Plugin ideas

Schamper

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

<baris>

We are having that discussion internally too, ie adding up/down buttons to posts and making favourite just add the post to your favourites. The reputation of the post and user will then be tied to the the amount of up/downs they get. We still haven't decided on what to do.

julian

I'm an advocate of flamewars

xCausxn

@planner said:

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

i was refering to a vote up down

StuartH

What about a plugin for none devs to upload a background image to their site?

julian

Sounds like something you could do with plugin-42...

<script>
  document.body.style.background = "url('urlToImage') #000";
</script>

StuartH

@julian Thank you

Henrock

I'm thinking of making a plugin that enables you to chat to multiple users in the same chat, a la Facebook messenger.
However when I look in the chat code I see theres a lot to be done to make it "pluginnable", maybe it's better to implement this functionality into the core?
What do you say @psychobunny ?

Ted

@Henrock @psychobunny
I think this can be make a different way: Launch a topic visible for only selected members.

psychobunny

@tedr56's idea is interesting.

As far as multi-user chat goes there would have to be a lot of revamp in there for that to work. It's still possible to write it as a plugin but perhaps you're right that it would be much easier to make its way into core. Right now I don' t see this as super high priority so I won't make an issue just yet. Would love to see a PR though if you're interested in taking it on!

Henrock

I have a couple of ideas, let's see what I can do.
edit: I don't see your replies in the recent posts list btw @psychobunny , are you hidden in some way?

psychobunny

ah, the recent replies on the home page is just a widget that pulls data from the /recent view - so it will only show the most recent replier for that topic. Didn't realize that until now