I’d like to build a website where every week we host a public figure who responds to people’s questions about their work/career.
What is the best way to implement it using discourse? I was thinking the public figure’s name can be used as a category so every question for reach particular one is easily seen.
I think that approach could work, but then you’d end up with about 50 categories being added every year, which would be a lot of categories. That sounds like overkill.
You could just have a single thread/topic for each public figure, and then let the Q&A be done as replies to that topic. Then you’d only need one category for all of them.
Take a look at this thread. There are some golden nuggets in there:
True. However what if, after each topic’s closure,they were to get bundled into one big category such that only active ama’s were visible as topics?
I will use tags instead of categories. So all the topics will be go on Uncategorized with public figure’s tag.
Also I will change the topic template of the Uncategorized category just like below.
Hi @JustinBiber,
Mentioning him will send notification about new topics. And I will keep changing it for every public figure’s change.
By default, Discourse will send notification when someone mentioned you using the username (for example: @Mawi_Raura). So when the topic template having mentioned with username of public figure he will get notification.
This can work, as you see here:
It depends how many people you’ll have on, and how many questions they will get.
