[nodebb-plugin-ns-awards] NS Awards, Give Medals!

[Gaurav Grv Robinson]

@SatoshiCamp +1

[Nicolas]

@SatoshiCamp there is no such functionality. There is such TODO item, to create achievements in future releases.

[Gaurav Grv Robinson]

@Nicolas I think I am asking too much but is there an ETA for your TODO list ?

[Nicolas]

I don't have any ETA

[Gaurav Grv Robinson]

@Nicolas Will some coffee/beer boost you up for further development ?

[Nicolas]

No, I don't think it could help
I do small chunks of work on every plugin, one by one.
I can say, that currently I'm updating Custom Fields plugin, and I'm very close to final stage of another major release for it. Next plugin could be Awards or Points, it depends how Github sort them for me by popularity

[Gaurav Grv Robinson]

@Nicolas That's sad. I really needed the TO DO features of your points and awards plugins, I guess I'll have to hire another dev for the job.

[Nicolas]

Version 3.0.0

Summary: error handling for uploads

• Compatibility with NodeBB v1.x
• Use of relative path for award uploading
• Show error messages for new awards uploads

[torn2]

@Nicolas Is this plugin going to be updated soon? It's great, though it would be a lot easier to use if you didn't have to edit templates.

[Nicolas]

@torn2 no plans for the update

[torn2]

@Nicolas Ahhh that sucks, the to do list seems like a great update!

[TimP4w]

Well since it seems that you don't have enough time to update it, I tried to achieve the automatic reward system.
But since I'm new with those kind of stuff (javascript, nodejs, nodeBB, mongoDB, et cetera) I don't know if what I did is correct, because I'm still thinking in terms of PHP and MySQL.

If someone wants to have a look this is my fork: https://github.com/TimP4w/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards
For now it "works" but of course it's not production ready.

[torn2]

@TimP4w Any more updates on this?

[Nicolas]

@TimP4w I didn't prioritize any NodeBB development several last months. I have checked your PR at weekends, It's a definitely looks different. I thought about Achievement system in different way.

Would be great to know, how many users would like to see an achievement system (system where you define an achievement with a set of rules, and if those rules are fulfilled - user will receive an award).

[TimP4w]

@torn2 Well, maybe in a couple of day it could be considered "production ready". I just have to add some features that are needed for adding different rules.

@Nicolas Well, I'm finishing this for myself, I won't upload it on npm, so that you can implement your version when you'll have time.

[jarey]

@TimP4w you can always name your fork diffefent and pjblish it on npm under its new name so people can choose to use one of the two versions.

[torn2]

@TimP4w I know I would be. Kinda surprised this hasn't been implement already.

[TimP4w]

@torn2 Just finished my exams, so I'll have time to continue this.
I think that with the last commit i've got it, there are just some other things to do i.e. beautify the ACP panel, the all awards page and also to add more rules, but the core thing is there.

[Nicolas]

It looks like, ability to set achievements should not be a part of the Awards plugin.
In order to track several behaviors for every user in the system, plenty of additional database objects should be created. It's an overhead. Only who is interested in such resource overhead, only they should spend extra CPU/RAM resources for it.

What does it mean?

• NS Awards plugin should provide an API
• New Achievement plugin should be introduced, where Achievement plugin can interact with NS Awards if needed.

[TimP4w]

@Nicolas Actually you're right. It's very CPU expensive to check every time for the conditions (there are like 5 for cycles).
The problem is that we can't fully use mongodb queries. I can't think of a better and optimized way to do it.