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by sergiotapia 4687 days ago
On Moot: I registered my account because I wanted to integrate Moot on my new website I'm building and when trying to integrate it to a view in Rails:

    `a class="moot" href="#{request.original_url}"> Awesome Startup`
I'm getting an message on the page and no moot forums.

" (moot logo) startup does not exist."

Isn't this like Disqus where I can have commenting threads based on the page?

1 comments

Yes. You can have commenting threads based on the page. The value on the href attribute takes a form

https\://moot.it/i/[forumname]/[an_unique_path]

You'll get the [forumname] from the setup (https://moot.it/setup) and you need to pick an unique path for each of the commenting area. The paths can be designed to fit your site's structure. For example

/blog/2013/august:my-awesome-entry /blog/2013/june:another-blog-post

You can list all comments from any path such as

/blog/2013

The "/i/" part means SEO indexed content. Our servers automatically generate a search engine optimized version of all the comments that are structured according to the path structure. Here is the SEO content for our forums for example

https://moot.it/i/moot

And here are all comments from our release blog entries

https://moot.it/i/moot/blog/release

The way we handle SEO is one of the differences from Disqus.

Here is more information about the paths:

https://moot.it/docs/embedding.html#paths