a related topic you can get some info:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/14061/persona-theme-subcategory-view-on-main-page

@baris please add us too

@omega Thanks, somehow your code was always flexing the icon only... But I managed to get two column view with this CSS addition on persona theme: (on 1.12.2)

.category-children .category-children-item {
    float: left ;
    width: 20em ;
}

Thanks a lot, I got the em idea from you until then I was unsuccessfully trying with %

here is how it looks:

@MJ said in Simple Night Mode for NodeBB:

body.lights-out .fa.fa-fw.fa-comment-o{
color: white;
}
/Mobiel/
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle {
border-color: #fff;
}

In case, anyone wants to make the tags and pagination container dark as well, we have this addition to the code above:

body.lights-out .fa.fa-fw.fa-comment-o{
    color: white;
}

body.lights-out .category>ul>li .tag-list .tag {
    background-color: #404040;
}

body.lights-out .pagination a{
    color: #ffffff;
    background-color: #404040;
    border-color: #232323;
}
/*Mobiel*/
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle {
    border-color: #fff;
}

Edit: You can also add this for active page on the pagination

body.lights-out .page.active a{
    background-color: #848484;
}

From time to time, I check other NodeBB sites to get some ideas... I sometimes see people use custom colors for their categories, but colors in the forum are not compatible with each other in terms of toning...

So, if you want to customize colors in the forum, I recommend using the website below for color picking... You can pick whatever color you like, but if you want to use for example tone at 400 for green, use 400 for other colors too...

Overall, using the same tone for different colors will create more aesthetically pleasant pages...

Material Palette - Material Design Colors

@sharonyue said in translation for "post quick reply":

@crazycells @baris I have no idea how to pull using git... Could you please translate post quick reply to 快速回复 in Chinese? I am sure this is the best translation.

I do not know how Chinese is shortened, I guess zh-CN ? Maybe others can confirm... For pull request, first click here:

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/tree/master/languages

then click "create new file" and for path after /languages/ write:

.../languages/zh-CN/persona.json

To create the file, in "edit file section", copy paste this with chinese translations...

{
    "mobile-menu-side": "Switch which side each mobile menu is on",
    "post-quick-reply": "Post quick reply"
}

on the right side, delete "Switch which side each mobile menu is on" and replace it with chinese translation, and then delete "Post quick reply" and replace it with chinese translation...

then click create pull request, rest will be taken care of by the team...

Hi @baris , the same problem occurred when the most recent post in the sub-category is moved to another sub-category... FYI...

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/8157

Please check below:

AliCihan created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed sub-categories show "no new posts" if the most recent post is moved to another category #8157

@PitaJ said in welcome page error:

Please ensure the URL value in config.json matches exactly the URL at which you access your site.

thanks, that solved the issue.

@kevin-redx said in Embed Live Content:

How can I embed a YouTube live video on my forum?

I have just tried a link from youtube.com/live

iframely does the job... fyi...

@PitaJ said in Customize plugin and NodeBB 1.13.2:

I'd guess one of those templates changed and the customization is no longer correct.

Have you rebuilt within customize? If that doesn't work, I'd suggest recording the changes and deketing them, then trying again. Also, make sure customize is updated and nodebb has the latest version of graceful-fs installed.

Yes, you are right. For future reference:

I have deleted everything and re-wrote the changes... topic.tpl was still giving problems (not saving the changes), then I realized there are small changes in current topic.tpl file... So, I have re-added pagination at the top of the posts in the current topic.tpl file, saved, re-built the forum... it solved the problem...

@sharonyue said in Compose box button:

Any ideas? Tigers

I guess you try something like this:

.composer .formatting-bar .formatting-group li[data-format="upload"] {
      padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

change "upload" to whatever the data-format of the button is, and then you can start playing with padding numbers. first one is for above then it goes clockwise (up, right, bottom, left)

Make sure it is the same on mobile, otherwise you can bring some limitation like:

@media (min-width: 769px){
.....
}

@crazycells here is github link for the issue:

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/8422

AliCihan created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

open selecting users with more than one "criteria" in ACP #8422

@omega yeap, in this case we have to adjust these settings accordingly...

Currently, we do not have limits for those, but in your example I believe we will adjust it to 3...

