discourse-audio-message

A discourse plugin that allows users to directly record and attach audio messages to their posts.

• Add blob: to the content security policy script src in your Discourse admin settings
• Add mp3 to the authorized extensions list in your Discourse admin settings

The plugin adds a microphone button to the post composer UI, through which an audio message can be recorded and attached to the post.

• Add the plugin's repo url to your container's app.yml file

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
          - git clone https://github.com/pbenkoe/discourse-audio-message.git

• Rebuild the container

cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

You can also check out the Official Discourse Documentation on how to install plugins.

Once the audio is uploaded and attached to the post, the preview might not be able to play the audio back, until the post is actually submitted. The short_url is used to attach a link to the uploaded audio in the post, not sure why it only plays back once posted.

This plugin was developed with the help of ChatGPT. I don't have a background in Javascript development, and finding documentation about plugin development for Discourse that goes beyond a basic setup, was rather difficult to find. I'm not sure if best practices are followed here, but the code base might serve as a rudimentary foundation to build upon.

discourse-audio-message is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.