Show profile picture of the last person replied, rather than OP - Pledge £100

Wellwisher

I want the person who replied last, to show their profile picture
As shown in demo pic
Needs to be sever-load friendly
These changes in "all discussions" page should be ignored for private messaging extensions

luceos

Wellwisher I think these requirements are very valid:

create an extension that is publicly available on github.com or gitlab.com under the MIT license
avatar shown on discussion list should reflect last posted user avatar
as this avatar should be different for byobu discussions vs regular ones, best would probably creating a new API field for this avatar and seeding it based on the type of discussion

I am enabling bounties for this.

Umutcan

This topic and answer may work for you.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/29744-last-posted-user-avatar-in-discussionlist/

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/29744-last-posted-user-avatar-in-discussionlist/20

Wellwisher

Umutcan thanks man however it's not exactly what I want. It's showing two members profile pictures and it looks cluttered and pointless. I just want the last poster.

Also the extension seems to duplicate the user if the first poster is the only person who's replied:

Wellwisher

luceos Happy to pay directly with PayPal of £100 (I will take care of Paypal fees, the dev will NET £100).

I don't know much about Stripe payments so you can understand my concern. I use Paypal mainly because the few times I've had problems, I could phone or email them and they have been prompt to resolve issues. Plus all the major outlets use them.

Flarum needs to change payments to PP OR at least, it needs to become an alternative way of paying... otherwise it's gonna lose dono's.

Wellwisher

rob006 What is special with Byobu?

I am just going by Luceos' input:

luceos as this avatar should be different for byobu discussions vs regular ones, best would probably creating a new API field for this avatar and seeding it based on the type of discussion

SychO

Should be an extension

luceos

SychO added 🙏

rob006

Wellwisher Check https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32368-last-post-avatar. I have not tested this extensions with Byobu.

Wellwisher

rob006 Check https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32368-last-post-avatar. I have not tested this extensions with Byobu.

Any chance someone can test this extension with Byōbu please?

I am slow with testing extensions. 😂

Once everything is legitness, I'll settle the bounty.

rob006

Wellwisher Any chance someone can test this extension with Byōbu please?

What is special with Byobu? AFAIK it uses standard avatar logic and I'm not sure why Byobu discussions should behave differently in terms of avatars , than regular discussions.

rob006

Wellwisher AFAIK he was referring to your request in first post:

These changes in "all discussions" page should be ignored for private messaging extensions

rob006

I just tested Byobu with https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32368-last-post-avatar, and it works fine. But it does not have any special rules for displaying avatars - it works in the same way as for regular discussions.

CyberGene

rob006 thanks for the extension!

Wellwisher

rob006 Having special rules is the correct way of building this extension and that's why I am willing to pay the premium. I am slowly aiming to build my forum like https://brickrr.com. Hence, I want to ensure the avatars are only changed in certain areas of the forum.

If I wanted a quick solution, I would have installed Last posted user Avatar in DiscussionList and created some janky CSS to make it all work. 😂

I look at long-term solutions for my production site. Whenever I install extensions, I am constantly thinking of:

Longevity (i.e will it work with future extensions & new themes) or will it break my forum
Is the extension an overkill (can this be solved using a more simple solution)
Do I have the time to maintain the extension if the author discontinues it?
Is the feature necessary to my community and if there's no solution, what's a reasonable price to have it made?

luceos

Wellwisher Having special rules is the correct way of building this extension and that's why I am willing to pay the premium.

Crowdfunding is about everyone's opinion, not just yours. You are also not paying the premium, the premium would be having this custom built, regardless of how it is published. Nevertheless the requirement is set for the payout to happen and the extension by @rob006 - although good of intent - does not meet them.

@rob006 if you'd incorporate the feature request, we can close this and pay open bounties, should you like to consider it.

rob006

luceos Right now I don't have plans to make an exception for Byobu and any other extension. This would increase complexity and add unnecessary coupling with unrelated extension. And I still do not understand reasoning behind this requirement - Byobu is using default component do display private discussions on list (and they can be mixed with regular discussions), having different behavior here is inconsistent and confusing. IMO it would make more sense to customize these discussions directly in Byobu extension.

But if someone knows clean way of detecting these private discussions (or create some generic API to detect non-standard discussions), I could merge it to my extension. I have no claims to the declared bounties, so the author of the solution will get all of them.

rob006

rob006 But if someone knows clean way of detecting these private discussions (or create some generic API to detect non-standard discussions), I could merge it to my extension. I have no claims to the declared bounties, so the author of the solution will get all of them.

This was implemented by @Nearata and available in latest release: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32368-last-post-avatar/9

luceos

This sounds like all requirements have been completed? @Wellwisher can you confirm.

Wellwisher

luceos, I am not a pro-coder bro. 😂
Well done lads, brilliant work. This will be much appreciated by the flarum community.

I think @rob006 has implemented everything in their extension so maybe I'll just pay them directly and he can pay what he wants to @Nearata

@rob006 what's your paypal?
Let me know so I can settle my end of the bounty, thanks.