Post comments on profiles?

[Saarol]

Hello everyone! Is there a plugin for NodeBB to allow commenting on user's profiles like in XenForo? I'm planning on starting my own NodeBB forum soon, and I want to make sure I don't reinvent the wheel if there's already a plugin that adds that.

[julian]

Hello @Saarol and welcome!

@Saarol said in Post comments on profiles?:

commenting on user's profiles like in XenForo?

That is a good question. For v3 and below, the answer is no.

For v4, the answer is still no, with a caveat.

The upcoming v4 of NodeBB is still in development, but deals mainly with integration of the ActivityPub protocol. That said, part of that functionality included the creation of a "pseudo-category" called "Uncategorized" (docs link).

In and of itself that doesn't mean much to you, but if you were looking to create a plugin for user profile comments, you could use the existing category/topic/post data structure now, without needing to reinvent the wheel. This would likely save you quite a bit of time not having to re-invent data structures, getters/setters, etc.

Just create topics on-demand (or on user creation) to cid -1, save the tid reference in the user hash or something, and just render the topic in their user profile.

[Saarol]

Oh that's super cool! So for v3 I'd just make a category, make it hidden, and use that instead?

[julian]

@Saarol That'd be the easiest way to do it in my opinion. I didn't think of that

[Saarol]

Thank you! I'm super looking forward to figuring this all out!