Begin standalone
This page starts with DiscussionBridge for Astro in its standalone full
mode. Discourse Core creates or resolves the ordinary embed topic from this
page’s canonical URL. No DiscussionBridge receiver credential or Bridge Record
is required.
Add The Bridge later
The same page can later enable the receiver-backed fullInteractive mode. The
Astro adapter presents the existing topic identity, and The Bridge adopts it
only when Discourse Core independently confirms that this exact canonical page
already owns the topic.
Preserve the discussion
The upgrade must retain the original topic, replies, and canonical page URL. It must not create a replacement topic or make an arbitrary forum topic claimable by an adapter.
What appears on the forum
This topic began as a standard Discourse Core embed. With Discourse’s default
embed_truncate setting enabled, its forum first post shows an excerpt and a
Show more… control for the complete rendered Astro page. Operators who
disable that setting see the complete imported article immediately.
After adoption, fullInteractive deliberately omits the forum first post from
the comments frame because the source article is already visible above it. The
direct forum topic retains the imported article and its Discourse-controlled
truncate-or-show-all presentation.