Color Circles for Groups

clarkwinkelmann

Color Circles for Groups

This Flarum extension adds color circles around avatars based on their group

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To install the latest version compatible with your forum:

composer require clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-circle-groups

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Nice !! Very useful

clarkwinkelmann

In case some of you are confused, this extension is not new, it's been around since beta 6, but never had its own discussion on the forum. It started as a simple proof of concept but apparently many of you have installed it on their forum.

So following many queries for update, here it is, finally compatible with beta 8 😉

Leanna

clarkwinkelmann Wow, you are my idol, great.

ChadJessen

Nice extension

meetdilip

Awesome +1

Digital

Bear hugs for @clarkwinkelmann 🐻 🤗

luceos

What happens if you're part of multiple groups? Just curious 😊

matteocontrini

luceos it seems it takes the first (the leftmost I think)

https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-circle-groups/blob/09d85203fa13fd34b42174d8ca3258379f283c07/js/src/forum/index.js#L20

MikeJones

matteocontrini I was hoping it would be equal parts each color lol

clarkwinkelmann

MikeJones I was hoping it would be equal parts each color lol

that's more complicated 🙉

matteocontrini it seems it takes the first

Yes it was made as simple as possible. Depending on the order groups appear, you might not get the expected result.

I you put a bounty on those features I might implement them 😇

Kakifrucht

Cool extension! How about also coloring the circles on user profiles and user cards?

Kakifrucht

MikeJones I second this, that would be cool.

clarkwinkelmann

Just released version 0.2.1 which fixes the extension to handle deleted users https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-circle-groups/issues/2 . In previous versions the frontend would break when browsing a discussion containing a post from a deleted user. Thanks @matteocontrini for the report.

Gatsu

Hi @clarkwinkelmann ,
your extension becomes incompatible if colored username is present. In fact, if I activate both, only the last activated works so I am obliged to use only one.
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/22411-coloured-usernames

clarkwinkelmann

Gatsu I'm not seeing any obvious problem by reading the code. I'll try to to a test when I have some time.

Did you try clearing the cache after enabling both extensions?

Mark73

Gatsu Yup, I tried to enable both extensions at the same time, one works and the other doesn't!

AADev

Gatsu your extension becomes incompatible if colored username is present

@clarkwinkelmann I am also having this problem 🙂
The extension that will be enabled later will have effect and the other will lose effect

Also, is there any extension for highlighting staff members post and changing color borders to staff group color?

Gatsu

clarkwinkelmann Yes, I did it

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann since what the other extension does is changing the text color with literally three lines of code, wouldn't it be easier to just incorporate the feature in this extension? 🙂

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini but then it would require settings to control which features are enabled. It's easier to have two extensions and enabling/disabling each feature by enabling/disabling the extension.

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann but then it would require settings to control which features are enabled

Probably

clarkwinkelmann It's easier to have two extensions and enabling/disabling each feature by enabling/disabling the extension.

Mmm not sure how that would be easier? Having two extensions for such small features seems an overkill to me. Both need to be kept updated by the maintainer, and they are a pretty useless duplication of code, aren't they? The other extension is a copy-paste of this one with just a few lines changed :/

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini I can't say I'm not bothered by the code duplication, but it would require more code to make those two features into toggleable features of a same extension than having two separate code bases.

And the re-used code is so simple and so short I don't think it's even worth the effort to change how it was done.

Also, I'm only maintaining one, and I don't think this extension needs to contain any more code or features 😇