An alternative for providing blog-like functionality, following the direction of Reddit/Twitter/Facebook, but also allowing forum-like structures.

For full instructions, please see docs/en/index.md - or

composer require silverstripe/microblog

A summary of features

• Markdown parsing of content
• Auto-inspection of URLs for OpenGraph / OEmbed ability
• Drag/drop file upload
• @mentions of users
• Threaded replies
• Edit posts in-place
• Can be used for comment/discussion threads on individual pages.
• Notifications (with the silverstripe-australia/notifications module installed)
• Can be configured to resemble a forum, or left as a twitter / facebook style feed of posts
• Create isolated blogs using the MicroBlogPage that allows direct configuring of how posts will appear / can be interacted with
• /timeline provides a site-wide twitter-like stream of posts