We built a static blog with Discourse as the backend

So, I am still trying to run my first instance of Discourse, but I have been thinking a lot about this, your solution looks much cleaner than everything I could think of so far: https://meta.discourse.org/t/medium-like-articles-creation-for-users/32979/4

2 questions:

  1. I guess you can pull the first comment of each topic that has a specific tag?
  2. How does this play out with media? For instance, do you think it would be possible to integrate full width pictures and pic galleries into this?