Community Extras

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Hello Modx Community!
Are there any extras to create a community section for a website? This might include, user interactions such as message posts for questions and answers, networking, profiles, share files, etc…

I Appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,

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I don’t know of any MODX-native extras that do this. Wish there were! There used to be one, but it never got fully developed and is no longer maintained.

There are various third-party systems people have used along with MODX in the past. I’d be curious to hear what people are using now, especially along with MODX 3.

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That sounds more like a forum software, rather than a CMS feature.
I’d be interested in hearing your use case though, maybe we could make something for you.

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Yes, forum, but could be done through an extra. The old extra was called “Discuss” and added forums directly into MODX. I used it in one site and it worked pretty well at the time. People have had success with VanillaForums (which I did, too), but don’t know if that is still a good option. Discourse seems popular at the moment, and there is an extra to create some integration:
https://extras.modx.com/package/moddiscoursesso?version=1.0.0-pl

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Hello,
Thanks for all that value information. I will check out ModDiscourseSSO as you suggested.

I am looking into Articles streamlines blogging, commenting, archiving, tagging and other features - maybe the latest version can send notifications out -

Thanks!

P.S.
This looks promising!

Thanks a lot!!

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As far as I am aware Articles is not really usable at the moment, commenting and such use Quip which is not working properly. For anything similar I usually use collections and tagger which works well for everything but has no commenting feature.

I think for a proper forum integration Discourse is the best/ most powerful option.

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Thanks a lot for the insights and advice. Discourse will do!

: )