News Feed

Trending content filter on news feed.

Trending content widget.

We need an algorithm to determine what is "trending", we can apply this in various places.

^^^

Thinking about elastic search.

We should be able to use the full capacity of elastic searches facilities.

I'd like to extend the search system to other static content too, including the help pages.

Need to consider importers

High priority:

• -XF

• -IPS0

• -MyBB

• -phpBB

• -Flarum

• -Discourse

• -Woltlab

Medium Priority:

• -Forumotion

• -Proboards?

• -UBB.threads

Low Priority

• -Forumspark

• -FUD Forum

• -Phorum

Etc

Emoji is nice, but we should be able to add some classic custom smilies, too. Bit of fun from the past. Old school animated gif smilies and such 😀

• Limit the list of avatars of online users to 20.

• Make the block show "robots" and "guests" aswell as a member count.

• Make a "View more" link which shows

• View more link shows a paginated list of users / guests / robots with filter tabs

  • This list shows the page the user is viewing (if permission to see) or a generic "viewing a forum" / "viewing a thread" message if no permission.

For a few forums this could make sense, a forum where members can't view each other's threads, the thread is formatted to put the issue front and centre and responses from staff and client can be documented cleanly. Seems sensible for support forums, but others, too.

Random idea

If we are doing hosted/SaaS, we should offer the option for accounts to be single forum or network/single sign-on accounts to work on any installation. Easy sign up, easy access for all.

This one's a maybe/maybe not situation, but should there be a time/timestamp on feed entries? Let people see if entries are new since their last visit?

Need a cron manager to schedule boring cleanup tasks such as recount totals, clean up orphaned attachments, etc.

We should also be able to manually run any of the boring background jobs.

In mobile / web app view we lose access to the following:

• Login / Register for logged out users

• Light/Dark toggle for everybody

We cannot add subforums. Or sub-sub forums. Or sub-sub-sub forums. Or sub-sub-sub-sub forums.

As a refactor, maybe categories are better served as nodes - but only containers.

That would mean you could set permissions of the category and any children nodes could auto inherit their parent.

test

test

Minor permission hiccup, tested and perms are working fine, so far, everywhere else.

Members can't post here.

Naturally viewing a piece of content should autoRead notifications

It is written in to the code to do this, unsure at this moment why it fails silently. Will do some digging.