# Timeline Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeline-discourse/43503
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 30, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeline-discourse/43503 "2016-04-30T16:30:15Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeline-discourse/43503/5 "2016-05-03T09:10:20Z")

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> [@Pad\_Pors](#):
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> out of curiosity, does this mean that “it’s impossible or very hard to apply changes that results in interacting with a topic in the topic-list-page”?

With enough monkey patching, nothing is impossible 😛 But Discourse is currently not _designed_ for this type of interaction, so no such feature would be particularly pretty on the inside. More on that here:

> [@Wanted: Discourse Hacker News Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wanted-discourse-hacker-news-plugin/37620/14):
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> Hey team! I want to add some information to this thread since I just made an attempt to build a piece of this. Creating the link topic seems to be covered by this plugin: [GitHub - danskdynamit/discourse-links-category · GitHub](https://github.com/danskdynamit/discourse-links-category) What I attempted was the upvote plugin. I found that without a significant amount of duplication of code and monkey-patching, it’s not possible to break out the like button and reuse it elsewhere. In order to add this like/vote button on the topic list, that’s exactly wh…

As for this

> [@PauloBerlitz](#):
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> I wonder if you or someone can help indicate to me some programmer who has performed all the procedures to set up the " timeline " equal to the : [TIDBITS.IO](http://TIDBITS.IO)

Just put up a topic for it in the #Marketplace. If @angus the author of Topic Previews is available for freelance work he certainly seems like a natural first pick 😉

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