The Plugin Ideas Topic
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Ok here's my list:
- Disable all RSS feeds (self-explanatory)
- Form-to-post plugin (fill out a form and have it automatically make a post in a certain category)
- Subforums (if it's possible to have a category not listed in the main forums section and then only accessible via a top-level category)
- XMPP integration with chat (have the protocol be tied to an XMPP server)
- Group chats
- And more...
Will think of more and will add to this list as time goes on.
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@luke said:
Here's some stuff I'd like to see:
- Follow topics you reply to automatically - I've lost hope of this making it into core, but it's essential imo. It's a basic feature on every forum software I've used except NodeBB.
Not any I've used.
- Homepage as "all topics" view - looks like this is in development
Isn't this possible with the custom homepage and one category?
- The ability to delete a user account but put the email on a blocklist, which would be handy for spammers, because you could delete their content and burn their email address so they can't register again. Not sure if something similar to this exists in the NodeBB antispam plugin.
Wouldn't work, spammers don't use the same email address, they use any host of temporary email suppliers, mailinator, gmx,minutemail + hundreds more.
A better option here would be being able to specify a list of blacklisted email domains.
@Tanner said:
Ok here's my list:
- Disable all RSS feeds (self-explanatory)
- Form-to-post plugin (fill out a form and have it automatically make a post in a certain category)
- Subforums (if it's possible to have a category not listed in the main forums section and then only accessible via a top-level category)
- XMPP integration with chat (have the protocol be tied to an XMPP server)
- Group chats
- And more...
Will think of more and will add to this list as time goes on.
Group chats and sub forums are going into core if github serves me correctly, so no need for plugins on those.
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The anti-RSS plugin I mentioned would be a huge help to me.
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Here's some stuff I'd like to see:
- Follow topics you reply to automatically - I've lost hope of this making it into core, but it's essential imo. It's a basic feature on every forum software I've used except NodeBB.
Not any I've used.
SMF has that feature, I know you've used that.
- Homepage as "all topics" view - looks like this is in development
Isn't this possible with the custom homepage and one category?
If it is, then we need some sort of guide imo.
- The ability to delete a user account but put the email on a blocklist, which would be handy for spammers, because you could delete their content and burn their email address so they can't register again. Not sure if something similar to this exists in the NodeBB antispam plugin.
Wouldn't work, spammers don't use the same email address, they use any host of temporary email suppliers, mailinator, gmx,minutemail + hundreds more.
A better option here would be being able to specify a list of blacklisted email domains.
That would be a better option, but I have had situations where I've deleted a spammer account and they've come back under the same email address.
@Tanner Would love to see subforums for sure, but only if they're restricted to one level deep, I hate it when admins on other forum software go crazy with subforums.
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@luke said:
SMF has that feature, I know you've used that.
That looks like SMF 2.1, which has been in development for the past 3 years and is not recommended for a live site, SMF 2.0.7/8 doesn't have notifications.
To make sure we don't get any repeat requests etc, I'll add them all into first post (that could actually be plugins, not ones that are either being worked into core, or are already possible through core (mods can edit as required if something I've put as possible isn't etc)
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@Tanner said:
@a_5mith Why not make a master list of plugin ideas in the OP of this thread? That way anyone looking for an idea has one place to go.
I have...
###Plugin Ideas###
- Follow topics you reply to automatically
- OP Mod status for that topic
- Email domain blacklist
- Disable RSS (could be done in Nginx I believe)
- XMPP support for chat
- Custom User Fields. (Favourite Cheese etc)
Any new ones are added every now and then. (If they're legitimate plugin ideas, and not "Hurry up with 0.5.0" or "sub categories".
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What about the form-to-post suggestion
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Here's another one, unless I missed it and it's already out there somewhere: RSS to posts feed plugin, where you can link an RSS feed to automatically make posts.
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If any plugin authors refer to this thread, a form-to-post plugin would be simply amazing and would earn you +1 internets
Also, disabling RSS is now a core feature so we can strike that off the list.
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Posting this here because it's a "nice to have", but is not on my priority list at the moment.
A "compiled bcrypt" plugin would be very simple to do.
Right now we use bcryptjs to hash our passwords. But what if somebody didn't want to use bcrypt? We could add a new hook
filter:password.hashthat passes in the plaintext password, and the plugins do their work.My rationale is for RPis, because bcrypt runs amazingly slow on ARM processors. The "solution" is to switch to compiled bcrypt (instead of js bcrypt), or lower the # of rounds (NodeBB defaults to 12). The lower the rounds, the easier the password can be cracked. No good. Having a plugin use bcrypt instead of bcryptjs would allow NodeBB to maintain the same # of bcrypt rounds, since it is a plugin that is using the compiled bcrypt lib, not core.
... oh, and there's a side benefit -- if people migrating from an md5-based password storage forum want to keep their passwords, then theoretically, they could use a
nodebb-plugin-md5-passwordand store passwords in md5 instead. But...THIS IS A BAD IDEA BECAUSE MD5 IS NOT SECURE
Edit: Oh hi @a_5mith, I figured you'd show up immediately after posting
