Videos on how to extend Flarum

luceos

clarkwinkelmann how about tackling an issue on core marked for new contributors?

clarkwinkelmann

Woop I forgot to post an update here before my usual stream time.

This week and next week's stream won't take place on Thursdays. I'm hoping to do it Saturday or Sunday night instead. I'll schedule the stream on YouTube and post about it here when I know which day works best.

I'll come back to Thursdays afterwards.

clarkwinkelmann

I had some issues the last few weeks but I'm back. Next stream tonight, 20:30 CET / 18:30 UTC.

And I should be able to resume streaming on Thursdays next week.

clarkwinkelmann

Now live !

clarkwinkelmann

Join me live in 15 minutes ! (I almost forgot to post)

clarkwinkelmann

End of stream!

Because of some issues on this forum, you might have missed my posts above (not all notifications went out and the discussion didn't rise to the top of the discussion list). If you missed it at least you can check the replay 😇

Next week's stream will be on Halloween night. I want to make something Halloween themed so ideas welcome! Preferably an interesting extension that doesn't have too complex feature(s).

Ralkage

clarkwinkelmann currently using CTF to Catch the Bats and Catch the Ghosts respectively 😏

Give us a good spook, @clarkwinkelmann!

clarkwinkelmann

Join me live in 3 hours for a Halloween special. We will create a pumpkin carving extension!

clarkwinkelmann

Streaming tomorrow evening, 20:30 CET, 19:30 UTC. It might be an hour earlier than before for you if your clock didn't move back (daylight saving madness).

I still have not decided on the topic, so ideas welcome. We might look into improving the fake data generator, but I think that would be a bit boring. Maybe we can do something timezone-related to celebrate DST.

Sorry for skipping last week. First I forgot to schedule the stream on YouTube, then I forgot about it completely on the night as well. So I guess... no one was expecting one anyway ?

clarkwinkelmann

Live in about 30min! I might be a few minutes late.

We will be creating an emoji-based status extension.

clarkwinkelmann

I will skip tonight's stream. In part because I have other things to finish... and also because I have not come up with an idea yet.

Let me know if you have ideas for the next weeks! I'm hesitant to re-take extensions I have already worked on, as it means adding more complex features, and I want to avoid being stuck as much as possible during a stream.

I will try to do 4 other streams until the end of the year, with probably at least one christmas-themed. Then I'll check the analytics and feedback to decide if I continue with that format.

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann Let me know if you have ideas for the next weeks!

There's a feature I miss: being able to see who deleted a message in a discussion without going in the database. I don't know if it's too easy to build as an extension, but I wouldn't be able to do that, so... 🙂

nitaaikumar

clarkwinkelmann Let me know if you have ideas for the next weeks!

A clear cache button for admins somewhere in the front-end profile drop-down would really rock if that is possible. This is there for almost all cache plugins in Wordpress. There won't be any need to go the command line all the time for that. Thanks.

Alkir

clarkwinkelmann Дайте мне знать, если у вас есть идеи на ближайшие недели

Give rewards to users for certain actions on the forum. Example: write the first discussion

Pollux

clarkwinkelmann Let me know if you have ideas for the next weeks!

I have an extension in mind that can be used together with custom CSS in multiple ways. The extension just adds classes to the <body> element like the existing no-touch for a variety of states like the login status, the chosen language, the selected tags for discussions, indicators for pages, user lists etc.

In your video you wouldn't need to provide classes for everything, instead your approach could be used by others to build upon your work.

panteLx

matteocontrini Let me know if you have ideas for the next weeks!

Would be great if you build an addon to push a discussion to the top if a tag in the discussion was updated.

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini the information actually exists in the database, so it shouldn't be too hard to show it.

panteLx I wonder where this idea comes from 😛

Thanks for the comments, I'll see if I can integrate that. It's almost too short, I'd have to combine multiple things in the stream.

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann my suggestion above still stands 😃 it should be easy, I guess?

matteocontrini There's a feature I miss: being able to see who deleted a message in a discussion without going in the database. I don't know if it's too easy to build as an extension, but I wouldn't be able to do that, so... 🙂

EDIT: literally now one of my mods asked me "who deleted this post" 😂

brian85

If you are searching an idea I could suggest you a Firebase extension in order to push messages on any events like private messages via cloud messages I tried a proof of concept but I haven't found the problem why my messages aren't received yet and I no more answers on stackoverflow so...
What is your opinion about such an extension ?

clarkwinkelmann

brian85 that's highly connected with a third party. The Flarum side of that must be very simple. But I know nothing about Firebase, so wouldn't try to debug something built with it. For "simple" things like that, there's clerly more work on testing and debugging than coding.

If I wanted to get familiar with a new service/library like Firebase, I'd probably first build a much simpler app, maybe with some vanilla PHP (or something like Laravel if a framework will ease the process), and if it works, try to re-do it as a Flarum extension.

luceos

nitaaikumar you can clear the cache from the admin dashboard top right corner.

clarkwinkelmann

Alkir I would love to work on something like that one day, but it requires a whole ecosystem. First we need to define what rewards can be. Then we need to implement these rewards (badges, emails, levels, groups, physical goods, ...?). Then we need to implement ways to unlock them. If everything is in a single extension, it would be incredibly massive and I wouldn't make it open-source (unless it's sponsored). If everything is separate extensions, we need to come together and define how these will interact with each others, including maybe a (core) extension to handle the base logic on which extension developers can build upon.

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