[nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] Shoutbox plugin

[NasuhG]

How can I enable the shoutbox. I installed with npm, restart the nodebb, installed on admin dashboard. I can see its in the my installed plugins but its not appearing on the front page.

[HolyPhoenix]

@NasuhG It is a widget, so you have to add the widget in the place you want the shoutbox to appear. Admin->Extend->Widgets

[arutemu]

I encountered a very weird issue - all timestamps are in backwards order. Looks like this bug was registered 2 years ago, but it's not resolved yet. This is a very noticeable functionality, and all users of my forum complain about it. Could someone fix this bug please? https://github.com/Schamper/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox/issues/88

[Lewis Belton]

Hi,

I love this plugin although here is my current setup.

• http://prntscr.com/gdm22x

How can I move the shoutbox up (or footer down to be fair,) and put some line breaks or something in between it to space it out?

[fais3000]

@lewis-belton Plenty of ways to add some padding. You can grab the shoutbox div in JS and add padding/margin at the top or just give top space in CSS.

e.g $('#shoutbox-main').css("padding-top", 20);

[PitaJ]

@faisal-zahid you can just do that in custom CSS, no need to jQuery here:

#shoutbox-main {
  padding-top: 20px;
}

[Schamper]

@pitaj @Faisal-Zahid

[fais3000]

@schamper @PitaJ lol, touché!

To my defense, I did say you can do it in JS "or" CSS

On a separate note. @Schamper really love your shoutbox plugin, any plans for updates that'll make it work with current Nodebb version?

[Schamper]

@faisal-zahid What's broken in current versions?

[fais3000]

@schamper After the update to 1.5.3, shoutbox widget on custom pages, homepage or its own dedicated route doesn't render. No errors in the log as well. I described it here

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11096/upgrade-from-1-5-2-to-1-5-3-breaks-shoubox-plugin

[Schamper]

@faisal-zahid Would you mind creating an issue for it on Github?

[fais3000]

@schamper https://github.com/Schamper/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox/issues/111

[faizanzahid]

@Schamper Lovely plugin! We are hoping shoutbox allows following:

• Ability to upload pics, songs, videos, from laptop/device and share in shoutbox and play as in html5?
• Support for shoutbox in latest node bb version 1.6 update and on wards ?
• A character limit on the number of characters while shouting, this will be to prevent spammers from posting very large messages.
• A feature to ignore users/ block users but this should be a global feature i guess.

you guys rock!

[faizanzahid]

Can we have an ability to let the users reply to individual messages or quote indivudal messages so that chat is more meaningful in case of multiple messages?
Whatsapp and skype does this

[faizanzahid]

@fais3000 said in [nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] Shoutbox plugin:

@schamper @PitaJ lol, touché!

To my defense, I did say you can do it in JS "or" CSS

On a separate note. @Schamper really love your shoutbox plugin, any plans for updates that'll make it work with current Nodebb version?

@fais3000 said in [nodebb-plugin-shoutbox] Shoutbox plugin:

@schamper https://github.com/Schamper/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox/issues/111

Guys are we going to fix the compatibility of shoutbox with the latest node bb update (v1.7.3) ?

@baris

[Fluim]

Hey,

I have a problem with you'r shoutbox plugin and i can't fix it. . .

Ant idea ? Flaty Skin and Persona Theme.

[Evgeniy Onegin]

@schamper thx

[Evgeniy Onegin]

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[Evgeniy Onegin]

warn: [widgets.render] passing a string is deprecated!, filter:widget.render:shoutbox. Please set hookData.html in your plugin. (in ./nodebb log)

FIX (instead old app.render on 97 line '/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox/library.js')

var current_time = (new Date()).getTime();
app.render('shoutbox/panel', { html: '<div id="tablediv"></div>', time: current_time }, function(err, html){   
    widget.html = html;
    callback(err, widget);
});

[PitaJ]

@evgeniy-onegin I don't think the current_time thing is necessary. Also, you can use Date.now() instead of (new Date()).getTime() just FYI.

Also, you can do code blocks like this:

```
var currentTime = Date.now();
```

Which looks like this:

var currentTime = Date.now();