Using Discourse to power comments in an event system or blog?

Andy - I am interested in this effort and may be able to help; I definitely want to join this conversation. I have a similar need to provide the means to create ‘conversations’ that are topical within the Street Medicine community in a ‘forum’ like manner. I want to create a ‘watercooler’ where Street Medicine practitioners come to discuss best practices, ask questions, get help from fellow Street Medicine practitioners.

Question: is there a group of folks that are putting their heads together to solve this need?

We joined up with @syl who has been doing the leg work on a solution.

Is it a good time for more people to join in Sylvain?

Sure, any help is welcome.
@rayjnorris, you can have a look at this page to see the first prototype.

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I have just had a look but I get >

Docuss - Error in website JSON file

Failed to load https://sylque.github.io/dcs-client/demos/mustacchio/dcs-website.json

are you still working on this?

Will it be possible to have the comment in a sidebar as on https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/20/europe-takes-another-step-towards-copyright-pre-filters-for-user-generated-content/ instead below a text?

This is strange, everything looks fine on my side. Would you please give me the names of your OS, browser and ad-blocker(s) please?

Yes I do.

The current version of Docuss looks very much like your TechCrunch link. Would you please detail what you want different? Thanks.

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my mistake, forgot to check the NoScrip Firefox add-on, works now :slight_smile:

look great may a cleaner/flatter interface would be prefered sometimes, can you use used-as-commenting-system styles to discourse when it is displayed in the sidebar?

Yes you can. When displaying the sidebar, some Docuss classes are added to the <html> tag, so that you can override all Discourse classes with sidebar-specific versions.

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(在此回复,因为该主题今天被自动顶了起来。重新审视 Discourse 驱动的评论系统的想法已经在我脑海中萦绕了一段时间了。)

有趣的是,这个话题是由 Disqus 的更改引起的。Meta 最近宣布将开始屏蔽加拿大新闻文章的链接,这让我思考是否可以使用 Discourse 作为加拿大新闻网站的评论系统。

我不会惊讶于加拿大政府与大型科技公司(目前是 Meta 和 Google)之间的争端得到解决,但我敢肯定,这让加拿大新闻机构在多大程度上依赖 Facebook 进行了思考。例如,我的当地报纸的评论系统是由Facebook Comments驱动的。按目前情况,他们的评论系统将在未来 6 个月内失效。

我认为使用 Discourse 替代 Facebook 类评论系统存在两个潜在问题:

第一个是Discourse 在点击嵌入式主题上的“显示完整帖子”按钮时,对拉取外部帖子效果不一致。但我相信这可以得到改进。我本周会尝试一下,看看能有什么结果。

第二个问题是,这个话题中的共识似乎是,要使评论系统获得关注,用户需要能够直接在帖子下发表评论,而无需访问 Discourse 主题。在我设想的基于 Discourse 的评论系统中,“最佳”回复将显示在新闻文章上,但用户将被迫(尽可能无缝地)登录到相关的 Discourse 论坛才能发表评论。这既是出于技术原因,也是因为 Discourse 提供了审核和社区建设工具,可以用来防止评论系统变成垃圾场。

有人对这是否可行有什么看法,或者有任何功能类似的评论系统示例吗?我在这里猜测用户行为。对文章发表评论的一些摩擦似乎是件好事,但也许在发表评论之前创建 Discourse 账户会造成太大的摩擦。

加拿大政府与大型科技公司之间争端的公开原因是,科技平台赚了很多钱,而新闻机构却在为他们的工作争取报酬方面苦苦挣扎。理想情况下,由 Discourse 驱动的评论系统将为新闻机构提供某种创收方式——无论是通过订阅、广告,还是两者兼而有之。

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我们仍然成功地使用 Docus,它允许 Discourse 为其他网站上的讨论提供支持。

对于您的用例,唯一真正的问题是用户需要访问您的网站,然后导航到他们想要评论的网站。

我可以看到通过将项目呈现为“Discourse 评论”网络浏览器来解决这个问题,这样用户就会感觉他们只是像往常一样浏览网页,但能够评论他们访问的任何网站并与他们选择的 Discourse 群组讨论。

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