Sometimes, I co-author posts with my colleagues, collaboratively writing a draft, and then one of us posts it on Discourse. It would be great if there would be a way to attribute these posts to multiple authors, so that they share the likes received, can all edit the post, etc.
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The discussion addresses the feature request for supporting multiple authors on a single Discourse post. Sebastian_Noack proposes this functionality to allow co-authors to share likes, edit posts collaboratively, and receive proper attribution for jointly written content. pfaffman responds by noting that posts are currently owned by a single user, making significant changes difficult. For attribution, pfaffman suggests manually @mentioning each co-author within the post body. However, sharing likes remains unsolvable with the current architecture. Regarding collaborative editing, making the post a wiki is suggested as a workaround, though this risks allowing unintended edits by other users.
satonotdead later contributes by linking to a newer, more specific discussion on “Discourse Wiki Co-editors” on the meta site. This link provides a potential path for users interested in implementing better collaborative tools, even if the original request for multi-author ownership and shared likes has not been directly addressed in this thread.
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Posts are owned by just one person & there’s little way to change that.
@mention each author in the message itself.
Not much way to solve that.
All you could do is make it a wiki, but then others might also edit the post.
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It’s an old topic and the OP might not read this, but I’m sharing it in case someone else stumbles upon it: