Chat and Search Behaviour NodeBB 3.x

yasas

Are the following NodeBB behaviours normal? Is there a way around them?

Editing chats by admins is possible. Is it possible to turn it off?
Chat dialog blocks the whole site. It there any way to to turn that off and have it work like in 2.x where you can navigate the forum with a chat open?
Using the Persona theme. Any chance of stopping the search results from blocking the page? (When there are more posts, it blocks the whole thing). Also seems it's not styled well but don't see any errors in the Network tab about loading CSS.

<baris>

Can't disable chat message editing for admins right now without modifying the code here
Harmony has a setting in the theme settings to enable chat modals, which don't cover the whole screen.

Looks like the css rules aren't correct for you. This is what it looks like for me on persona

You might have to make sure you are on correct version and run ./nodebb build

yasas

Hi @baris
Thanks very much. Will try that out

yasas

Seems the error with search was that nodebb-widget-search-bar is not compatible with 3.x. I think since there was a port from scss -> less or vice versa, the styling isn't loading

<baris>

nodebb-widget-essentials has a search widget now, I used that one in my screenshot and enabled quick search in the widget settings.

yasas

Hi @baris
We have to keep using Persona instead of Harmony so we cannot use those theme settings.
Any availability of a custom CSS that we can use for replicating the chat behaviour from 2.x?

<baris>

Persona already opens a chat modal when you click a chat from the dropdown. You can expand it to the full chat page from the button in the title bar.

yasas

Hi @baris
We have found what seems to be a bug with the Persona chat modal.

chat-modal class is spanned across the screen even though the actual chat modal is modal-content class. When the chat modal is open, nothing above and to the right behind it are clickable.
When we have opened multiple chats, it's stacked on top of each other so if we want to go to another open chat, we need to minimise the one we opened last.
When we move it all the way down, it disappears and if we want to take it back, we need to refresh the page

<baris>

I can't reproduce that issue, on persona it looks like this for me

When I minimize it there is a circle on the bottom that lets me restore it.

yasas

I see. This is how it is in my case.

Behaviour - Video

Inspect - Video

yasas

Update: I did a local build and tested using multiple browsers. Still the behaviour is the same as https://community.nodebb.org/post/98116