Hi everyone,
I am building a private Glide app for Stride4ward, a nonprofit supporting adults with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. I am currently using the Explorer plan.
I need help creating a Subscribers Messages and Meetups feature. The goal is a simple, private community feed that works somewhat like a Facebook Group.
Here is what we need:
• Approved subscribers can create a post or local meetup invitation
• A subscriber’s name and profile photo are pulled automatically from their user profile
• Subscribers can add text, photos, and emojis
• Other subscribers can type a comment directly into a bubble underneath the original post
• Comments from multiple users remain connected to that post and display underneath one another
• Users can like or react to posts
• Posts can be filtered or sorted by ZIP code and region
• Only approved subscribers can access the feed
• Administrators can moderate posts, remove inappropriate content, and respond to reports
• Personal home addresses should never be displayed
I currently have one Messages table with a Row ID and Parent Message ID. I created a query to connect replies to the original post. I also tried Glide’s Comments component.
The replies can connect to the original post on a separate detail screen, but that is not the experience we need. Glide moves the user away from the main feed. We want the post, photo, reactions, and “Add a comment” bubble together in the same scrolling feed. Some of our earlier replies also appeared as separate posts until we filtered rows containing a Parent Message ID.
My questions are:
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Can this be built natively in Glide using a Custom Collection, Comments component, relations, and actions?
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Can a Comments component or replies collection be repeated inside every item of a Custom Collection?
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Is there a safe way to submit a comment from each feed card while automatically saving the original post’s Row ID as the Parent Message ID?
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If Glide cannot support nested inline comments, can a custom-coded feed be embedded while still using Glide’s signed-in users and profile data?
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Is there an existing template, integration, or community platform that works well for this type of private subscriber feed?
Accessibility and simplicity are very important. We do not want subscribers to create another account or leave the Stride4ward app to use Slack, Discord, or another complicated platform.
I have attached screenshots of our current Glide setup and an example of the inline experience we are trying to create.
Thank you for any guidance or examples.