked on in the past.

Veteran standing strongly preferred, but not required. The mission of this forum involves loved ones of those associated with individuals who are justice involved, and requires an open mind and heart, and discretion.

I would like to target getting this set up by March/April timeframe for Beta launch.

Thank you for any interest you may have in this independent, limited, contractor role.

Michelle

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Hey @Michelle717

I have done a few integration projects over time and can help with this.

My contact details are available on my profile.

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I have one question, since an integration is a means to accomplish something, not a goal by itself.

What does the Squarespace integration aim to accomplish?

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Hi RGJ - it means I am not an expert in integrating a Discourse forum into Squarespace but know that Squarespace is compatible with Discourse. I have a membership page on Squarespace, and the membership would be to become a community member of the Discourse community.

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Thank you. However, this role really needs to be in the United States or Europe. Best wishes.

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Ok, so authentication (single sign on) is what you want to accomplish. Thank you.

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It doesn’t appear to be possible to use Squarespace as an SSO client or server for Discourse. If you’re collecting money with Squarespace, it might be possible to use its API to add users on Discourse to a group to give/remove access, but that’s not immediately clear. Looking at the Zapier integration, it doesn’t look like Zapier knows how to handle anything but form submissions on Squarespace.

The only thing that it’s clear you can do with Squarespace and Discourse is embed Discourse discussions on a Squarespace page, which doesn’t seem like something you’re interested in.

I don’t think that there is any meaningful way to integrate Squarespace with Discourse beyond having the two sites link to each other and have similar color schemes.

Do you plan to use the Discourse subscriptions plugin for paid memberships or something else?

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TL;DR: it is not… :thinking:

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