Synopsis

either way, how to make youtube iframe centered anywhere? Iframe thing. even on post itself? just like video:

video {
  width: 95%;
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

Something I would love to see on this extension as it so almost hits the mark, especially as the "Discussion Cards" extension causes massive forum loading problems for some reason.

When configuring the extension you can choose first or last post for the synopsis and can enable, images, embeds and other non text elements may be included in the synopsis. this bit would be excellent for a classifieds section if only you could have a sort order exception for selected tags, where it could be first instead of last!

Last is great for normal discussions...but a classifieds section ideally needs first, because the first post usually contains a Photo and some core details in the first 250 or so characters.
@IanM

huuduy216 how difficult is it to make an alternative layout for this that look something like Discussion Card? I'm willing to put down 50 USD for it.

It doesn't need anything complicated. The normal sort order required is usually last post.

In a classified ad area though, the first post is the one that has the images....so the ability to make a tag area an exception and to sort by first post would solve the problem. I would hope it would be easier, but I don't know?
@IanM

Especially as Flarum has no classified software at all and "Discussion Cards" absolutely breaks a forum.

OK thanks...it's handy if you can look at discussion cards as well because I loaded 3 extensions and people are experiencing problems
Coloured Usernames, Edit Posts Buttons, Synopsis

The first 2 i disabled and i think the problems may have gone away, but I am hoping it's not Synopsis. Have a read at of todays posts in that area and you will see screenshots.

https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/115-random-issues-on-forum-no-likequotereplyphotos-is-it-just-me/187

Update, those three extensions were not the problem...I checked my records and found I had added 4 extensions and it was one called "Discussion Views" I removed discussion views and everything is back to normal. The biggest problem it caused was blank screens and double tag headers if you tried to view the forum from an external link, into a specific subject.
e.g. if you tried to click on this thread https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/330-the-general-acs-minima-thread/185
You could get no posts showing and the tag area header showing twice. Viewing it from within the forum links worked fine though.

IanM In theory it should be too difficult to allow additional config, say on a per tag first/last post setup.

I'll also take a peek at Discussion Cards and see both what styling that uses, and if I can see what the issues are with it

Will report back once I know some more

I have been using it on my forum and there are a couple of things which would make it a really well rounded extension, if they are possible to do.

• Sort order by tag. e.g. first/last

• Allowing both tag specifications "Summary excerpt length in characters" and Display "excerpts using rich content" to take precedence

This means Synopsis settings works on the standard "all discussions" landing page many forums use....but is overridden by any individual tag settings. It prevents then the summary of all discussions' page becoming overly wordy and displaying blank areas when there are not enough characters to show an image, or where the user precedes an image with enough text that insufficient characters are left to display that image.

In tags though the Tag definition takes precedence, for characters and rich text.

So I might enable the extension with characters as 200 and display rich content disabled...giving a nice neat summary of discussions.

But in the Classifieds tags use 600 characters and display rich content...telling people to put the photo as the first thing.

Effectively classifieds can look like this.

While all discussions can look like this

Instead of this

I hope it's clear.

IanM

OK thanks.

I just tested it it out and the tag bit works well for a per tag excerpt size and rich or non-rich text and even better that carries through to "all discussions"...which is exactly what is required for classifieds. When an advert is place, it's best to carry the image through for them...so we wait.

Once you make the new version, it will become a very powerful tool for forums.

Suggestion: Instead of three dots right after set max character, let it finish printing that word. If the very last word is flarum: instead of potentially being fl… it would be flarum… regardless of max characters set. I guess this would have to be new setting.

I got this to show on mobile & without the user having to login & with no text.

Here is how I did it:

disabled: !this.user.preferences().showSynopsisExcerpts,

Delete that part in the forum.js file. Likely going to screw up settings, but you can remove with CSS:

.item-synopsis{

display: none;

}

You may have the unminify to read properly.

In the less file, delete the display:none for mobile entry.

In custom CSS:

.DiscussionListItem-info .item-excerpt{

font-size:0 !important;
}

Boom. No superfluous text. No having to sign in to see. It will grab the first image if you have excerpt limit to 800 or more. Not the most efficient (because the text is still loaded in DOM and thus will take up resources and look ugly in the console), but will work until update.