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 easi…

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…

Take a look at this thread. There are some golden nuggets in there: [이미지] Doing an AMA using Discourse Community Building Hi mates, In one of my communities, we want to do an AMA (ask me anything). As you know, this is one of the things more interesting …

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. [이미지] 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 cha…

Thanks vinothkannans. Could you explain the notifications bit?

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.

[이미지] Mawi_Raura: I was thinking the public figure’s name can be used as a category so every question for reach particular one is easily seen. This can work, as you see here: [image] It depends how many people you’ll have on, and how many questions they will get.

What is the best way to create an ask me anything website using discourse?

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joebuhlig (Joe Buhlig) 3월 5, 2017, 3:22오전 3

Take a look at this thread. There are some golden nuggets in there:

글		댓글	조회수
Doing an AMA using Discourse Community Building	32	9638	4월 22, 2026
Automatically fill category with topics? "Best of" category? Feature	3	1080	9월 11, 2018
Introduction and question about how to best mark topics as "Answer" Support	2	1120	5월 25, 2021
Category Naming / Site Organization Conventions? Community Building	7	2694	11월 8, 2018
Plugin: Ask me anything or Q&A format (threaded replies) Feature rfc	53	15266	7월 2, 2022

What is the best way to create an ask me anything website using discourse?

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