# Shared topics between multiple discourse instances

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-topics-between-multiple-discourse-instances/67528>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-topics-between-multiple-discourse-instances/67528 "2017-08-05T16:32:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjdrost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rjdrost/32/248216_2.png) [@rjdrost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rjdrost)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-topics-between-multiple-discourse-instances/67528/14 "2022-01-31T18:05:48Z")

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Thanks for reviving this thread @oshyan! I’d also like to see if there has been any further thought in the Discourse community or team about allowing forums to decide on topics that they’d like to share.

I read through and appreciate the issues that @j.jaffeux raised on the technical, and admin/moderation side. So I see that it’s not something that would be ideal to make too regular or a core feature in discourse platform. Still, I work in a space where the suggestion of using internet principles and having the single tip of conversation point to one forum at a time wouldn’t work that well.

Hence, I’m wondering whether there may be a lower-tech solution that two forums could apply here, where each administrator creates an account for forwarding responses to the other forum and sets a bot to forward and respond with a quoted (i.e. with the user name + plus the original post markdown from the other forum) response in the linked topics/posts. Yes, the timestamps won’t be perfect as that depends on the servers’ and bots’ latencies and policies, but it will have the eventual inclusion of all responses.

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