loading issue with flags (920 pending posts)

Hari

i have almost 920 yet approve posts, when I hit the flag icon it's loading slowly 😅 is there any way to load it fastly

any better way to optimize it? I'm using Redis (sessions, cache, queue)

of course, I will be clearing all pending posts but it may take 2-3 days 😬

SychO

Hari The flags extension loads all the flags and returns them, it assumes there can't be a situation where you could end up with such a crazy amount of unattended flags.

If you could make an issue in the repository so that it's logged, as it'd be better to paginate like the notifications, despite the fact that admins shouldn't normally have such a high number of flags.

xasharma

Hari Same here .... I have 1k+ Pending posts and I want to delete most of them.

You can also view them all on a single page by this URL - yourdomain.xyz/flags

Feedback -

Pending posts and flagged posts are counted under flagged posts. These two should be differentiated. One other problem with this thing is that anyone with permission to view the flagged post can also see approval pending posts.
To explain it in depth -
My mod has permission to view the flagged posts. I want him to only take care of the posts which are flagged by users.
But he also gets all the flagged posts (included which have to be approved).
He doesn't have the permission to approve the posts but he gets the same no. of flagged posts as me. And this creates a huge confusion for my mod to know which posts are being flagged by users and which are new (under approval).
A little addon to the above statement is that (he has permission to view the flagged posts and doesn't have permission to approve the posts) If he clicks on any of the under approval posts, it doesn't open for him but he can see the title and a little bit of info about it.

And there is an extension named Mass actions .... there should an option for flagged posts also to delete them (not only soft delete but completely delete option)
For example I wrote a post at 12:00 am and it was approved at 5:00 pm. The post will go down without any viewing to users if there are posts that were updated before 5:00 pm.
Every time I approve a post I had to edit its time so that for users it can be seen on the top as a new post.

Hari

SychO I understand it's an exceptional case (i am sitting on a unique chair) 😅 i think i am pushing the limits of flarum these days. I am enjoying it. 🌼 it's a beast 😍

i don't know how to properly put it in words on GitHub, but i will try. 🙂

edit: I am not getting an option to create the issue, I don't know why

https://github.com/flarum/flags

clarkwinkelmann

Hari all issues for core and core extensions are managed at https://github.com/flarum/core/issues

Hari

flarum/core3009 Done! 👍

Hari

What does it mean if a issue Hari is in archive luceos Is it solved or planned to solve in future or dismissed?

These both are similar discussions.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30308-dedicated-page-for-flagged-posts-and-notifications/2

@Justoverclock you are a problem solver 🥰 is this a tiny extension?

luceos

Scalability is on top of our priorities, thanks for explaining what happened and reporting it in 👍️

Hari

I have noticed another thing: let's say if we have 500 pending posts in one single discussion and if we are scrolling down sometimes I'm not getting approve, delete, dismiss buttons. In order to get them, we need to reload the page using the post URL. (is it happening due to heavy pending posts?)

clarkwinkelmann

Hari there is this known issue that can cause the approval controls to not show up flarum/core2404

It could ahappen during scrolling if posts further up/down are loaded via mentions I think.

Hari

could you consider adding this kind of page where we can view all unapproved discussions? I think that is the only solution where we can directly access all discussions on one page without hitting the flag button.

if we have a dedicated page that will get "load more" button we can simply request 20-30 posts by hitting it.

Justoverclock

Hari well... if luceos is working on that, i prefer definitely his solution 🙂

Hari

xasharma yes true. I want to add one more line

Why do guys do not auto approve posts?

It's very complicated to explain, people share thier phone numbers in posts there is no way to censorship this activity and there is no way to auto redacted this . We have almost 20k monthly active users on one of the flarum we can not send warnings to each and everyone.

I want a feature where if user mentions links or numbers i want it to be reviewed by human. (Recently mkbhd has done a video on this about people posting random links)

YouTube, Facebook groups does have good moderation tools

https://gvectors.com/product/comments-censure-pro/

clarkwinkelmann

Just to point out the technical aspects, Flags have been implemented in Flarum as a general-purpose way to mark discussions for review.

Approval actually does 2 things, it marks content as requiring approval, and then flags the content. You can actually dismiss the flag on unapproved content without approving it. You could also approve it without removing the flag (only via the REST API).

We currently don't have any good way of filtering which flags are visible to which users since flags are just that general-purpose concept. Flags have a type though (currently only used to change the labels and look), so it would technically be possible to configure permissions/visibility for each type separately. This would make the Flags extension more complex though and since it was meant as a simple way to centralize content awaiting moderation I'm not sure this is something we actually want in core (?)

The flag count is always loaded dynamically so extending the visibility scope of flags would automatically fix the count label as well.

Having per-type flag visibility scoping could be a good idea for a community extension. The most complicated part is probably to build a good admin configuration UI, not even the visibility scoping part.