New blog post: Create the dashboard for a Discourse forum
I wanted to learn about the new integration between Observable and GitHub to automatically deploy a data app.
As the Discourse API is super easy to work with, I decided to create an app with Observable Framework to understand key metrics of the Observable forum:
- 7 years
- 50 monthly active users
- 90% of the questions get replies
Discover how I build the app in the post:
https://blog.rednegra.net/2024/09/26/create-a-discourse-dashboard
@severo This looks great - thanks for sharing!
I've just started trying to blog with Framework, too, and several folks have asked about how to do it on the forum and on GitHub. One feature you might consider adding is commenting. You can add comments using Mastodon, GitHub, and Discourse!
@severo I've got more than hints! I've got two blogs running right now, literally set up in the last couple of weeks:
Mark on Framework uses GitHub Discussions:
https://mcmcclur.observablehq.cloud/mark-on-framework/
Also, the [code is on Github](https://github.com/mcmcclur/MarkOnFramework)
Then, there's this WNCViz Blog for my business, which uses Mastodon for commenting:
Sylvain Lesage
Mark McClure