I think for a post, to ban its user, it should be flagged by 15 different people, so it requires a really well organized mob to abuse this First posts require "admin approval", and this is our stats:

If we have 15 trolls among 9000 users, I guess they can only abuse the system one time and next, they will be banned from the forum... (which is maybe not necessarily bad thing to get rid of 15 useless trolls ) Just to remind you that 15 is just an educated guess in our case, of course it needs to be adjusted according to forum size and atmosphere...

@omega said in automatic temporary ban of a troll user with minus X votes:

To abide by my own call to keep things simple.

I would suggest to base such a feature on report/flag action. rather than the downvote.

Downvotes are visble to users.

Reports/flags are not as a rule - this should be the trigger.

This goes some way to addressing the weakness of user mob behaviour to game the vote system to knock people out.

That would also be okay I believe... it is also solving the same problem...

If you put a threshold for downvoting ability (in our case it is 3), it will solve the problem you are mentioning... since a person needs to create 15 different accounts for this, approve email addresses, get 3 points reputation first, I believe it will mean at least waste of half an hour/1 hour for this simple act (which can be reversed by an admin easily by lifting the ban)

additionally, if it is not clear, I am suggesting it should only count the flags in the first X hours (for example 12 hours) after posting (depend on admin schedule)

@omega thanks for your comments

just to make sure we are on the same page... I am suggesting that when a post of a troll user has -15 rating in the first X hour, user should be temporarily banned (or muted if that function comes) , but post is still there and visible, nothing is happening to the post, just troll user is blocked for certain time (depending on admin schedule)...

in our case, most of the active users are protecting the forum atmosphere and they are already down voting and flagging for moderation... however these are not solving the problem until a moderator/admin checks the issue. You sometimes see more than 100 posts are posted about this incident when you enter the forum

I believe -15 would function as expected for our forum now (it is just an example, of course it will depend on forum atmosphere, for example in this nodebb forum up and down votes are not used as much as our forum) but in the future the more people using the forum, it should be further adjusted bu admins of course...

But as for other features (like upvoting and downvoting), we forbid abusing these functions explicitly. Constant downvoting (or let's say revenge downvotes ) is also a weakness nodebb has, however we solved the issue by a clear announcement about permanent ban. A person can only abuse these functions one time, since afterwards he/she will be banned permanently. (additionally, you have to have at least 3 reputation point to be able to downvote posts in our forum, so a "sudden registration" would not be an issue)

Moreover, temporary ban can be lifted by admins anyways, this is just to automatize the process and encourage people to protect the atmosphere more... Of course I am not suggesting everyone should use this only if you think, it is a fit to your forum...

I will check how it works in discourse, thanks.

additionally, we also have "registered user only" categories... blocking also prevents them to
access these parts, however muting shouldn't...

we are OK for those user still browsing the forum, but just not able to comment until "muting period" is over...

@omega yes busier it gets, harder to moderate

Thanks for your comment...

We are actually expanding our moderator teams but somehow I prefer to give them the "privilege" of "mute function" rather than "block user" function... It does not give any harm to anyone and it also calm the atmosphere, we benefited this function a lot in our facebook groups, since we do not have to kick out the user since he/she cannot comment any more...

in our case, heated discussions are usually in large "chat" topics, so locking the topic would not be proper, since others are also using the topic for chatting...

There was a "ignore plugin" before, but unfortunately not compatible with nodebb any more...

Since there is not always a moderator/admin on the forum... I was thinking a way to deactivate experienced troll users with "social justice" in the forum...

I think this kind of feature would help a lot of forums and ease the work of admins...

Let's say a troll user posted a post, if that post takes -15 votes during the first 12 or 24 hours, troll user is temporarily banned from the forum... Of course ban time or value of downvotes can change depend on the forum size and atmosphere...

It would be nice to have mute function for angry users ...

Facebook groups have this, whenever some problem happens (which does not necessarily require a ban of users), we generously use this function to mute users for a period of time (12 hours / 24 hours / 2 days etc. )...

User can still login, browse the forum, vote... however not able to post during this period.

@baris is it possible to reverse an event?

I am only talking about moderator events...

Let's say, a mod mistakenly made an unwanted edit to a post, it looks like there is no way bringing back the post to the older version, but we can only visualize it through version history? Am I right?