Change Composer to Redactor

drew

Emailed the NodeBB Team directly to discuss getting Redactor into the app's core. Would make the forum's content so much more flexible, especially for non-tech people (Marketing departments etc) who want to make feature-rich content as the initial post on a thread.

julian

@Drew-Llewellyn We've reached out to the Redactor team to see if we can get started on this

drew

@julian I've bought and emailed your team the OEM licensed version of Redactor.

Ali

@Drew-Llewellyn wow you rich buddy! Thanks!

jarey

@Drew-Llewellyn that is incredible. Thanks!!

julian

Yes, thanks @Drew-Llewellyn! Looking forward to seeing what we can do with this...

leksar

Woo Hoo !

psychobunny

haha don't get your hopes up yet, we still need to see if it's feasible or not. Fortunately @Drew-Llewellyn has a 30 day guarantee so if we can't figure it out no harm done.

That said, I really love it so it'll be great to have it implemented here

drew

Yeah, it's such a good tool and for people creating a content driven forum website it'll be really helpful for making high quality well formatted content. So glad this is happening!

Ali

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zerefel

Really cool, guys! Looking forward to what you'll come up with!

julian

Some sneak peeks from our dev work on the new composer

jarey

@julian it looks nice. Good work, keep it up.

djeber

looking great hopefully it will be on the core, this is so much better specially for the average users

meetdilip

So is it confirmed ? NodeBB will come with Redactor ?

psychobunny

We have tons of work to go including finding a way to get all of the existing composer plugins to be compatible (ex. Embed plugins) and making sure this works on mobile. It's a start, but we're confident

Thanks to @Drew-Llewellyn, this will be available for anybody using nodebb without having to purchase a licence

julian

I'm torn on whether it should be core or not. Possibly bundled but the default composer would be active, not redactor

drew

Make it bundled but disabled in the next release? Tell everyone here about it. Some will chose to use it. With a good field test and bugs ironed out during 0.7.1 it'll be ready for default by next release, protecting novice users during this first one.

psychobunny

I think the only question is compatibility between composer plugins. If it's an easy switch without losing functionality then why not?

I've also been looking at https://iframely.com/ (resurrected on a different thread earlier), if done right this could basically deprecate all other embed style plugins

julian

Yeah, I definitely think an all-in-one embed plugin would be ideal. Many of our embed plugins add content in different ways: inline, box at the bottom, etc.

It would be good to get one standard format that all embed plugins adhere to, or supercede completely