Eseguire più forum nello stesso dominio?

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È possibile configurare più forum all’interno dello stesso dominio?

Sto lanciando una piattaforma che ospiterà più prodotti, quindi vorrei separare i forum di ciascun prodotto, mantenendo lo stesso dominio.

Grazie!

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A couple possibilities I can think of. Depends if the products are actually related / have lots of overlapping users, vs. if they’re e.g. totally separate user groups but the forums just happen to be owned by the same parent company.

If they’re related, could make sense to have each product as a category, and use subcategories under those. Could use category permissions so only certain people see certain top level product categories.

Or if you want them as totally distinct forums, probably best to install each forum on a separate subdomain. You wouldn’t have to buy extra domain names but each forum would be separately installed on a subdomain so you’d have e.g. product1.maindomain.com, product2.maindomain.com, and product3.maindomain.com. You could add some kind of shared menu if you want them separate but still interlinked in some way.

For more specific advice would be good to have more detail on what exactly you’re looking to do in terms of how these forums relate to each other, who the users are, etc.

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Hi @bts, thanks for the response.

It’s a gaming platform and we will have different games in different languages, so even though some users could overlap on multiple games, we need features such as the “Latest messages”, “Pin Globally” and “Pin Banner” to be exclusive to the forums themselves.

For example, if game 1 is available in language A and game 2 is available in language B, we don’t want global announcements for game 1 to show up in game 2’s forum as it won’t have any relevancy.

That being the case, would this suggestion be the path?

Or if you want them as totally distinct forums, probably best to install each forum on a separate subdomain. You wouldn’t have to buy extra domain names but each forum would be separately installed on a subdomain so you’d have e.g. product1.maindomain.com , product2.maindomain.com , and product3.maindomain.com . You could add some kind of shared menu if you want them separate but still interlinked in some way.

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Do you mean de.yourdomain.com, en.yourdomain.com and so on? (or en.game1.yourdomain.com?) I don’t know how it would even be possible to have forum.yourdomain.com somehow be different if someone is thinking of a different game.

If it’s really language that you care about, you could have one forum and have people join a group to gain access to categories in whatever language (and game) that they like. It’s a bit confusing because they’d have to know to join the right group, but you could conceivably work that out, especially if all categories required group membership. (But if you did that, then Google couldn’t index anything)

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We have experience hosting forums for big game franchises and we recommend doing one instance per locale/game.

Eg:

That way you can scale instance resources according to how popular is each game in each language.

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That is good, but expensive. :wink:

For companies with smaller budgets it might be OK to start with categories for different games, and subcategories for language within the games.

See also How to structure a multilingual community

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Ciao @Falco

Sto leggendo questo vecchio post e sono interessato anche a ospitare qualcosa di simile, ma voglio assicurarmi che l’identità dell’utente sia la stessa su più forum.

Ciò che mi piace del forum Discourse è che le diverse categorie possono apparire nella home page con un’immagine, una descrizione e un elenco di argomenti (più recenti/più popolari) (vista mobile; è possibile farlo anche su desktop? Non vedo tale opzione). Tuttavia, quando si creano sottocategorie e si naviga nella categoria principale, gli argomenti vengono tutti elencati insieme, perdendo l’identità complessiva della categoria, la descrizione e gli argomenti.

La mia domanda è: quale delle seguenti opzioni può essere ospitata in autonomia?

  1. Esiste un tema che permetta alla home page di mostrare: Categoria principale con immagine + descrizione + 5 sottocategorie principali → Sottocategoria con immagine + descrizione + 5 argomenti principali → Elenco degli argomenti
  2. Sito multiplo con lo stesso accesso utente:
    ParentCategoryA.discourse.example.com forum separato dedicato alla Categoria Principale A
    ParentCategoryB.discourse.example.com forum separato dedicato alla Categoria Principale B
  3. Supporto per una pagina del forum con un elenco diverso di categorie:
    discourse.example.com/supercategoryA con tutte le categorie pertinenti alla Super Categoria A
    discourse.example.com/supercategoryB con tutte le categorie pertinenti alla Super Categoria B

Grazie in anticipo

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