We’ve just rolled out a new feature on Planet GNOME to bring our community discussions together! You can now opt in to automatically create a topic on discourse.gnome.org whenever you publish a new blog post.
Having comments centralized on Discourse makes it much easier for readers to discuss your posts, while also ensuring that all interactions are moderated under the GNOME Code of Conduct for a safer, healthier space. It is also a great way to give your content a bit more visibility with the active Discourse community without any extra manual work.
This is especially handy if you run a statically generated blog without an existing comment section, giving your readers a dedicated space to share feedback.
This feature is completely opt-in, so nothing will change for your feed unless you choose to turn it on. To get started, simply send a merge-request to Planet GNOME adding discourse_comments=1 to your blog entry in our config.ini file.
For this to work, I got the Planet’s static generator to produce a custom RSS feed for the blogs that flag the discourse_comments property. Then, Emmanuele Bassi configured our Discourse instance with the RSS Polling plugin, which creates a topic for each RSS feed entry.
Since this is brand new, there might still be a few rough edges. If anything breaks or acts weird when you try it out, let us know and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.
Happy blogging!