Plugin / Theme contest!

psychobunny

haha I can't wait.

FYI core devs aren't elgible for the prizes (like, duh), but we will be around for newbies during the plugin week if they need help with certain aspects, hooks etc.

sdnyco

I have never worked with nodeBB but I shall join the fun for the mere sake of embarrassing myself. I need to get started on theming anyway.

Schamper

I'd be interested, just need to find me some time to actually work on stuff. Full time internship is eating it all!

So... Does it count if I fix up that poll plugin, add a couple features... And you use it for voting? ^^

More serious though, how many entries? As of right now I have 3 plugin ideas, 2 of which are very large.

psychobunny

@Schamper I think it's about time we use your poll plugin. Did you know it's being used on the most active NodeBB forum yet? It's constantly hovering around 1000 concurrent users, I'm seeing a new post every 3-5 seconds (just leave their /recent page open for a few minutes)

https://hashtalk.org/topic/3727/time-for-vote-in-our-new-mods

Anyways congrats on building that. And NOPE, you're not allowed to resubmit Unfair advantage haha.

Unlimited entries I imagine

EDIT: only on a bitcoin forum would unlimited decimal places seem normal rofl

Schamper

@psychobunny I did not know that! I actually thought no one used that! Well I suppose I can safely conclude that it is stable enough for a large forum...
The rounding mistake was actually fixed in a recent PR, but I didn't publish to npm yet.

Yeah I figured, was asking just in case Of course, you could casually mention me as developer of it in the voting thread...Might get me some votes

I would be surprised if I even finish one plugin though, just need to choose which one

psychobunny

Yeah you're exactly like me. Do five things at a time and accomplish negative one tasks in total.

EDIT: I'll give you one step better. Will promote your plugin on our twitter

psychobunny

@sdnyco we were actually thinking of making a separate newbie category prize as well. Best plugin written by a new author That's IF we get a bunch of new programmers to NodeBB signing up, then this category will definitely happen. So tell your friends, JavaScript is ezmode isn't it (afterall, even I managed to learn it trololol)

esiao

That sounds interesting. I'm in.

a_5mith

imout

I'm out.

I mean, I'm in.

sdnyco

@psychobunny Tell my friends! Haha, good one.

And I was more thinking about creating a new theme, rather than a plugin. But I definitely wouldn't mind a newbie category.

Tanner

I'm in too, time to start pondering on an appropriate theme to theme :3

meetdilip

Good luck guys

a non coder

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If I only had the time, I'd see what I could do. Bit busy with university at present.

Schamper

Soo any updates? It's monday in a couple hours here

julian

@Schamper I didn't realise the contest had already started

Schamper

@julian guess it's not this week huh, maybe I was too excited

julian

Original post updated with sponsor and prize information!!

esiao

@julian Maybe a stupid question but how will you handle the transport ? Also I don't know if it's like in France but here you need a bailiff to validate the contest when there are prizes.

Anyway cool prizes here.

trevor

@psychobunny Can we just take the value instead of the hosting?

julian

@trevor Yeah we might end up changing it to just a cash prize from us instead