Enabling participation in an online community using visual machine-readable symbols

摘要

A facility for coordinating an online discussion is described. The facility receives an indication that a user has captured a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier that identifies a particular online discussion. In response, the facility incorporates into an online forum that hosts this online discussion an indication that this user captured a symbol encoding an identifier that identifies this online discussion.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
capturing, by a device of a user, an image of a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier, the identifier identifying a locale associated with the machine-readable symbol; processing the captured image to discern the identifier encoded into the machine-readable symbol; presenting for display on the device an interface for receiving content from the user relating to the locale associated with the machine-readable symbol; and receiving, from the user at the device, content relating to the locale.