Loomio
Tue 15 Jul 2014 9:12PM

Embeddable discussions and voting

BH Bob Haugen Public Seen by 104

Something like Disqus.
https://disqus.com/admin/universalcode/

If you did this, I would immediately use it in https://github.com/valnet/valuenetwork

We would connect discussions to particular objects on their own Web pages, and decisions to some page that is about governance.

I don't know if the crew actually wants to do this, but we feel like you are kindred in some undefinable way and so would rather use Loomio than Disqus. Or we could roll our own, but it would not be as good.

I've seen feature requests to use Discourse for Loomio discussions, but as far as I know, Discourse is more like forums than discussion about, and connected to, particular small topics like this design or prototype or contribution, which Disqus is designed to do.

BH

Bob Haugen Thu 8 Oct 2015 1:00PM

@strypey - federated identity is a desired goal. If Loomio implements Persona, we would be happy to follow their lead if and when we get embedded Loomio discussions.

DS

Danyl Strype Fri 9 Oct 2015 10:27AM

I would say that of three features @bobhaugen describes, the second two are options for implementing the second of the two features I listed. Interesting that the discussion is higher priority for you than the ability to take positions on proposals. The main stumbling block I can see, as I described above, is identity management. The good news @bobhaugen is that Loomio has already implemented Persona. Next time you login to Loomio, have a look under the 'login using Google' and 'login using FarceBook' buttons.

BH

Bob Haugen Fri 9 Oct 2015 12:01PM

Here are a couple of example situations:

  1. Somebody logs 350 hours on a task. (This actually happened.) Somebody else comments, "Is that a mistake, or did that really take 350 hours?". The original logger says, "No, shd have been 3.5 hours, I changed it."

  2. Somebody posts a design for a prototype. Lots of people comment with pluses and minuses and suggested changes. Finally, somebody makes a proposal to accept or reject this design. It's rejected, with comments that suggest some modification that would make it acceptable. More discussion ensues, with more changes to the design, followed by another proposal that is accepted.

NZ

Novica Zivkovic Thu 8 Oct 2015 2:42PM

iLike this

Z

zack Thu 8 Oct 2015 7:30PM

I also like this. So many news articles raise discussions which would be great to be hosted by Loomio and lead to proposals. But since the newspapers and Loomio are separated this doesn't happen since people are inclined to comment and get involved in the 'place' where it started even if it's virtual. In my view embeddable discussion pages would be popular.

JR

Jon Richter Sat 31 Oct 2015 1:47PM

There are at least Isso and Hypothesis, who provide embeddable discussions. Discourse also does so for articles provided by one RSS stream.

I've linked them just 10 hours ago from https://github.com/hackers4peace/plp-docs/issues/21#issuecomment-152690396.

@strypey Thanks for the blog link.

JG

Jacob Gadikian Sun 8 Nov 2015 10:13AM

This is awesome and would nearly certainly increase the user base and awareness of loomio in general.

GC

Greg Cassel Sun 6 Dec 2015 7:41AM

Still super interested in this, especially for modular organizational concepts like Open App Ecosystem and Collaborative Technology Alliance. Updates would be appreciated whenever possible!