[nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] Shoutbox plugin

Schamper

Do you like my plugins? Consider buying me a beer!

We just bought you 5, if you lived in Canada. Unfortunately what we sent you for the last plugin weekend will barely cover even one pint in UK probably

I live in the Netherlands though I can buy a couple with it! Thanks again for that by the way!

psychobunny

You deserved it - but be forewarned I will never lose a plugin weekend again

Schamper

@psychobunny said:

You deserved it - but be forewarned I will never lose a plugin weekend again

I still have videochat up my sleeves! (It's still not finished...)

finid

@Mr_Waffle

Just for coming up with the idea of videochat, you have my vote.

And talking about votes, not that I'm trying to put ideas in some coder's mind, who's going to take up the task of coding a voting/survey plugin, so that we can have a proper vote on these plugins

Schamper

@planner hm I might have some ideas for it, might try it if I have the time this week. Hopefully no one else beats me to it

finid

@Mr_Waffle

That's the spirit, and if you need design/UX ideas or input, we can work on this together. Don't trust me for code, though.

psychobunny

coding a voting/survey plugin

@julian was thinking of using some sort of third party polling API. The three of us actually dealt with an API earlier in our days but that was a paid service that none of us can afford as open source. any ideas?

EDIT: or we could just write it from scratch, of course

Schamper

@psychobunny said:

coding a voting/survey plugin

@julian was thinking of using some sort of third party polling API. The three of us actually dealt with an API earlier in our days but that was a paid service that none of us can afford as open source. any ideas?

EDIT: or we could just write it from scratch, of course

I have some ideas from scratch Haven't looked at the details yet but I think it should all be possible.

phreaker

Weird, can't send messages and even can't see the shoutbox top of the page/bottom of the page.

nodeBB 0.3.1, pulled, restarted

edit:

ahh now finally got these
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[plugins/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] staticDir is deprecated, define CSS files with new staticDirs instead.
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-rss] staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead*

Schamper

@phreaker Soo does it work now or not? Those warnings don't really mean anything, just that I have to update it again

phreaker

@Mr_Waffle not

Schamper

@phreaker Are you using any custom theme? Other plugins that change something on the homepage?

phreaker

@Mr_Waffle No and no - and it was my first plugin after a new vps(ubuntu 12.04)+nodeBB install. But i updated Redis later after i saw in the admin menu the current version (from 2.2).

staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead

the same error for the RSS plugin at the nodebb start but thats works fine without any problem.

wirehack7

@phreaker said:

@Mr_Waffle No and no - and it was my first plugin after a new vps(ubuntu 12.04)+nodeBB install. But i updated Redis later after i saw in the admin menu the current version (from 2.2).

staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead

the same error for the RSS plugin at the nodebb start but thats works fine without any problem.

This is a warning, not an error. Although, it works with this deprached function.

Schamper

@phreaker said:

@Mr_Waffle No and no - and it was my first plugin after a new vps(ubuntu 12.04)+nodeBB install. But i updated Redis later after i saw in the admin menu the current version (from 2.2).

staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead

the same error for the RSS plugin at the nodebb start but thats works fine without any problem.

Can you send me your forum URL through chat? I can try to see where the issue is.

toolito

Issue :
shoutbox block is in the forum stats block

How can i fix it ?

Schamper

@toolito this is because I currently have a few hardcoded positions for the shoutbox. (Before .home, and before .footer-stats) In most themes this works nicely, except when there's a wrapper around any of those classes All of this will be resolved with this.

Schamper

Updated with 0.0.7, small update

Use staticDirs
Add minver
Correctly check for anon... oops
Sound now only plays if the message is from another user
Other sound!
Use the templates system instead of being silly

So only some behind the scenes changes... This release somehow fixes the issue some users were having where the shoutbox wouldn't show on 0.3.2.

julian

Awesome work @mr_waffle!

kelso

I would love love love to be able to set this as a side block like on my xenforo setup.
http://myminecraft.com/

I know this would probably only work well on some themes though..