# Wanted: Discourse Hacker News Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wanted-discourse-hacker-news-plugin/37620
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wanted-discourse-hacker-news-plugin/37620 "2016-01-08T03:06:57Z")
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### Author: ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wanted-discourse-hacker-news-plugin/37620/14 "2016-04-30T11:32:13Z")

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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 what you would need to do.

Currently, the like button is created within the widget for the post-menu. And since the like button has multiple actions tied to it, extracting it out of that widget isn’t a simple task. This is especially true when you account for those actions only being available from child widgets, which you can’t create from a plugin. So you would have to recreate the necessary actions and duplicate code.

As a community manager, my recommendation would be to sit tight and wait for plugins to be able to do this.

As a plugin author and contributor, I would ask if it’s possible to break the buttons in the post-menu out into their own widgets. I don’t think that would be too difficult and could likely lead to a lot of flexibility in authoring plugins.

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