Hello— I’m new and may not have categorized this properly; lmk if I need to re-approach.
I’m thinking of Ghost as a membership site with discussion about the content.
^^ Maybe this is not the intended use and won’t be changed, so here are some of the points I’m looking to solve.
I’d like for members to be optionally notified when there are comments on any post (not only notifying the post creator). If we are talking feature changes, this could be as simple as a badge on the post indicating new comments, and an optional filter to bump unread to the top of the feed… but something more robust would of course be ideal
I’d like to be able to embed and/or have audio replies enabled in the comments.
And direct message options. At least to the site owner but preferably between members, which i know is a huge thing.
All of this and many more helpful features would be available if we integrate Discourse.
We are familiar with it and I will push for this if it’s the best way forward.
But before we commit to that effort, are there other proven options to look into?
I searched and scrolled the forum, and a little on Google and Reddit, mainly for the comment notification piece which may be a dealbreaker and drive us away from Ghost if we don’t solve it.
seeing a lot of people integrating discourse… so maybe that’s the no-brainer — or my newbie search terms might not be returning other options.
Edit to add: this is kind of a “change my mind” request because I’m not finding anything better
If there is, point me in a direction I can share with my team — I’ve roughed in the site and we are nearly ready to go, but we can delay a bit for the right fix
We actually have a custom website with Discourse integrated; it’s just more work than we have time right now.
We use the online version of ghost and are not looking to self-host if I’m using those terms correctly. We are small now but may need to scale. My cohort who helps w coding will jump in here if needed as well
Thanks for any pointers or let me know if something is unclear.
Edit updated Nov 26 - our Ghost is hosted and our current Discourse is self-hosted. We will meet on this today and see if we can move forward with it