User Guide

Partisan Discourse is straightforward to use. But before users can begin interacting with the app, make sure that it's running (see the last step of the developers' quick start guide if you have questions).

Then, users can do the following:

Log into the app. If it's hosted locally (per the developers' quick start guide), then just type 127:0.0.1:8000 into your browser. You should see the following splash page:

User Portal

Click "Sign in with Google" to access the Google OAuth API. Now, you should see this page:

User Portal

Visit the website of any current political news article and paste the URL into the appropriate box at the top of the screen. Click "Go." On the right-hand side of the screen, click on the buttons "Democratic" and "Republican" to classify the article one way or the other.