Joy Rex

In my case, I have users who want to work on a post (usually a long Poll that they want to tweak and revise before releasing to the general public), or users who hide something out of caution (they said something controversial and want to think over what they posted), and then decide it's okay to unhide. They can't! Furthermore they think their post was actually deleted since they cannot see hidden posts.

Right (which was my thinking when I bestowed this on this particular member group), but what do you do when they want to unhide something?

Well, that's dumb - why allow a user to hide their own posts and not be able to unhide them while not being able to see other hidden posts? It looks like I am going to have to take away that ability, or provide it with the caveat that if they want to unhide a post, they will need to contact a Moderator... Thanks for the quick response, @Adriano Faria!

I've got a member group that is allowed to hide their own posts, but users are reporting there is no way for them to unhide their posts (they cannot see the hidden posts). Is this a configuration/permissions issue or is this a bug? Ideally, I'd like it so they can hide/unhide their own posts, but not be able to see hidden posts by others. Is this possible?

Yes... yes it would...

Thanks for the explanation - sounds more like the team here at IPS should roll this into 4.5!

This sounds really useful - could you provide a before and after example?

https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/latest/guide/dev_acf.html Specifically this bit: https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor4/latest/guide/dev_acf.html#automatic-mode-and-allow-additional-tagsproperties

I'm looking for an addon/application that can manage a contest where users can submit a file (in my case, an audio file) or link to a file, and then everyone gets x number of votes to vote for the most popular files. So in this case this application wouldn't work, but can anyone recommend something similar that meets those needs outlined above?

Could this be used for other kinds of contests/competitions other than just photos? Do you need the Gallery application to make this work?

We need gray mode! 🤣

That's a nice way to implement dark mode - not pure black, but shades of dark grays so it's easier on the eyes. An idea is to offer an "automatic" dark mode - look at the user's local time and switch the theme from light to dark depending on what time it is for them.

Chrome 78 has a "force dark mode" that uses color inversion - might be an option for those (depends on how well or not the inversion works with your forum theme). To enable it: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

Here's a good article on creating a Dark Mode using CSS that gives some thought to not just simply making everything gray and black: https://css-tricks.com/dark-modes-with-css/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50840168/how-to-detect-if-the-os-is-in-dark-mode-in-browsers Some more helpful information: https://css-tricks.com/dark-modes-with-css/

I hate it when my HTML chafes 🤣 This looks interesting - how would this work with IPS (the example cited is Wordpress)?

I wonder if the 'hide post' and 'unlock post' features when posting work that way?

I would think you'd want to manually upgrade the Production servers, since if something did go wrong unless you built in error reporting, you wouldn't know until your customers came screaming at you that the site/forum was down...

I too get complaints from some of my community members about the removal of the View Source (since it exposes the HTML vs BBCode) - I was surprised to find that many people mark up their posts prior to posting. I get that, but with this version of the CKEditor, using keyboard shortcuts is a HUGE time saver, and much easier to mark up than manually writing BBCode, much less HTML. Since I upgraded my forum to 4.x I have been loving the ease at which I can CTRL+B to bold, CTRL+I for italics, etc. - not to mention the paste and upload image capabilities. Your forum may be geared towards more complex markup and hence why BBCode is important to you/your community, which I can understand. IPS seems to be taking the "greater good" approach in abandoning BBCode (presumably to make the software easier to maintain and improve upon), but if it's feasible there should at least be BBCode support for those who want it (or if possible encapsulate it into an addon/application) as you suggested.

Thanks for the followup - what about IPs - does it do any lookup or comparison of IPs to determine if the user is indeed unique or is actually a duplicate account?

Likewise! Hopefully @CodingJungle can provide some insight on how the app has been updated since the 3.4.x era (he did the original) I do know that it uses PHP traits to fingerprint users, but not sure exactly how...

I've got a potential issue - when using this as a Widget, the part that says "Most members ever online was [x], last accomplished on [x]" keeps resetting - I have the widget set for the last 24 hours, but that text leads me to think it should be keeping track of the all-time most users vs the most in the past 24 hours. Does that make sense?

In addition to stickiness, another option (that should be brought back from 3.4.x) is the ability to collapse sections in the sidebar or the entire sidebar itself when it is visible depending on your viewport size.

Honestly, I wonder why people who use IPS are seemingly obsessed with emulating or trying to improve upon Facebook, etc. - to me, the biggest "threat" are sites like Reddit when it comes to IPS-driven sites.

I suppose you could take the link code for the Preview button in the editor and code into the template a button that uses that link code... I think the reason IPS moved it to the editor toolbar and made it a toolbar button was most people don't preview their posts the majority of the time.