User Forum / community feature

chapapptive · 2024-07-19T19:03:22.417Z

My client would like a forum/community feature for their app. My first thought is to just link to reddit or discord as opposed to building something custom in bubble. The other caveat is the bubble app sits in a webview for iOS and android users. Any suggestions or thoughts? - Thanks! - Chris

Zeroic · 2024-07-19T21:02:00.410Z

If it’s an MVP with a low budget, having a third-party platform for a community makes sense. If the budget is moderate, go for an integration with Discourse. Bubble has an integration:

[New Feature] Discourse SSO Announcements

Hello, We just added a way to use your app as a SSO provider with Discourse. What that means is that your users can use their app’s credentials to login to a forum that you have set up with Discourse, as we do for this forum and your Bubble credentials. You can see this section in the API section of the Settings Tab. You’ll need to add the URL of the forum and the key that you can generate in Discourse. You’ll also need to set things up in the forum as described here. [50 AM] Note that this…

If the budget is high, you can ofc build a custom one in the app itself

gerbertdelangen · 2024-07-20T09:11:52.928Z

@chapapptive, it depends on the requirements. Bubble has everything to build a forum/community feature for your app in couple of hours (or a day) with categories, posts, replies and authorization.

If you need more advanced forum features, you can consider using external options. But those will never have the tight integration which is possible with both the app and the forum built in Bubble.

chapapptive · 2024-07-20T18:15:46.940Z

Thank you for your reply! I appreciate it.

chapapptive · 2024-07-20T18:19:45.951Z

Thank you for your reply! I am going to build something. I’m going to use this video as a guide: " How To Build A Reddit Clone With No-Code Using Bubble" by “Building with Bubble”: https://youtu.be/aFosrFDacpo?si=pgvQ7qG0trm9XsBD