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Anyone familiar with Xenforo's Resource Manger ?

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  • Jesse PulferJ

    The NodeBB team is looking for community developers to help with a plugin that would mirror Xenforo's resource manager:

    The Resource Manager allows you to manage resources such as files and tutorials or other article-like content along side your normal forum. The aim is allow content such as files to be listed with a focus on the initial content rather than discussion surrounding it. Users can watch resources and be updated whenever a new version is released.

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  • julianJ

    Some more information about it:

    The Resource Manager is an official XenForo add-on that allows you to manage resources such as files and tutorials or other article-like content along side your normal forum. The aim is allow content such as files to be listed with a focus on the initial content rather than discussion surrounding it. Users can watch resources and be updated whenever a new version is released.

    Resources can be sold (as a link to external purchase handling), downloaded directly from the resource manager, downloaded from an external URL, or provided without a file. The administrator can control the type of resources allowed and who can post them on a per category basis. Discussion threads can automatically be created for each resource, allowing the target forum and a thread prefix to be specified per resource category.

    It is completely integrated into XenForo, including support for moderator permissions, logging, manual approval and soft-deletion, liking, news feed entries and alerts, reporting, search, spam cleaning, and statistics.

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  • yariplusY

    Has this been started yet?

    I am interested in helping with this, as I'm a XenForo convert.

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    julianJ

    No need for that here. But maybe a plugin in the future 🙂

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