Reverse proxy solution?
Hi, I am in charge of a new project of mirroring our Discord to the web, my company would like to use this actively and also develop some features for our own use, mainly to change the frontend styling. The minimum standard we have though is being able to use a reverse proxy or host our community at:
ourwebsite.com/community. This is a real must-have for us. A subdomain does not cut it for our site map and business model. Is this possible at all, even for a direct cash feature incentive to get it done quickly?
If this isn't possible, can we self-host this and do it ourselves? We'd really rather avoid this solution so Answer Overflow doesn't get ahead of us and so we aren't spending time on maintaining another service ourselves.
Some background: We just went through this with Linen.dev but hit a brick wall where they just weren't willing to let us use our own custom .css/javascript in the page. We just wanted to add some very simple changes (eg. show how many users are online) but they wouldn't give us any access. We've wasted a ton of time with them. So I would appreciate if you'd get back to us asap if this sounds okay as we've already spent a lot of time.
Theoretically our best case is you and us would work together to get this URL path supported. Then we'd outline the features/etc. that we need to build into it.
If you are open to discussion at all, please give me an email contact or drop me a line at: discord.disinfect255@passmail.net15 Replies
@Rhys
Hey, I should be able to support it give me a week or two to find time
Where are your domains nameservers set to, Cloudflare, AWS, Vercel, or something else?
No cash is needed, but I do have a GitHub sponsors account which if you wanted to show appreciation for it being shipped (once it’s done) would be appreciated https://github.com/sponsors/rhyssullivan
@Rhys We use Cloudflare mate!
Just to clarify what exactly would you be able to support within the week?
We outright offered Linen a large lump sum to do this (in addition to their $400 a month cost) for us but they would not give us custom .css/js at all. Even though they did agree to a few other things. So we are at a complete brick wall with them...
Nice that makes life easier
Can support hosting your content on a subpath this weekend, you should add the bot to your server now to start getting content indexed you don't have to make it public yet
Custom JS / CSS should also be possible, let me know what you need there
The setup is essentially going to be what https://mintlify.com/docs/advanced/subpath/cloudflare tells you to do
We basically just need the ability to eg. add our own JS / CSS eg. to show how many users are online and so on.
We'd just like to add a few small things. All our guys are super talented at frontend/backend and can whip stuff up for us pretty quickly. It's more that you'd give us the ability to do that without outright forbidding it.
Yeah that's fine by me
We're also of course happy to submit it all as PRs if you want to implement it but basically we'd like to actively develop it to our needs.
One other thing, at the moment it seems set up mostly for help channels. Is there no way to index the entire Discord server? (Provided it isn't too large)
You can select all the channels you want to get indexed - only thing is it only really does thread content
Non thread content doesn't index well
Right okay thanks!
I will pass this back on to the team. I think we would be super happy to use and support this!
Ok one of my leads got back to me "What does he mean that non-thread content does not index well?"
@Rhys
Like if you have a regular text channel there’s no good way to chunk the content
So you create a bunch of pages trying to figure out good chunking points but it just spams your site with pages and Google doesn’t like it
Causing them to index / show less of your good content
Ok thanks this sounds fine. We'd theoretically like to index our entire Discord as we have useful chats all over server but if that doesn't make sense then indexing at least the 10 or so "threads" channels we have I think would be a great start.
My other main question is, would it be difficult for us to change the way the servers are displayed on Answer Overflow? Currently they are horizontal at the top. We'd like to display them vertically on the left-hand side so it looks a bit more like Discord.
Other than that we'd add like a "xxx users online" plugin, maybe change the colour and stlying a bit. Move the site-map so it is more accessible (not at the bottom) and implenent one or two more things in the right-hand sidebar.
The goal essentially would be for the "SEO juice" but also so users feel like they would ultimately want to join our Discord server to ask and answer questions.
@Rhys
Hey @Rhys did this make any progress over the weekend?
Hey sorry haven't had time to yet, will come back here
Thank you so much 🙏 you're an angel. I'm in a meeting right now with our company and we're jumping for joy over this and the displaying of normal banter. We all just started cheering when I said you answered me on this already whilst we're in the meeting.
Please let me know if there's anything you need on my side.