✅ Forum Migration To Do List

To Do

• Stabilize the server to prevent software 503 and sporadic session time outs
  • Serve static assets from nginx (sigh)
  • Upgrade frontend server to 2GB/2CPU and setup 2 clusters
• See if we can have a “compact mode” skin/setting/plugin
• Fix the colors and labels for all badges
• Run script to set default Unwatched for game threads for lists
• Install the dice-bot plugin
• Disable posting on old forums, turn off maintenance mode, and share the URL.
• Find out why you have to set notifications to none, then back to “Notifications only” in order to stop the email notifications
• Add banners for our wonderful sponsors
• Add Google Ads
• Turn off Google Ads for Patrons
• Blank out default birthdays (if only all of us were so young!)
• Find plugin to allow a limited set of colors on text. Needs to work with both light and dark skins.
• Look into adding a skin. First idea would be something called square. Next would be monochrome.
• Look into @simon33 's issue re: post list not getting updated while composing. Firefox Quantum 63.0.3
• Set up self hosted iframely server
• Install new dbsearch plugin and re-index
• Unwatch games categories for all users
• Create Unwatch plugin for newly registered users

Code Change to be done by @djensen

• Add ability to exclude categories from index thanks to @baris!
• Make user iconBackgrounds more flexible
• Update the Persona theme to use the bookmark icon instead of the heart.

Done

• Customize email headers
• Get TripleA working here (Get Write API access working)
• Fix images not being displayed
• Change the upvote icon to a heart, awwww
• Change bookmark icon to a bookmark
• Add more file types that can be uploaded
• Highlight pinned posts
• Allow files to be uploaded
• Fix downloading uploads (If you need an upload, copy the URL and add
  /forums to the front of the path
• Redirect non-www to www
• Change default sorting to “Newest to Oldest”
• Add Google Analytics
• Update the dice-bot plugin so that you can do more than one roll at a time
• Redirect old URLs to new URLs
• Post about how people can change which badges are seen
• Rearrange the forum categories (It’s kinda messy right now)
• Find out if the Recent/Unread/Popular lists can ignore the games threads
• Fix everybody having the same IP address

Items that will be fixed in the next version of NodeBB

• Reset online status (for some reason everybody is invisible)
• Going to https://www.axisandallies.org/forums (without a trailing slash) causes an error
• Clicking the “responded to button” goes to the proper URL

Open Questions

• If you follow people, can we have a stream of posts from people you follow (like Twitter/Facebook)
• Can we set “Ignored” as a default for certain categories, like “Play games”?
• Can we have a list of “New replies to posts I’m watching” in addition to or in lieu of an alert

If there are other issues, please reply and I’ll add it to the list.

Oops:

@Gargantua Good idea. I think I can change the CSS to do that. I’m actually considering making a “Child Theme” to make a bunch of changes.

@Panther You can change the criteria here:

It defaults to all time.

Oh, you’re talking about the sidebar. :smile:

@Panther The criteria is time (day|week|month|all time) and number of posts. That’s it. I might remove it.

@Panther That’s NodeBB functionality. If you want, post some of these ideas at community.nodebb.org and @ mention me. I’m djensen47 over there. That would actually help me out a lot.

@Panther I don’t think I have control over that either. That’s a feature request for NodeBB.

The NodeBB folks are actually quite responsive and are open suggestions for improvements.

@Panther said in Forum Migration To Do List:

So the task is to find a solution for correctly displaying text when many badges are present.

Not a task for us, that’s a bug and needs to be reported to the NodeBB team.