The Plugin Ideas Topic

esiao

Don't know if possible as a plugin. But I would absolutely love to see a ACF(wordpress) like plugin for user profiles.

Ability to create fields of different types.
Use them in templates.

And a second one :

People who have seen this message.

a_5mith

@Tanner I agree, if people only want one child category, then one it is, if they want 20, so be it. However it won't be a plugin, I believe it's core.

@esiao said

People who have seen this message.

Message? Do you mean topic? Post? Chat message? Like a delivery receipt?

Tanner

@a_5mith Why not make a master list of plugin ideas in the OP of this thread? That way anyone looking for an idea has one place to go.

a_5mith

@Tanner said:

@a_5mith Why not make a master list of plugin ideas in the OP of this thread? That way anyone looking for an idea has one place to go.

I have...

###Plugin Ideas###

Follow topics you reply to automatically

OP Mod status for that topic

Email domain blacklist

Disable RSS (could be done in Nginx I believe)

XMPP support for chat

Custom User Fields. (Favourite Cheese etc)

Any new ones are added every now and then. (If they're legitimate plugin ideas, and not "Hurry up with 0.5.0" or "sub categories".)

Tanner

What about the form-to-post suggestion

a_5mith

@Tanner Missed that one... Shh

esiao

@a_5mith I mean topic and post at first. Like the who's browsing but hidden under the posts and that you can toggle.
And I add a new one :

List the person who liked a post. (I think the main one in that case to add some value to it).

Mauricio

Definitely will like to see Q&A features. To start just:

Choose best answer (and mark topic as solved)

a_5mith

@Mauricio Mark topic as solved is already available with nodebb-plugin-topic-badges

Solved Topic

Will add choosing best answer though.

Tanner

Here's another one, unless I missed it and it's already out there somewhere: RSS to posts feed plugin, where you can link an RSS feed to automatically make posts.

a_5mith

@Tanner https://github.com/barisusakli/nodebb-plugin-rss

Tanner

Perfect! Thanks a lot @a_5mith

Tanner

If any plugin authors refer to this thread, a form-to-post plugin would be simply amazing and would earn you +1 internets

Also, disabling RSS is now a core feature so we can strike that off the list.

julian

Posting this here because it's a "nice to have", but is not on my priority list at the moment.

A "compiled bcrypt" plugin would be very simple to do.

Right now we use bcryptjs to hash our passwords. But what if somebody didn't want to use bcrypt? We could add a new hook filter:password.hash that passes in the plaintext password, and the plugins do their work.

My rationale is for RPis, because bcrypt runs amazingly slow on ARM processors. The "solution" is to switch to compiled bcrypt (instead of js bcrypt), or lower the # of rounds (NodeBB defaults to 12). The lower the rounds, the easier the password can be cracked. No good. Having a plugin use bcrypt instead of bcryptjs would allow NodeBB to maintain the same # of bcrypt rounds, since it is a plugin that is using the compiled bcrypt lib, not core.

... oh, and there's a side benefit -- if people migrating from an md5-based password storage forum want to keep their passwords, then theoretically, they could use a nodebb-plugin-md5-password and store passwords in md5 instead. But...

THIS IS A BAD IDEA BECAUSE MD5 IS NOT SECURE

Edit: Oh hi @a_5mith, I figured you'd show up immediately after posting

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Haven't had my coffee, but sounds like @julian has a great idea. After I get some it might sound like a damn great one though.

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Follow topics you reply to automatically
Show Users that liked posts

Are done in 0.5.1

a_5mith

@baris said:

Follow topics you reply to automatically

Show Users that liked posts

Are done in 0.5.1

Amended my first post with that info.

@julian, pushbullet disrupting me watching the F1.

a_5mith

Because I don't have as much time as I used to, if anyone fancies making an SSO plugin for Soundcloud and MixCloud, I'd be exceptionally grateful.

Also added this to the OP.

scottalanmiller

@Tanner said in The Plugin Ideas Topic:

XMPP integration with chat (have the protocol be tied to an XMPP server)

I still really want this one. Or integration to Rocket would be even better.