Making the discussion list slide-out always visible.

SKevo

The goal is simple: make the discussion slide-out always visible in the discussion.

Normally, I would just use CSS, but this bug prevents me from doing that: flarum/core1993

My question is: is there any possible way I could make that sidebar always visible (or at least for the PR to be merged)? Pure CSS/JS solution is preferred. I am creating a CSS snippet that modifies the Flarum look to become a chat-like app, such as Discord, and the sidebar would be perfect for channel/room list. I already got it working when the sidebar "exists", but when I reload the discussion/go directly to it, it disappears, and that's obviously not what I want.

I'm not an extension developer, but could an extension make this possible? This would be my last option, since I'm not looking for an extension/extend.php modification, but rather a CSS/JS solution (the custom ones from the admin panel).

w-4

It's possible. You'd need to create an extension that modifies DiscussionPage.js though.

SKevo

Thank you for the reply, but I'd still prefer a pure CSS or JS solution. I'll check the file to see what can I do though.

w-4

Basically you need to load the discussion list because it's not included in the data when you refresh the page. app.discussions.refreshParams({}) will do that (in flarum beta.14).
Here's a basic implementation:

if (!app.discussions.hasDiscussions()) {
    app.discussions.refreshParams({})
    app.pane.enable()
  }

User24

w-4 where to add this?

pupsik

Just passing through, but I'm guessing

DiscussionPage.js

like stated above, vendor/flarum/core/js/src/forum/components/DiscussionPage.js

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