Plugin ideas

[psychobunny]

Another one we were discussing on Skype earlier: a plugin that accesses filter:posts.create (see: skype emoji, @mentions plugins) and checks for links to other topics (regex for domain.com/topic/?). If match, creates a post in that topic under that user mentioning that the user posted about this topic, exactly like how Github issues work

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or similar

(edit: I just thought of the potential infinite loop there, gg :P)

[psychobunny]

Skype-style popups when people come online. If you are following a user, throw an app.alertand say the user came online, clicking on it takes you to their userpage.

EDIT: somebody above said this thread should be pinned, if you guys keep coming up with brilliant ideas this topic will be first on the list regardless, so keep it coming!

[WhateverYouWant]

Would love a CDN plugin. This would be great for forums that aren't just accessed in one location.
Edit: I'm always the one with the uncreative and practical ideas. (Not that the other plugin ideas are impractical, it's that they're creative.)

[xCausxn]

Maybe somesort of portal system like phpbb and smf has? http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/?mod=1104

[xCausxn]

Another one here : A rich text editor with colors and formatting for posts etc

[Schamper]

@xCausxn We have markdown for that

[Schamper]

@seti123 said:

Anybody thought about a WebRTC integration. To start calling and chatting with other users.
To give you an impression look at https://twelephone.com/

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[xCausxn]

Markdown is cool but it would be good if it had colors, BBCODEs exectra

[Schamper]

@xCausxn said:

Markdown is cool but it would be good if it had colors, BBCODEs exectra

Ye but the whole point of having Markdown is to get rid of bbcode

[finid]

@Mr_Waffle

There are many variants of Markdown. Do you know of anyone with support for colors?

[julian]

A plugin to add colour markup (e.g. [color=red]) would be pretty straightforward, I'd think... could even exist on top of the markdown plugin.

As it stands, though, there are no plans to add colours to the markdown plugin.

[psychobunny]

If you like bbcode, somebody actually wrote a bbcode plugin https://github.com/adarqui/nodebb-plugin-bbcode

[xCausxn]

@psychobunny The above plugin made the forum not work :P, also another idea for a plugin would be a like/dislike feature on the posts

[Schamper]

@xCausxn there's a favourite feature what's pretty similar to that.

[xCausxn]

@Mr_Waffle i know but i would like to be able to dislike it too

[finid]

@xCausxn, I believe @Mr_Waffle is referring to a vote up/down feature. That's completely different from the favorite feature.

[Schamper]

@planner I know what he's referring to, I'm just saying that favourites is similar to a "vote up" plugin only with a different name. It's just lacking the "vote down" feature

[baris]

We are having that discussion internally too, ie adding up/down buttons to posts and making favourite just add the post to your favourites. The reputation of the post and user will then be tied to the the amount of up/downs they get. We still haven't decided on what to do.

[julian]

I'm an advocate of flamewars

[xCausxn]

@planner said:

@xCausxn, I believe @Mr_Waffle is referring to a vote up/down feature. That's completely different from the favorite feature.

i was refering to a vote up down