This is a topic. It is a board because it has a board tag. It’s supposed to look something like this (and if that’s not a board, then you can reply to this to say so, I think–but other times, it might make sense to just edit what’s here since admins can edit everything)
Stuff can reply-as-linked-topic with a tag from the #board-model-tags tag group and (maybe?) it’ll be included as a “pin”?
Well, darn. It looks like we might need a plugin after all. These links (that are below, these are a picture of them)
are produced by this JSON:
And we need those to have the tag that puts them in the appropriate “Folder”. But if right now we pretend that we do have that available and could style them accordingly with CSS, we’re getting pretty close.
OK, so maybe what is in the mobile device image above is what in Discourse parlance is a topic-view, like these:
A group would control what topics were in that category (This way were back to the every-group-gets-at-least-one-but-probably-several-categories model). They might have Published, under-review and submitted as their subcategories, which published visible by all, allowing replies, but not new topics–or maybe they’d all have those permissions. Maybe stuff could be submitted to a group (I want to post something on Important-Person’s section, I’d post it publicly and then @mention that group or user that could then be allowed to move it to their category (I need to check on how those permissions would work. There might need to be a “submissions” category that allows everyone to post if a group wants to accept content from non-members.
And when you visit the topic itself, you see what you see at https://root.grouply.org/t/my-first-board-that-might-just-be-bored/65, but when you visit a category, you’ll see something like the cellphone view
Connecting with a topic that does not link to us
So, now I want to talk about This is something that I said about my board, but I didn't link to it in this topic, which mentions but does not link to this thing. Linking it here will at least include a link on the one that I linked to. I’m not sure about here. Well, darn. You can tell over there, that I linked to it:
So this is sort-of a bit backward – I can’t decide here what resources to include here
–under this idea, what makes something get included in the link list that is automatically generated is the other topic linking to this one. That’s a little bit OK (maybe we have control over all of the resources/topics that we want to be included herre), but a little bad (what if some bad actor links to us and we don’t want to acknowledge that in our automatically generated link list?) That essentially gives them free rights to advertise their opinion on our board.
So we’ll need some more infrastructure to approve which topics linking to us we want to have included in that list. But I was already going to have a plugin that added to the link_counts serializer the board-response tag, so I guess it’s not so bad to also add an approved that would be added. . . somehow–maybe approve only topics created by our members? Maybe each group will have a tag that only they could apply
What about making reply-as-linked-topic easier?
It won’t be hard to add a reply-as-linked-topic button next to the reply button, but also, it’s not really magic, any topic that includes a link to this one will be included in that auto-generated list.
