Some ideas here. Hope you adopt.

SightWeChat

That's right! Flarum is not perfect! It still has many places to improve!
Let me tell you some.

When a discussion is hidden, disable replying automatically. If you don't disable, somebody will spam there but you can't see.
Improve security because I found someone using scripts to send spam. (You know this guy)
Open more APIs. This will allow developers to implement some features through the API. It may be in conflict with the above idea, so that administrators can selectively open these APIs.
Allows the administrator to add custom information in the footer, such as copyright information, filing information, authorization information, statistical scripts, and so on.
Allow everyone to change the color theme and store it in local storage.
Allows users to edit discussions using HTML code, as some HTML elements (like <u> elements) cannot be implemented by Markdown and BBCODE. Also, for security, the <script> element can be filtered out.

I am thing more ideas… ?

clarkwinkelmann

Thanks for your feedback, though a lot of this has already been discussed.

1: indeed, it's not perfect. You might want to open an issue in core if there isn't one already.

2: it's up to you to enable the security extensions Flarum offers (Akismet wasn't enabled on the forum which reported SPAM I believe). Also new extensions are in the work.

3: everything already happens through the API. Anything you can do in the web interface, you can do via the API. What were you thinking of that's not available ?

4: by design Flarum doesn't have a footer. There's an extension for that, though.

5: extensions are being made for that I believe. It's probably not something that will end up in a core extension, but the community might work on it.

6: Flarum uses TextFormatter to store the posts structure, so direct HTML input is not that easy. Additional formatting can be added through the formatter and renderer components of TextFormatter. Many extensions already extend the bbcodes or other formatting.
By the way [u] is a valid bbcode tag that's available with the base Flarum (example)

Let us know if you have other ideas to improve Flarum ! Make sure to search the forum first, there's a lot that has already been discussed ?

Pollux

SightWeChat
1. When a discussion is hidden, disable replying automatically. If you don't disable, somebody will spam there but you can't see.

Why should someone spam a forum if the content is hidden from anyone but himself and the forum staff?

jordanjay29

SightWeChat When a discussion is hidden, disable replying automatically. If you don't disable, somebody will spam there but you can't see.

Only the OP of a soft-deleted (hidden) discussion can see it (besides admins and mods). If they decide to use it to spam, then a site's administrators have the ability to lock it, permanently delete it, or suspend the user. I'm not sure further measures are necessary in core.

Of course, someone could definitely write an extension (or extend Flarum's Lock extension) to auto-lock deleted discussions.