[nodebb-plugin-metro-tiles] Metro Tiles (Modern UI inspired)

[psychobunny]

NodeBB Metro Tiles

This NodeBB plugin was inspired by the Windows 8 Modern UI start screen. It causes the tiles on the homepage to animate and slide up, revealing category description and latest posts.

Installation

npm install nodebb-plugin-metro-tiles

Credits

Credits goes to @barisusakli who originally wrote this into the vanilla theme of NodeBB.
https://github.com/barisusakli/

Download the source on Github

EDIT: If anybody makes a Modern UI inspired forum (using Modern UI colors + this plugin at minimum) then please let me know, I would love to link to that as a demo!)

[Chris]

@psychobunny This is awesome.

How would it treat recent posts that are in categories that are locked down via group access? ie: A guest user looking at the categories when one or two have read/write privileges enabled on them?

[psychobunny]

I just checked and it doesn't - I'll have to file a bug in NodeBB, apparently we're not filtering for access control in the Categories.getRecentRepliesmethod

[Chris]

I just checked and it doesn't - I'll have to file a bug in NodeBB, apparently we're not filtering for access control in the Categories.getRecentRepliesmethod

Yeah I just tried it out and that's a deal breaker for me but I'll definitely reactivate it once that bug is taken care of. It's freaking awesome though and I can't wait to use it.

One thing I think that would still be handy would be having the title of the category above the tile as depending on how many posts you have flowing through there it could be easy for non-regular users to get confused about which category they're looking at.

This is super cool, though.

[psychobunny]

https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/issues/719
https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/issues/720

Heads up on #720, just noticed myself.

thanks I'll keep the title visible in the next version

[StuartH]

This works & looks great
although I'm going to have to change a couple of the tiles as the white text dose not work great on a white background for some reason

[psychobunny]

wow looks pretty good on your forum glad you like it!

tip: you don't need to change the background, you can just change the text color in the category admin panel

[StuartH]

wow looks pretty good on your forum glad you like it!

tip: you don't need to change the background, you can just change the text color in the category admin panel

I looked but did not see any options to adjust will go look again this time with eyes open

[psychobunny]

[StuartH]

You beat me to it as soon as I went back to the cats I realized I am a numpty

[psychobunny]

hahaha secret features unlocked

[StuartH]

@psychobunny any idea when the permissions will be working with this plugin ?

[StuartH]

Are there any adjustments that can be made in the Custom Class section
col-md-3 col-xs-6
I guess the number means size but what other option are there or could you tell me where to find the info.

[julian]

Hi StuartH, the custom class directive mainly deals with the width of categories. An overview of bootstrap's grid system can be found here: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid