# Synchronising/Crossposting topics across different Discourse sites

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/synchronising-crossposting-topics-across-different-discourse-sites/263269>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 29, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synchronising-crossposting-topics-across-different-discourse-sites/263269 "2023-04-29T18:21:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/synchronising-crossposting-topics-across-different-discourse-sites/263269/9 "2024-01-13T12:35:09Z")

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There is a rails way to encrypt a single field. That’s what I did in my dashboard.

See [Active Record Encryption — Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_encryption.html)

Having both polling and webhooks seems redundant. I think I’d chose one approach.

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