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Post by Hyruu on Sept 3, 2013 16:53:30 GMT -6
Well, I've been browsing the plugins that were available for the forum, and I've been surprised to see rather interesting ideas. I shouldn't take the decision to add something alone, this is why I'm making this thread. I'm simply going to toss in some nice plugins I saw there, so that we can discuss about them together.
Moderation tools : Multiple post automerge - pretty self explanatory Switch it - Automatically replacing words by some others, useful to prevent common words from even appearing (I know DrA had the same with damn being replaced by daisy XD) Signature Manager - To avoid users from making too long signatures
Notifications : Notifications in Browser tabs Notifications Alert PM alert
Usernames customization : Styled Member Names - I think we're going to like this one ^^
Forum customization : Pagination Control - I wouldn't mind removing that ugly floating page control Color status messages - Allows colors in the status messages Spoiler tags - Because we don't have them ^^ Member lock - Apparently members can't lock their own threads
Oh and I'm making a test, but apparently you can ping users ? Fuzzball It seems like you need to ping username and not display name, meh. Also I tried I don't have permissions to install plugins ><
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Post by Fuzzball on Sept 3, 2013 17:09:30 GMT -6
Awesome job, Hyruu! I'm in the process of downloading some of the plugins to test, I'll soon give you permissions, Hyruu!
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Post by Sylar on Sept 3, 2013 17:29:49 GMT -6
ooh these are interesting! The multi post automerge would be very useful wow! Can't wait to see how this goes!
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Post by Fuzzball on Sept 3, 2013 17:34:09 GMT -6
Also, how do you ping users? Using '@'?
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 3, 2013 17:40:35 GMT -6
Yeah, @ username. Though it's the username and not display name, so for example to ping you I have to ping admin...
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Sept 4, 2013 18:37:02 GMT -6
I think we should implent all Username Customization and all Forum Customization you have listed there ^.=.^ I also like the Multiple Post Automerge.
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Post by Fuzzball on Sept 5, 2013 13:52:28 GMT -6
I agree with Luna. If you ever have the time, Hyruu, could you test the other things that you have on the list? I am, however, a little hesitant about the Member Lock. I don't know if I could cause problems, but I would say implement it anyway and we'll see how it goes. :3
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Sept 5, 2013 19:22:34 GMT -6
We had the Member Lock in DrA, and I've used it before. It's actually quite useful.
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Post by Sylar on Sept 5, 2013 20:16:29 GMT -6
yes and I'm pretty sure mods can overrule it too
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 6, 2013 6:34:18 GMT -6
So, I added some of the plugins here to test a bit. The signature manager sounds nice, but we actually have to wonder what to do with it. The main functionality I already enabled was the character count for the signature (apparently it's 500 characters, but not tested), and what we might consider is the image maximum height/width. Though we have to decide what maximum size we should put. I disabled this ugly floating pagination thing. Now, the pages are shown only at the top and at the bottom of a forum page. That's far better in my opinion ! Like you could have guessed, I also messed with the Styles Member names thing. To test it I put all the staff members usernames in bold. That's just a test, but it's just for you to notice it's possible ^^ We can change colors and bold of any group or member. Next is...
{Click me !}IT'S A SPOILER TAG !
Since it's not native, though, it doesn't show the actual spoiler while editing. As long as the result works anyway... Then, I activated the Member Lock plugin. I'm not worry at all about this one, since it only allows user to lock the posts THEY created. I even wonder why they didn't allow it in the first place. As it's not native, it's not exactly the same kind of lock a mod has, in the options it's called "Creator Lock" apparently. This means, moderators can freely remove or put any Creator Lock, as well as the classic lock that only other mods can remove. Also, colored status messages ! Though the color doesn't show when looking at the profile, so looks a bit weird in the profile.
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 6, 2013 6:34:53 GMT -6
And last thing is the auto-merge function. This part is an other post ! It doesn't exactly merge the posts in fact, it makes it look like they're merged. You might notice you can select one post or the other, and you can't edit them both at the same time. The thing I wonder is if it actually does a bump or not.
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 6, 2013 6:55:21 GMT -6
A third post to try something...
{This is a spoiler} {It's still a spoiler !} {Wait, is this another one ?} {It was one !} And this one as well !
So yeah spoilers are stackable.
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Post by Sylar on Sept 6, 2013 10:44:15 GMT -6
I really like the bolding of the staff.
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Sept 6, 2013 19:08:04 GMT -6
The bolding makes the color more pronounced~
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NFSRacer
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Post by NFSRacer on Sept 9, 2013 19:46:59 GMT -6
For the signature manager, I also noticed there was an issue with DrA in terms of adding in long links into the signature and those links taking up more and more of the character count. Is that fixed here?
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 10, 2013 5:56:00 GMT -6
I never met that issue. What do you exactly mean ? All I know is that here, you have 500 characters for the signature. The plugin seems slightly bugged though, the character count appears twice... But since we can't go into the code there's no way to correct that.
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 10, 2013 6:02:57 GMT -6
Oh and, I finally found that plugin I had seen. So now to ping someone that's either @username or {displayname}. It replaces the {displayname} with @username the second you put that }
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Sept 10, 2013 19:36:42 GMT -6
Oh, cool!
And I think NFS means that links to sites are long, and, while the picture may not take up much space, the characters in the link do, making it very easy to go over the 500 character limit. That's my guess, anyway.
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NFSRacer
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Post by NFSRacer on Sept 10, 2013 21:21:17 GMT -6
Oh, cool!
And I think NFS means that links to sites are long, and, while the picture may not take up much space, the characters in the link do, making it very easy to go over the 500 character limit. That's my guess, anyway.
Exactly, that's very much what I mean, Lun! Is there a way to have the plug-in filter out BBCode?
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 11, 2013 5:57:55 GMT -6
No, there's no way to. Considering the way the plugin seems to work, I feel like the 500 characters limit is set by ProBoards, on this side the only thing the plugin does is to actually indicate how many characters left you have. For this kind of problem, better find out a way to shrink the url like tinyurl or something like that.
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