Some Questions on Features

jasperkade · 2015-06-29T06:42:23+00:00

Hey folks, firstly this is an amazing platform - I've been looking around for a modern forum platform for a while, going over Discourse, bbpress, plushForums, Muut, using Slack as a forum and on and on, and so far this is looking like first prize to be sure. I love the simplicity and speed, but also the intuitive way it works as a 'modern' forum solution. I'm coming from actively using a few forums that are old school like VB etc. and so as a proper end-user here I need to ask about some features that I feel are sort of missing - or maybe aren't? But let me know.. How does a user pretty up their text in this editor for instance? Bold, underline, italics, etc. ? Can I privately message another user/member? Can I create ordinary pages with Flarum, so can my forum site have an 'about' or a 'Guidelines' page etc. ? Where can I see an example of the Admin backend? Will Flarum be easy to install on something like DigitalOcean? Will it support Gravatars? Perhaps as an option in user settings? Any sort of Wordpress integration ability? Anyways, excellent work once again, looking forward to this being released..

Dominion

jasperkade Someone else got there first:

http://discuss.flarum.org/d/198/idea-topic-cover-backgrounds/10

Toby

jasperkade it would be cool to set featured images per section/tag/category

Yes, it's planned! I'm excited about this one 😃

Dominion

It's planned? Woohoo!

Edit:
I should probably explain this enthusiasm, given my less-than-enthusiastic response in the thread I linked above. The more I think about this idea, the more I think I'll probably end up using it.

Toby

Per-tag, that is, not per-discussion.

Dominion

Hm? Wait a minute, I must have been reading that wrong.

I assumed they were talking about per-tag. Yes, per-tag makes much more sense.

Anyhow .... woohoo!

jasperkade

Q: How do I upload an inline image from my desktop? (and will this be part of the core reply box tool bar?)

And, is there a 'forum statistics' feature I'm not aware of - like totals for Users, Posts, Current members online etc. etc. ?

Franz

Statistics are on the roadmap, yes.

Dominion

jasperkade As for uploading images, that'll be handled by an extension:

http://discuss.flarum.org/d/236/attachments/1

I guess that posting an inline image at present would involve hosting it somewhere on the internet and linking to it.

MattCx

Dominion That extension link seems to be broken... Is there an updated link? Thanks! 🙂

Dominion

MattCx The forum URL structure has changed a bit since that was written. Now it should be:

http://discuss.flarum.org/d/236-attachments/1