Change Composer to Redactor

[drew]

@psychobunny It exists but it is a bit buggy, lacking any decent instructions for new users, doesn't work past 0.5. There's a fork for 0.6 but it's still very much a fringe plugin.

Are there any plugin devs on here you'd recommend? I have some spare USD resource in my freelancer.com account I'd happily spend on a dev to bring it up to standard for me.

[exodo]

@psychobunny said:

This already exists

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don't even try, it doesn't work, we payed for redactor license but is near impossible to parse all markdown code to get redactor working

[drew]

@exodo You forked the repo and tried to do your own, right? Is there no way to get it working? What was the problem(s) you encountered?

[drew]

Emailed the NodeBB Team directly to discuss getting Redactor into the app's core. Would make the forum's content so much more flexible, especially for non-tech people (Marketing departments etc) who want to make feature-rich content as the initial post on a thread.

[julian]

@Drew-Llewellyn We've reached out to the Redactor team to see if we can get started on this

[drew]

@julian I've bought and emailed your team the OEM licensed version of Redactor.

[Ali]

@Drew-Llewellyn wow you rich buddy! Thanks!

[jarey]

@Drew-Llewellyn that is incredible. Thanks!!

[julian]

Yes, thanks @Drew-Llewellyn! Looking forward to seeing what we can do with this...

[leksar]

Woo Hoo !

[psychobunny]

haha don't get your hopes up yet, we still need to see if it's feasible or not. Fortunately @Drew-Llewellyn has a 30 day guarantee so if we can't figure it out no harm done.

That said, I really love it so it'll be great to have it implemented here

[drew]

Yeah, it's such a good tool and for people creating a content driven forum website it'll be really helpful for making high quality well formatted content. So glad this is happening!

[Ali]

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[zerefel]

Really cool, guys! Looking forward to what you'll come up with!

[julian]

Some sneak peeks from our dev work on the new composer

[jarey]

@julian it looks nice. Good work, keep it up.

[djeber]

looking great hopefully it will be on the core, this is so much better specially for the average users

[meetdilip]

So is it confirmed ? NodeBB will come with Redactor ?

[psychobunny]

We have tons of work to go including finding a way to get all of the existing composer plugins to be compatible (ex. Embed plugins) and making sure this works on mobile. It's a start, but we're confident

Thanks to @Drew-Llewellyn, this will be available for anybody using nodebb without having to purchase a licence

[julian]

I'm torn on whether it should be core or not. Possibly bundled but the default composer would be active, not redactor