Feature Requests

@nik This was the board I tested it on. 😆 I'm not sure if @julian can shed some light on this as something isn't right with your experience and I'm not sure what would cause these things to happen. It's not your build of NodeBB, it's not one browser or the other as it happens on both Desktop & Mobile, the only thing left is your internet connection, but I don't know whether xhr-polling or websocket issues would cause it.

That menu system is sick!

@dylenbrivera said:

If the end result sidebar looks like latimes, hell yes! 👯

You should be able to customize that yourself by changing the colors. 🙂

@Ezra-Sharp gh#1299

@a_5mith For what it's worth, I really like your suggestion, a lot. +100.

@a_5mith no problem 🙂 this is just an idea for a feature...

@julian

.header .header-topic-title { display:none; }

??? 😆

But in all seriousness, it seems like something that wouldn't really be missed. On mobile you only see 14 characters of a title anyway, and on desktop you've got the title of the topic in the tab, and on the address bar. Plus in terms of SEO, it doesn't really help nor hinder as it only appears when you've scrolled down the page, so the SEO would come from the title being to the right of the avatar, or even from the breadcrumbs.

@julian It's a bit of a roundabout way of creating them, but it works.

Q & A while registration

Account registration approval

Ask a question with option to choose category.

I know these has been discussed before. Just wanted to have it in a thread as these are a bit important these days due to spam attack.

@psychobunny said:

You mean like this? https://community.nodebb.org/user/林林林林林

Most forums have figured that problem out already like this.

You could indeed just disallow non-English characters, but considering there's even non-English TLDs, that might be a bit too Web 2.0 ("Web 2.0" meaning "overused buzzword" as well as "far, far into the past")
As long as your letter-to-image thingmajicky supports unicode, there shouldn't really be any problem. Though if some essential piece of core technology for some reason doesn't, you could always just store it as punycode. (that's how they got IDNs to work for domain names)

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@helltux Pretty much whatever you might need, it should allow you to set an open board and allow anyone to post to it, or create groups of users (think friends list) whom can then have their own board and all that sort of stuff. Anythings possible really.

Yeah I agree, maybe we could move pagination into the post bar:

That would make it not look too bad since its the same on the top and bottom

Check https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/1242#issuecomment-44319519

@julian That would be awesome, Julian. As @KnownSyntax said, it is simple things like that that makes it easier to present NodeBB as a solution to other moderators and users. The engine is already head and shoulders above rest.

@markkus No prob.

I've seen some demand for this as of late. It would be a pretty massive overhaul so I can't promise you a definite timeline on this as we have a ton of other things to get out for 0.5x next month, but will keep it in mind in future 🙂

I got this idea from Google Plus community. Can we have a button called " Ask a Question " like in Q&A scripts and it will take you to a page where you can post your questions and just like tags, a column with drop down menu to select category. Makes it more simple.

We'd probably have to roll our own upgrade script that calls npm install with a version number. npm upgrade is too risky, since it downloads the latest version of a module, irrespective of any configured versioning in your package.json.

Our themes and plugins aren't comparible with older versions, so they might end up installing a version that is too new and break their forum...

@meetdilip said:

Does is slow down page loading ? It is already at 6 seconds.

Hmm, 6 seconds isn't good nor is it bad. Where are you getting this number by the way?

So yeah, it just depends really on what you're trying to accomplish. If you optimize delivery by compressing the image and using a CDN service (optional), you should be okay. Make sure the image isn't huge or more than 2000px in size. Remember the larger the image, the longer it takes for the end user to download.