i run a site called grouphug.us. on it, people read anonymous confessions from other users. a long-requested feature is to have discussions on these confessions. i've never had the time or resources (the site is ad-free, revenue free) to build a discussion system but vanilla is just gorgeous enough to work. i'd love to be able to have a discussion created with one press of a button on the existing site by any user, adding a topic title and comment. can this be done with an extension?
I guess he wants a button, and if clicked it either takes the user to the discussion, or automatically creates it then goes to the discussion based on the title of the article they were reading...
I suppose like, you would just make the forum variables being passed match exactly the form variables in the php file that creates a new post... that'd work fine.. then you would just have to write some code on your end to search the database and see if that already exists.
I think it would be more coding in your pages than in Vanilla.