# Synch topic across forums
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 2, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669 "2018-02-02T20:45:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@anon61128213](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon61128213)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/1 "2018-02-02T20:45:11Z")
Maybe this is just hopeful dreaming, but wouldn’t it be cool if two communities that both have a discourse forum could have a shared topic that is automatically synced between both forums so they can discuss a collaboration effort or similar together without everybody having to create an account to the other forum?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/2 "2018-02-02T21:47:11Z")
Oh @eviltrout and I have talked about this a few times over the past 5 years, I really like the idea, but it is pretty complex to get right, would have to be a plugin.
A lot of the mechanics are already in place. Staged users, web hooks. So this is now far more straightforward than it ever was.
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### Author:  [@anon61128213](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon61128213)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/3 "2018-02-03T08:15:26Z")
Thanks for the answer. 🙂
So does that mean there is a realistic chance that this will be a core-plugin within the next… well less than another 5 years, or does that mean I’d have to ask someone in the #Marketplace to develop this plugin and pay them?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/4 "2018-02-03T09:15:23Z")
If you want it within any kind of predictable time frame then #Marketplace is definitely the place to go. That said, doing this in a non-hacky, future-proof way would easily cost in the tens of thousands.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/5 "2018-02-03T09:33:38Z")
And if you can’t set up a trust relationship between the two forums, you end up with Remote Attestation problems (not a solvable problem, despite what Intel’s marketing department is saying)…
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### Author:  [@anon61128213](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon61128213)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synch-topic-across-forums/79669/6 "2018-02-03T10:12:57Z")
> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> would easily cost in the tens of thousands.
Ok, that rules that out. I think I’ll rather be patient. 🙂