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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Idea: embedded discussions on third-party websites.

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2nd of 2 versions

Option 2: an embed code is shown on your profile, with a page-url attribute you fill in. That’s the page where you place the code. The first time someone posts a comment, the associated discussion is created. Instead of a title, the discussion gets assigned the URL. That way, people seeing the discussion on V can open the URL for context.

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Extend the existing Discussion model to have a nullable embed_url. An embedded discussion would not have a title.

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Option 1: when you create a discussion, an embed code is shown, which you can paste anywhere.

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That would mean people couldn’t programmatically use embed codes, like on their blogs. They would always have to manually go into V and create a discussion first.

Criticism of #4410
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Create an EmbeddedDiscussion model, separate from Discussion.

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That would prevent existing discussions from being embedded on other sites. But why prevent that?

Criticism of #4415
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To keep things simple. This is just an MVP.

Criticism of #4416Criticized1
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But having a separate model isn’t exactly keeping things simple either.

Criticism of #4418