Just brought the forums of a Neverwinter Nights roleplaying server off of phpnuke using a port of phpBB on to NodeBB.

The new forums are hosted at https://narfell.us/forum/

Hey there NodeBB community!

I'm posting partially to get the word out for an import plugin that I'm working on for phpbb installs in phpnuke and also to request any tips.

Unfortunately, I can't use the existing phpbb plugin because of how the port for phpnuke mixes the data into phpnuke data in the MySQL database. Regardless, a lot of these importers were incredibly helpful to reference so thank you to all you authors out there (@psychobunny for a lot of them) and to @akhoury for the import plugin.

As it stands, my plugin is working on my NodeBB install at version 1.7.5 stood up behind nginx on linode. I'm planning to upgrade to 1.10.x or latest after I run my final migration and bbcode to markdown conversion pending investigating to plugin support drop off for newer NodeBB versions (advice here also very welcome).

Without further adieu, you can find the source code for the import plugin at the following link: nodebb-plugin-import-phpnuke-phpbb

Looking forward to any feedback!

Been offline for a bit but it looks like this has been addressed. This has been fixed by @julian in commit d33d965 to nodebb-theme-persona and commit 9d202d9 to nodebb.

Thanks Julian!

Not that I'm aware of. If the group is marked hidden then neither a member nor an owner of that group can navigate to the group via http://www.forum.com/groups/some-group. Perhaps I am using the wrong settings though. What I'd like is a group that

1. Doesn't appear in listings to non-members
2. Appears to members and owners or a way for members and owners to navigate to the group management page
3. Is invite only

Originally, I though private would do the trick. However, although private disables join requests, non-members can still see the group in the listings.

Does something like this exist?

Hope so! Seems like there's at least one other site using this port of phpbb. Perhaps more if they cleaned out the attribution footer markup or aren't indexed by google.

@quokka that's an interesting take and I never thought about that. However, I think if the group appears in or is searchable by users that are not in the group, that'd be a no go for our users.

I also realize now that my above statement is inaccurate. If a member navigates directly to the URL of a hidden and private group then they are able to view it. As an intermediate measure, I've trained our moderators to pass these links around so that group members can still get to their group pages. And if the person navigating to the user is marked as a group owner, they are able to navigate to the group page.

The only issue that remains for my use case is a user finding hidden/private groups that they are in.

If I get some time, I'll look into the code to see if there's a way to populate these groups into user profiles as a list or visible in the group listings/search for members. And if that's of interest to the community here, I can share it back through PR to NodeBB or whatever is preferable.

Been offline for a bit but it looks like this has been addressed. This has been fixed by @julian in commit d33d965 to nodebb-theme-persona and commit 9d202d9 to nodebb.

Thanks Julian!

@baris said in Adding "See all chats" for Persona on mobile:

I think the styling should be fixed in the PR, also if you have many chats the see all chats link will be way down at the bottom, maybe it should be at the top on mobile?

(apologies for the giant pictures in this post)

My original thinking was for UI consistency with the notification "see all" button in the left drawer (will add more padding and align font styling if we choose to stick with this direction):

However, I see your point, it would be nice to have the all chats page more accessible than behind a click and a scroll on mobile. I took a swing at a few other treatments that seem inline with other UI practices within the theme. If there's a preference on one of the following, please let me know:

1. See all floating to the right of the section header:
   

2. See all button like the desktop version but floating above the user chats
   

3. My last thought is the chat button could just link directly to the group chats page on mobile.

Not that I'm aware of. If the group is marked hidden then neither a member nor an owner of that group can navigate to the group via http://www.forum.com/groups/some-group. Perhaps I am using the wrong settings though. What I'd like is a group that

1. Doesn't appear in listings to non-members
2. Appears to members and owners or a way for members and owners to navigate to the group management page
3. Is invite only

Originally, I though private would do the trick. However, although private disables join requests, non-members can still see the group in the listings.

Does something like this exist?

I currently have some group owners who would like to keep their groups hidden to non-members but still:

1. Allow members of the group to view the group
2. Manage members

Is there any way to enable either of the two above without giving these individuals access to the entire ACP?

Just brought the forums of a Neverwinter Nights roleplaying server off of phpnuke using a port of phpBB on to NodeBB.

The new forums are hosted at https://narfell.us/forum/

Pinging a few folks for visibility that seem to have committed a fair amount to the repo: @psychobunny @barisusakli @julian

Hi folks! I'm new to the NodeBB community and really enjoying a new install that I just did. So please, if this is the wrong forum to plug a pull request, please let me know. Anyhow, after some feedback from the users of this new install, we picked up on a weird UI difficulty of the see all chats link missing from the mobile chat drawer.

The chats dropdown and chat slideout only display the 10 most recent chats in the Persona theme. For desktop viewing, there is a "See all chats" button that solves the issue of seeing all of a users chat by navigating to the chats page. On mobile, there is no such button. This forces users to manually type in the url to get to the chats page in order to see more than the 10 most recent chats.

PR 424 adds a link to the chats page in the mobile chats slide out drawer.

This is just a functional fix to meet an immediate need and sharing the change back with the core theme. Styling can be picked up separately or through custom styles.

The changes give us something like the following:

Hope so! Seems like there's at least one other site using this port of phpbb. Perhaps more if they cleaned out the attribution footer markup or aren't indexed by google.

Hey there NodeBB community!

I'm posting partially to get the word out for an import plugin that I'm working on for phpbb installs in phpnuke and also to request any tips.

Unfortunately, I can't use the existing phpbb plugin because of how the port for phpnuke mixes the data into phpnuke data in the MySQL database. Regardless, a lot of these importers were incredibly helpful to reference so thank you to all you authors out there (@psychobunny for a lot of them) and to @akhoury for the import plugin.

As it stands, my plugin is working on my NodeBB install at version 1.7.5 stood up behind nginx on linode. I'm planning to upgrade to 1.10.x or latest after I run my final migration and bbcode to markdown conversion pending investigating to plugin support drop off for newer NodeBB versions (advice here also very welcome).

Without further adieu, you can find the source code for the import plugin at the following link: nodebb-plugin-import-phpnuke-phpbb

Looking forward to any feedback!