First Post Approval

clarkwinkelmann

User18 0.1.4 is the latest version and is compatible with both Flarum beta 15 and 16.

I'm not able to reproduce using your instructions (tested on beta 16 only). A freshly enabled user can create discussions and see them fine on my test forum.

There's something odd with your output. It seems like you don't have Flarum Approval enabled. You should not have been able to enable First Post Approval without first enabling Approval, and likewise it shouldn't be possible to disable Approval while First Post Approval is enabled. If Approval is indeed disabled, then it's certainly why it doesn't work. Try enabling it.

If you are able to disable Approval while First Post Approval is enabled, then there must be a bug in Flarum because Flarum should prevent you from doing it.

User18

Sorry I should have mentioned I disabled Approval and First Post Approval after I couldn't fix that problem. Like you said I Approval needs to be enabled for First Post Approval to be enabled. I will try and investigate a bit more and see if I can figure out what's happening.

clarkwinkelmann

User18 the most likely extension in that list that could cause trouble would be Byobu I'd say (because it alters which discussions are visible to who). I've never tested the two extensions together. You could try disabling Byobu temporarily to see if anything changes. And you can also try the same with other extensions to see if anything changes.

User18

clarkwinkelmann I'll give it a try! Thanks for your help.

User18

clarkwinkelmann Everything seems to work now (even with Byobu enabled). Not sure what changed. Thanks for your help!

I wouldn't mind contributing some money to helping you make it compatible with Byobu. Maybe I should PM you about that. I think this should be a fof extension because it's so invaluable to fighting spam and way simpler to use than captcha.

clarkwinkelmann

User18 sometimes it's the order in which extensions were enabled that can cause issues.

If everything's fine now then the two extensions are probably working fine together. Unless we can find a clear error when the two are used together, then there's probably nothing to change.

You can contact me via email or Discord DM if you want a quote for a change or additional features. You can also donate through the Paypal link in the extension README or through GitHub sponsors if you would like.

FriendsOfFlarum already has many extension to manage, and historically they have focused on extensions that no longer had any maintainer. This extension is also quite simple so it doesn't require too much work to maintain. Once we reach Flarum stable an extension like this one should continue to work for a very long time.

Kulga

This is such a great plugin.
I have it set to only require approval on the first discussion, with a sql query that runs periodically to check for metrics (like if others liked their post), and if it does it sets their first_discussion_approval_count to 1.
This way the majority of my real users never require manual approval.

I was having a big spam problem and had moderators getting upset. I think the people posting spam get paid for simply having a spam discussion successfully be visible, so even taking them down and banning quickly didn't do much.
This completely disrupted that whole system. After a few weeks of a post never getting through, I think they gave up. 👍️

Pollux

Kulga After a few weeks of a post never getting through, I think they gave up.

That's my observation too.

luceos

Kulga interesting implementation, something like this should be an extension 😃

MikeJones

Any updates on if/when this will be updated for beta 16? I am down to my final couple of extensions before I can update 😃

Kulga

MikeJones

clarkwinkelmann Released version 0.1.4 with Flarum beta 16 compatibility.

MikeJones

Kulga interesting extiverse showed it wasnt. Thanks!

clarkwinkelmann

I have made the choice to not bottom-limit the Flarum version upon update because that way, new bugfixes will still be compatible with both beta 15 and 16. I only update the lower requirement if the extension needs a feature only available in the new beta. The extension code did not require any change, so I just upped the maximum allowed version.

You can also check https://discuss.flarum.org/d/25287-clarks-extensions to see at a glance which of my extensions are compatible based on human-written information.

clarkwinkelmann

Released version 1.0.0 with Flarum 1.0 compatibility.

jaypatelani

Is there a possible way to show notice to new users that their first post or comment will need Approval so hang for a while until admin approves users post.

clarkwinkelmann

jaypatelani what would you show and where?

The ability to add some additional text in the discussion/reply composer would actually be a good idea for a separate extension. I know a few extensions add warnings there but it might not be easily re-usable for this.

The only benefit of being included in this extension would be to show the message only based on the current threshold. Maybe a classname could be added to the composer so the style or message added by another extension can be toggled using a bit of custom CSS.

CyberGene

Is this 1.2 compatible?

clarkwinkelmann

CyberGene most likely yes but I haven't tried yet.

I'm relying on user reports to know if any extension I don't use myself is broken on 1.2. If something's wrong I'll take a look as soon as possible.

Hari

CyberGene Most of the extensions will work till 2.0 without any issues. There is no specific update to the extension is required until there are some real issues. 👍 Feel free to try it won't break your flarum . Always take backups before you start testing

CyberGene

I tested it on 1.2 and it works, thanks! Is there any way to send an email when a user's post needs an approval? I guess that may be a question for the "Flag post" extension?

Hari

CyberGene if you are a admin you can set email notification when someone starts a new discussion (not sure this must be in settings)

CyberGene Is there any way to send an email when a user's post needs an approval?

you need to manually compose email using Mailing extension by clark

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/20443-mailing

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