Hi all - pardon me if this is the wrong place to post this, but I am a moderator on a site (opposite-lock.com) that runs NodeBB as our software. I don't deal with the dev side of things, but just had a comment from a friend of mine who uses the site and thought it was a good suggestion.

My friend is colorblind (reds and blues) and, no matter what theme he selects on our site, he finds the minimal change to the upvote icon incredibly hard to see, so he has a hard time knowing if he upvoted something already or not.

Is there a chance we could get the upvote icon improved for those with color-blindness so that, rather than just changing color, the icon for an already self-upvoted upvote button changes more noticeable? Like, for example...maybe a circle appears behind it, or a square? Or it turns into a checkmark...?

Essentially, have it change in a way so, even if somebody were COMPLETELY colorblind, they would still be able to tell that it has changed?

Thanks for all the great work you do and I hope this is a sensible and easily-addable request!

@downpw I don't have access to the site so I can't change anything myself....I'm assuming this is in a file somewhere?

@gotwf Cheers for the reply! Yes, I would imagine it wouldn't be all that difficult to rectify, and it would make things easier for those with a color-blindness handicap....such a simple thing that most of us overlook it, but even such a minor change would make a big difference to them!

I forgot this would, of course, have to apply to downvotes as well (we have downvotes disabled at Oppositelock).

Thanks folks! Posted on the github issues page as a feature request and it's already marked as milestone....kudos NodeBB devs! ^_^

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/10174

dagleykd created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed Feature Request - Better visiblity on upvote/downvote icons when clicked for those with Colorblindness #10174

@omega Surprised yet not surprised!

@node-bonbon said in Set a tag to only be used by a certain group?:

@rallydarkstrike Standard tag - Any user who has permission in acp to add tags to posts in a category, can add it. You can set a list of system tags, which only an administrator can add them For topics.

Cheers, friend, that seems to be EXACTLY what we are looking for!

@node-bonbon Oh, interesting...does this mean that ONLY Admins/Mods can use tags at all? Or Admins and mods can use CERTAIN tags that everybody else can't use?

@omega Surprised yet not surprised!

Thanks folks! Posted on the github issues page as a feature request and it's already marked as milestone....kudos NodeBB devs! ^_^

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/10174

dagleykd created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed Feature Request - Better visiblity on upvote/downvote icons when clicked for those with Colorblindness #10174

@gotwf said in Upvote colorblindness visibility:

@rallydarkstrike said in Upvote colorblindness visibility:

@julian Sure, how would I go about doing that?

Mayhaps these are the droids you are looking for....

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

Yup, looks like, though as this is a feature request and not a bug report, do I have to fill out all these requested details? I'm not a dev on our site so I don't have access to them

Hi all - no idea if this is possible or not, but is there a way with NodeBB to have a certain tag that is only usable by users in a certain group?

For example (just making this up), have a tag labelled, say 'Moderators', that only users in a set group called 'Admins' (or maybe a group called Moderators?) would be able to attach to a new thread, but would not be able to be used by anybody not in that group?

We're an automotive community (http://opposite-lock.com) - to explain our reasoning, most of our posts are fairly basic, but on occasion, a lot of our users like to make actual long-form articles and content. Our plan is to have a 'main page' which only shows these long-form articles and then our 'community' section is our NodeBB forum. One of our devs has already coded a system that pulls relevant data from a post with one of these long-form articles and transposes it onto a Wordpress site to act as our front page, but we were wondering if there was a way to create a tag that only our admins could use....if that was the case, said dev could code his system to ONLY pull posts with a certain tag and transpose them onto our front page. Only the admins could implement that tag, meaning any other user wouldn't just be able to use that tag to put anything on the main page other than the long form content we're looking for.

Hopefully that explanation made sense?

Maybe there's another way to go about it without using tags?

Thanks for any help and suggestions!

@julian Sure, how would I go about doing that?

@downpw I don't have access to the site so I can't change anything myself....I'm assuming this is in a file somewhere?

@gotwf Cheers for the reply! Yes, I would imagine it wouldn't be all that difficult to rectify, and it would make things easier for those with a color-blindness handicap....such a simple thing that most of us overlook it, but even such a minor change would make a big difference to them!

I forgot this would, of course, have to apply to downvotes as well (we have downvotes disabled at Oppositelock).

Hi all - pardon me if this is the wrong place to post this, but I am a moderator on a site (opposite-lock.com) that runs NodeBB as our software. I don't deal with the dev side of things, but just had a comment from a friend of mine who uses the site and thought it was a good suggestion.

My friend is colorblind (reds and blues) and, no matter what theme he selects on our site, he finds the minimal change to the upvote icon incredibly hard to see, so he has a hard time knowing if he upvoted something already or not.

Is there a chance we could get the upvote icon improved for those with color-blindness so that, rather than just changing color, the icon for an already self-upvoted upvote button changes more noticeable? Like, for example...maybe a circle appears behind it, or a square? Or it turns into a checkmark...?

Essentially, have it change in a way so, even if somebody were COMPLETELY colorblind, they would still be able to tell that it has changed?

Thanks for all the great work you do and I hope this is a sensible and easily-addable request!