Badges

trevor

Is it possible to add a generator inside the plugin itself to create badges on the fly?

That would be ideal.

trevor

Oh I just saw @julian's Fiddle, pretty simple.
Okay so even better, I'll tweak that.

So this is scalable in my opinion:
Theres a default badge class for the badges
We should use another class to overwrite this for different badges per name.
And another class name for badge degrees (levels or whatever you'd like to call em). http://jsfiddle.net/3EKz5/3/

EDIT [2]:
So lets tie all of this together and we get a pretty scalable solution: http://jsfiddle.net/3EKz5/4/

EDIT [3]:
Sorry guys, heres the last one here that shows scalability. I opt to use the CSS3 scale in this case as an example.
http://jsfiddle.net/3EKz5/5/

Pheww, that was fun.

julian

Was just throwing ideas out there, but glad to see it's received well. I think HTML+CSS badges would be infinitely more scalable than images (less data xfer as well).

Tanner

I'm really liking the CSS + Font Awesome badges and how they're turning out. Also like the idea of being able to change them on the fly rather than have them be static content. Great work guys!

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I see a facebook badge/icon there.

If there was a badge option for sharing topics on facebook, that would be the first badge of that type I've ever seen. And possibly something that would help spread NodeBB.

Ganzuelo

When I was running bbPress I would assign social badges to those who would like/follow that network..

a_5mith

I think that would be what it would be useful for, share 1 posts/topics for level 1. 10-20 for level 2 and 30+ for level 3 etc. As long as we can create custom ones, I'm happy, not sure how many would have a use for the git one outside of nodebb itself.

esiao

Hello, first post on the forums but that particular subject caught my attention.
I'm currently thinking of rebuilding my forum with some nice and modern software and I have to say that NodeBB is the one that attract me the most atm.
But one of the reasons of changing software is this one, awards database manageable on users. Currently this Invison mod do exactly what I want
http://community.invisionpower.com/files/file/2650-awards-system/

Creating a list of awards with conditions and then going through admin panel to apply them. Even if I think it could be improved with some automatic ones (posts count for example).
It seems like you're going to implement badges in NodeBB but I'm a little concerned cause reading the discussion make me think that you're going to implement some awards to use. And what I'm looking for is more me creating awards and distributing them.
The point of having the numbers of awards displayed over them would be a nice feature would prevent to have a lot of images just for counting awards.

So yeah definitely want to see this going further and leaving my input

julian

@esiao if we were deciding between launching badges with our own hardcoded, or allowing admins to create their own, we'd always choose to give the option to the admins

Going the css/fontawesome route seems pretty solid so far.

esiao

Does that mean that you're going to give some badges creation through fontawesome and CSS letting the Admin create the ones wanted with this ressources or that you're going to create a list of usable badges?
I prefer the idea of letting the Admin décide which badges to use and the ability to add some but really like the idea of using fontawesome to actually create them cause it will work better than images for page load time even if I think for images of that size it's not a big deal.
So yeah waiting to see this implemented.

trevor

Dat new trophyes and Archivemts system.

Ganzuelo

@o9k do you think this will be ready with 0.5?

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@Ganzuelo

That's not the right handle, it's @psychobunny

BTW, nice new composition window! Recently new requests come up (tags, dual compose) and they automagically appear!

Ganzuelo

Lol I don't know what the hell I was thinking