Videos on how to extend Flarum

010101

clarkwinkelmann Very well done. I like the new showcase so far. I’d go with 7 seconds. No, I’m kidding. 5 seconds should be fine for most sites unless they are having major issues.

clarkwinkelmann

010101 thanks! I'm trying to find whether I can somehow time how long each website takes to render while I'm talking the screenshot, that way I could have actual data. I don't mind the process taking longer, but I'd love to exploit that unproductive server time to at least produce a few interesting numbers.

I've kept it at 5 seconds for now, all websites seem to render. Now I have issues with the websites that have enabled Cloudflare advanced protection and I have a screenshot of a captcha ahah.

I'm hoping to publish it soon ™️ At least it should be sooner than my other projects because this one is actually kind of simple.

clarkwinkelmann

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We will implement this suggestion about offtopic posts by creating a system for collapsible posts. This will allow grouping a series of posts into a single "expand" button, along with a customizable reason.

If there's time I also want to implement one automated option which collapses posts with a similar content, but it will probably just start with an exact match since I'm not actually sure how I can implement similar content detection 😂

https://youtu.be/NxEh_i9StZQ

Justoverclock

clarkwinkelmann thats fantastic!!!!!!!

clarkwinkelmann

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clarkwinkelmann

Join me on Sunday at 14:00 UTC, 16:00 CET for a new live stream!

We will continue the work on the collapsible posts extension and try to make it suitable for production.

This includes adding customizable collapse reasons, adding the "similar" auto-collapse, and checking for remaining UX issues.

I don't think I'll find a nice solution for collapsed posts permalinks but we'll also investigate whether anything can be done to make them work.

https://youtu.be/AclYMYILs6c

clarkwinkelmann

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clarkwinkelmann

Join me on Sunday at 15:00 UTC, 16:00 CET for a new live stream!

We will write some code related to Matt's 500-LED tree project. If you don't know what this is about, you can take a look at the video on the "Stand-up Maths" YouTube channel (this year) and the video that went viral from last year: "I run untested, viewer-submitted code on my 500-LED christmas tree."

And yes, it will actually be Flarum related. I'll implement a virtual tree that can be displayed inside of Flarum.

https://youtu.be/w7guIBtN3WY

If you are interested in joining live but it's too early for you, let me know here or in the YouTube chat, I might delay the start as I'm not expecting many viewers and I can do it later as well.

clarkwinkelmann

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datlechin

clarkwinkelmann waiting !!!

clarkwinkelmann

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We will implement mass actions in Flarum, first for discussions (hide, restore, delete) but we'll see if we can easily make the same system work with either users or posts.

Depending on the time available, another challenge is to see if we can make it work with tags edit and author change extensions with minimal code duplication.

https://youtu.be/R-9CPrPoBZM

Justoverclock

clarkwinkelmann this is amazing!

luceos

clarkwinkelmann this is a request of mine for core! Please draft PR this 😍

clarkwinkelmann

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peopleinside

clarkwinkelmann this is amazing.
Would this help to delete all post of a specific user also?

I discussed the issue to be not in control here.

clarkwinkelmann

peopleinside maybe just slightly. If a user doesn't have many discussions, you can go to the list and select Delete, then Delete permanently for each one. With this extension you could speed it up a bit by doing the same in a batch. But you will still need to manually load all pages of the user discussion list.

I'm not planning to add the control for posts at the moment because it's even more complicated than the others. And you probably want posts as well.

To limit damage I will probably also not allow direct access to Permanently delete in this extension, I will require to first soft-delete, otherwise it's too risky, because with very few (mis)clicks you could destroy every single recent discussion forever.

It's probably not very complicated to make an extension to one-click delete everything. The problem is just what might break if content is deleted permanently, and how to control what gets deleted in case you don't want to delete everything. In general I'm pretty reluctant to implement anything related to perma-deletion because if not done properly users (in this case, admins!) might accidentally delete stuff forever and then find they don't have a backup...

Is it really a common use case to have to delete everything from a user's history? In my experience users that get suspended and content deleted are spammers, and they generally don't have the time to post a lot of spam before being deleted. So it's not very difficult to delete their content manually if an extension like Stop Forum Spam didn't do it already.

peopleinside

clarkwinkelmann thanks for the answer and for the future extension. I don't need and want an extension that maybe with one click destroy all. Will be great if, opening a user profile and select topic under the relative user profile tab, will allow to soft delete without loose the selection than permanently delete.

Its ok if for the moment will be only for topic, will be useful anyway. Im happy to see this extension burning. I will keep an eye when will be avaiable publicy on the extension tag. Thank you 🙂

clarkwinkelmann

Join me on Sunday at 15:00 UTC, 16:00 CET for a new live stream!

We will continue the work on the mass actions extension. Last week I built the selection UI but didn't manage to start work on any action. This time we will add some actions, and maybe work on making the UI compatible with touch devices as well.

https://youtu.be/W0dwWj49pTE

clarkwinkelmann

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Don't hesitate to ask questions in chat!

clarkwinkelmann

It's been a while since the last video!

I have a new project I want to release as open-source, and I think it'll make a great addition to the series, so I'm going to work on it live in the next few weeks.

I have not decided on the exact dates and times, but will schedule the streams on YouTube soon. I will aim for around 5pm Central Europe time (15h00 UTC) as this seems to be the optimal time to also have the people in America awake. I think I'll do a stream on both Saturday and Sunday this week, 2-3 hours at a time.

Here's the plan for the series, in case anyone has any suggestion or wants to prepare interesting questions that can be answered during the stream:

We will create a Video On Demand module for Flarum. This will include:

A video and series/playlists browser interface with thumbnails
A video player with language and subtitle switchers, and seek thumbnails
Watch profiles and video progress saving
Comments for videos using Flarum

We will not implement video uploads or transcoding, as it is way too complicated. Instead we'll simply build the interface to play files hosted on a dedicated video streaming server. I'm keeping this idea for a potential premium version of the extension.

I think I will re-use my Taxonomies extension to power most of the metadata we will show in addition to video title and description.

I will prepare some video samples between a few minutes and a few hours long to run tests with.

Darkle

clarkwinkelmann Super interesting I won't miss this series! Would this somehow replace the discussion system or will it be something that can work together with a forum?

luceos

clarkwinkelmann I'm looking forward to this and I would be open to fund (a portion) of development to make a Flarum powered video service, so that we can self-host all materials for a future Flarum Community Center 😉

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann We will not implement video uploads or transcoding, as it is way too complicated.

And it's not just that, video delivery is also complex to tune and I'm not sure all of this fits into an extension. Having integrations with services like Mux Video, Cloudflare Stream, api.video, Bunny Stream, JW Player, etc. is probably the wisest choice.

Anyway, I've been involved in building a VoD platform with a heavily personalized video player recently, and I've personally coded the media processing pipeline, so if I can be of help... 🙂

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