We've touched on this in other discussions, but I wanted to start a dedicated thread for this as I believe it is important. I've been thinking during my travels this year how it would be great if ST had a social media feed-like function that allowed the posting of pictures, quick/short thoughts, in-the-field reports and the like that aren't fit for a thread. Something that other users could reply to in an attached discussion much like Twitter and Facebook. Discord accomplished that to some degree, but the problem with that is that it was a hidden and separate platform that wasn't connected in any way with the main site.

I did some preliminary searching on this and it does not appear that Xenforo has a plugin that does this yet, though there is a long thread on their support forums that expresses the same desire:


If anyone knows or comes across something like this, it would be nice to see if it's a possibility. I had success using Upwork to hire programmers for the LCR icy road risk script, so that might be an avenue to possibly build or tweak something that already exists. There may be something like a chat plugin that allows threaded discussions that can be styled/themed to look like a social media feed that would be intuitive for everyone to use.

I would be willing to donate toward the cost of licensing or developing this if Jeff and others agree.