FriendsOfFlarum Byōbu, well integrated, advanced private discussions

hepaly FriendsOfFlarum/byobu164

1.0.2

• Added recipientUsers include for CreateDiscussionController FriendsOfFlarum/byobu166
• Support custom user sluggers and fix profile private discussions tab FriendsOfFlarum/byobu0cf8b3b
• Disable tag scoped permissions FriendsOfFlarum/byobufca4d92

Upgrading

composer require fof/byobu:"*"
php flarum cache:clear

1.1.0

• Reintroduce the ability to remove all reciepients, add a tag and make the discussion visible to users with tag view permission. Disabled by default. FriendsOfFlarum/byobu167

Updating

composer require fof/byobu:"*"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

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Seems like this hepaly issue is still exists after upgrade 1.1.0
I created a video about this problem.

Flarum core 1.1.1
PHP version: 8.1.0
MySQL version: 5.7.34-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, json, pcntl, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, apcu, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, iconv, imagick, imap, intl, exif, memcache, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, Phar, posix, pspell, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sqlite3, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tidy, tokenizer, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Zend OPcache
+----------------------------------+------------+------------------------------------------+
| Flarum Extensions                |            |                                          |
+----------------------------------+------------+------------------------------------------+
| ID                               | Version    | Commit                                   |
+----------------------------------+------------+------------------------------------------+
| flarum-flags                     | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-tags                      | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-lock                      | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| afrux-forum-widgets-core         | v0.1.6     |                                          |
| flarum-suspend                   | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-approval                  | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| zerosonesfun-up                  | 1.0        |                                          |
| v17development-seo               | v1.8.0     |                                          |
| v17development-blog              | 0.4.2      |                                          |
| ubuntuhu-map                     | dev-master | 4649dd16b2ea238c436aa31b1d3bfe23d732ed81 |
| ralkage-hcaptcha                 | 1.0.0      |                                          |
| nearata-twofactor                | v2.0.1     |                                          |
| miniflar-admin-notepad-widget    | 1.0.0      |                                          |
| justoverclock-welcomebox         | 1.3.4      |                                          |
| justoverclock-hot-discussions    | 0.1.2      |                                          |
| justoverclock-custom-html-widget | 0.1.4      |                                          |
| ianm-syndication                 | 1.0.2      |                                          |
| fof-user-bio                     | 1.0.1      |                                          |
| fof-upload                       | 1.0.7      |                                          |
| fof-spamblock                    | 1.0.2      |                                          |
| fof-sitemap                      | 1.0.2      |                                          |
| fof-reactions                    | 1.0.2      |                                          |
| fof-polls                        | 1.0.5      |                                          |
| fof-pages                        | 1.0.1      |                                          |
| fof-nightmode                    | 1.1.5      |                                          |
| fof-merge-discussions            | 1.0.1      |                                          |
| fof-linguist                     | 1.0.3      |                                          |
| fof-cookie-consent               | 1.0.1      |                                          |
| fof-byobu                        | 1.1.0      |                                          |
| fof-best-answer                  | 1.1.7      |                                          |
| flarum-subscriptions             | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-sticky                    | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-statistics                | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-pusher                    | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-nicknames                 | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-mentions                  | v1.1.3     |                                          |
| flarum-markdown                  | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-likes                     | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-lang-hungarian            | v2.0.15    |                                          |
| flarum-lang-english              | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| flarum-emoji                     | v1.1.1     |                                          |
| flarum-bbcode                    | v1.1.0     |                                          |
| davwheat-custom-sidenav-links    | 1.0.1      |                                          |
| darkle-fancybox                  | 0.2        |                                          |
| clarkwinkelmann-group-list       | 1.0.0      |                                          |
| askvortsov-pwa                   | v3.1.1     |                                          |
| antoinefr-online                 | v1.0.1     |                                          |
| afrux-forum-stats-widget         | v0.1.0     |                                          |
| acpl-mobile-tab                  | 1.0.5      |                                          |
+----------------------------------+------------+------------------------------------------+
Base URL: https://ubuntu.hu
Installation path: /var/www/ubuntu.hu/public_html
Queue driver: sync
Mail driver: smtp
Debug mode: off

Can I help with debug?
I tried rebuild (npm run build), but doesnt solve this problem.

Hello,
is there a possibility to show the news not in the main view but only when you click on the menu item? So it is unfortunately a bit confusing.

@FriendsOfFlarum @IanM I have a feature request that is it possible for you to implement unlisted option in this extension, If you know there's a video sharing platform named YouTube where users can mark their videos unlisted in that state the video is only shown to user who is having the link to that video.

username0136 how would that work exactly?

You mean not specify any recipients but manually send the link to select users?

That sounds out of scope for this extension since the whole recipient and authorization system wouldn't be used. It shouldn't be too difficult to make a special discussion type appear in the visibility scope but not the index endpoint for users who aren't authors in a new extension.

One problem is that with the default discussion slugger, IDs are predictable so a different slugger would have to be used. Even the ID system would have to be changed because you can read/post to discussions using the API with just the ID without any need for the slug.

Other option would be to include a secret token in the URL but that sounds way more complicated than unguessable IDs coupled with native permissions.

clarkwinkelmann You mean not specify any recipients but manually send the link to select users?

No need to select users just hide it from home page and search page.

clarkwinkelmann That sounds out of scope for this extension since the whole recipient and authorization system wouldn't be used. It shouldn't be too difficult to make a special discussion type appear in the visibility scope but not the index endpoint for users who aren't authors in a new extension.

IDK what are you telling I am beginner, I don't know much about flarum.

clarkwinkelmann One problem is that with the default discussion slugger, IDs are predictable so a different slugger would have to be used. Even the ID system would have to be changed because you can read/post to discussions using the API with just the ID without any need for the slug.

I don't there's a issue in predicting IDs.

clarkwinkelmann Other option would be to include a secret token in the URL but that sounds way more complicated than unguessable IDs coupled with native permissions.

I don't really think we need all this extraordinary things we should just hide it from search page, dicussion page and add noindex meta tag easy.

I'm not sure if you paid attention on something I reported previously but I will repeat it again sine I find it an extremely serious issue:

If you enable the following permission for users "Edit users partaking in private discussions", then anybody on the forum can turn any public discussion into a private one by limiting it to only a few people. This means a hacker can just enter my forum and render it useless by registering two rogue users and then making any public discussion a private discussion between these two new people.

I've disabled that permission once, then users on my forum complained they can't add more participants to already created private discussions and since I forgot I re-enabled it only to realize in horror that I opened a huge hole on my forum.

Thanks for this extension, it's great.

Is there a solution to a user clicking on a link in an email to a private discussion and being presented with the 'The Page Your Requested Could Not Be Found' screen. Time and again my users think that the forum is broken as it doesn't suggest they need to login to view the private discussion.

What's the best way to fix this, i.e. to redirect users to a login page if they're not currently logged in and follow a link to a private discussion? Thanks!

clarkwinkelmann Thanks @clarkwinkelmann - I’ll take a look into these solutions.

A pop-up login modal such as those on the PayPal express checkout would be a great solution some day in the future. As much of my forum is based on private messages I hope to find a better solution.

luceos I will consider something better for the long run.

Any update on this?
The problem still exists and I didn't want to play with the code. At the moment I took the "soft delete discussion" rights away from the mods. Still this is not a reasonable way imho, but more a workaround.

murdocklawless check Flarum log file at storage/logs or the browser development console for error messages.

A likely error could be an issue sending emails.

m4v3rick no I've been swamped with other things.

after installing the plugin there are still no "private" permissions available to configure