Expired Posts

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Expired Posts

A Flarum extension. Mark posts as expired. An alternative to https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/prevent-necrobumping. Huge thanks to the Friends of Flarum group for the necrobumping extension. This uses their code, but changes things up a bit so that there are no replies at all after so many days, and the post is clearly marked as expired.

Discussion list will show post expired (or whatever text you want):

Post page will be "dimmed" stating that the post has expired (text customizable). Also, post nav buttons are hidden:

For me, I wanted it this way because for a certain forum I have, for a particular tag, I want to "expire" posts but still kind of show the post content behind. It's just the effect I personally wanted. With CSS adjustments, you can do something a little different.

Expired class is added to discussion list items so that you may change colors and other things with some custom CSS.

Example:

.DiscussionListItem.Expired {
color: red;
}

Installation

composer require zerosonesfun/expired-posts

Updating

composer update zerosonesfun/expired-posts

Links

Based on an extension by FriendsOfFlarum. This version modified by Billy Wilcosky.

giter

Thanks, this extension is perfect for me!

010101

This extension is ready for the 1.0 stable release of Flarum.

ctml

Is there any class added to the DiscussionListItem in the DiscussionList? If not could that possibly be added, so we can customize CSS for the entire list item. I'd like to override the image and some of the styling, below is just a quick example.

CSS

.DiscussionListItem.Expired{
    background: #f1f1f1;
    margin-top:2px;
    border-radius: 0.2rem;
}
.DiscussionListItem.Expired .DiscussionListItem-main {
    opacity: 0.4;
}
.DiscussionListItem.Expired .Avatar {
    background: url('https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/red-rubber-stamp-icon-on-transparent-background-vector-id918715348?k=6&m=918715348&s=612x612&w=0&h=jX355rehP1qn3sd0xWF1wPek0xGOc5bYeSeh0_h5wjY=');
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    display: block;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    width: 36px;
    height: 36px; 
    padding-left: 36px; 
    background-size:cover;
}

The reason I cannot check the class myself is I am still on beta 15 as I have some dependencies on extensions otherwise I would have installed and tried before asking you.

As a feature request: automatically lock discussions when they are set to expired (I am not sure if there is such a case where an expired discussion would not also be locked.. at least for me).

010101

ctml Really good suggestion! And I should be able to make this happen. 🙂 The class part... auto making them locked is something I still need to learn how to do. But, until then, it will essentially be locked. No one will be able to reply.

010101

ctml Is there any class added to the DiscussionListItem in the DiscussionList? If not could that possibly be added, so we can customize CSS for the entire list item.

I got the class added. Expired posts will now have an additional Expired class. I didn't test your CSS, but it should work.

composer update zerosonesfun/expired-posts

This adds all kinds of possibilities. I just thought about the fact that you could now add .DiscussionListItem.Expired {display:none;} and hide them from the discussion list. If you want a semi/pseudo fully expired post. 🙂 Although a direct link would still get you to the post.

BAANAN

Hey! This extenstion looks really cool! Although i would suggest making a feature where you can select a post to be 'expired', i would love to see this!

010101

BAANAN No plans to add this. You can already lock a post like that.

Of course, pull requests are always welcome.

ctml

BAANAN to add to that, it would be nice to schedule them to expire. Might even be a job for AutoModerator if not this one.

Something like If discussion has tag and last post > 30d, add tag 'expired' (or some other action like lock discussion). And then you perhaps you can use this extension to add that overlay if a discussion has a tag. Then you could manually 'expire' them by adding the tag.

askvortsov

ctml Im not sure how we'd support that one as Automoderator will need a trigger (when X). I'll think about it though.

ctml

askvortsov yeah could be tricky. For something like that I would imagine it would have to run at some kind of defined interval (e.g. daily cron) to evaluate it until true. It's probably not really as simple as that, but I don't think there is a trigger for these types of automations because they are time dependent and not action driven.

Another example would be if discussion has tag && post date > 30d, delete post which would mimic this discourse feature
https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-delete-replies-after-n-days/128759

However there is probably a line in the sand somewhere I guess where you have to decide what is supported by AM and what should be its own extension.

Teddan

Thank you so much! This extension is very helpful!