Plugin ideas

[tedr56]

• A points counter for games.

We have a game topic where users have to find from which movie the image is coming from.
We are keeping points at each winning, but maybe a plugin could do that, with a topic header reminder, and a list of users to attribute the point.

Just an idear

[psychobunny]

Just another idea I came up with for a plugin...

In the topic view, if post count is greater than a preset number.. hides all trivial posts ex. "thanks!", and/or displays posts with high amounts of favourites only

Maybe a more simple version to start with just collapses trivial posts. This could be done entirely client-side, so a easy plugin to make I think!

[finid]

@psychobunny

+1.

[psychobunny]

Another one we were discussing on Skype earlier: a plugin that accesses filter:posts.create (see: skype emoji, @mentions plugins) and checks for links to other topics (regex for domain.com/topic/?). If match, creates a post in that topic under that user mentioning that the user posted about this topic, exactly like how Github issues work

psychobunny referenced this topic in link

or similar

(edit: I just thought of the potential infinite loop there, gg :P)

[psychobunny]

Skype-style popups when people come online. If you are following a user, throw an app.alertand say the user came online, clicking on it takes you to their userpage.

EDIT: somebody above said this thread should be pinned, if you guys keep coming up with brilliant ideas this topic will be first on the list regardless, so keep it coming!

[WhateverYouWant]

Would love a CDN plugin. This would be great for forums that aren't just accessed in one location.
Edit: I'm always the one with the uncreative and practical ideas. (Not that the other plugin ideas are impractical, it's that they're creative.)

[xCausxn]

Maybe somesort of portal system like phpbb and smf has? http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/?mod=1104

[xCausxn]

Another one here : A rich text editor with colors and formatting for posts etc

[Schamper]

@xCausxn We have markdown for that

[Schamper]

@seti123 said:

Anybody thought about a WebRTC integration. To start calling and chatting with other users.
To give you an impression look at https://twelephone.com/

http://community.nodebb.org/topic/553/plugin-weekends#3596

[xCausxn]

Markdown is cool but it would be good if it had colors, BBCODEs exectra

[Schamper]

@xCausxn said:

Markdown is cool but it would be good if it had colors, BBCODEs exectra

Ye but the whole point of having Markdown is to get rid of bbcode

[finid]

@Mr_Waffle

There are many variants of Markdown. Do you know of anyone with support for colors?

[julian]

A plugin to add colour markup (e.g. [color=red]) would be pretty straightforward, I'd think... could even exist on top of the markdown plugin.

As it stands, though, there are no plans to add colours to the markdown plugin.

[psychobunny]

If you like bbcode, somebody actually wrote a bbcode plugin https://github.com/adarqui/nodebb-plugin-bbcode

[xCausxn]

@psychobunny The above plugin made the forum not work :P, also another idea for a plugin would be a like/dislike feature on the posts

[Schamper]

@xCausxn there's a favourite feature what's pretty similar to that.

[xCausxn]

@Mr_Waffle i know but i would like to be able to dislike it too

[finid]

@xCausxn, I believe @Mr_Waffle is referring to a vote up/down feature. That's completely different from the favorite feature.

[Schamper]

@planner I know what he's referring to, I'm just saying that favourites is similar to a "vote up" plugin only with a different name. It's just lacking the "vote down" feature