Using Discourse as a social media platform

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@merefield

Personally I think Discourse is designed for small to medium-sized discrete instances, not MASSIVE scale.

I know of one Discourse instance that is massive, so maybe not?

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@awesomerobot

what does this achieve? is it about familiarity with mainstream social media? does it make things easier to use?

Instead of tapping/clicking into the post, it’s one less tap/click. I do like how Twitter does it, but it isn’t about familiarity to me.

@JammyDodger

Throwing in a curveball… How about the large-scale version being some kind of ‘Discourse Directory’, which collated lots of different Discourse forums together. From there you could dip into all manner of subject matter, discussed in a more in depth way than regular social media, and then zoom back out and browse something totally different.

It’d also be useful for people interested in Discourse itself, as there’d be lots of examples to help visualise what’s possible/achievable /missing/etc.

The closest thing you’ll find is this: Websites using Discourse

@JammyDodger

Absolutely no idea if this is nonsense, but it’s what the question made me think of and I thought I’d share.

It seems like an awesome idea (and it definitely isn’t nonsense)! Go for it!