Using Disqus to power a forum

[megaman821]

Has anyone done this before?

There looks like there would be some api challenges.
* There is no way to say you want to only create a thread not create
or get, so you would have to be careful to avoid name clashes
* When you do create a thread there is no way to put it into a
certain category
* Creating a thread and the first post that go along with it aren't
atomic actions, so error recovery would have to be pretty robust

That said it would be quite attractive to have both user comments in
blogs and forums controlled by a unified system.

[seths]

I'm currently integrating Disqus into vBulletin forums. Each post by
a disqus user is submitted as a "comment".

[megaman821]

That part makes sense. How do you plan to create the thread with the
original post? Or will only the replies be in Disqus?

[seths]

You can use http://groups.google.com/group/disqus-dev/web/api-1-1#thread_by_identifier.
This creates the thread if it's the first time the disqus system has
seen the parameters of this method and will create replies to this
thread otherwise.