Git Repository and To-Do List

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This forum is very much a work in progress. Bet you couldn't tell!

For the interested, I'll be tracking any major modifications here: https://git.2ki.xyz/hell-labs/f9 Please feel free to contribute however you'd like. Submit a PR if you have access, email/PM patches, send a hand-written letter saying what lines to change via carrier pigeon, etc.

SMF is easy to modify, but there is so much to modify. I can't promise an ETA, but here's a list of major tasks I'd like to do:

• Provide a more """modern""" experience on mobile. Not a complete overhaul, but certain aspects from the default SMF theme don't translate well to mobile (looking at you, "User Actions" menu)
• Inline attachments for posts, likely based off what @viviridian has previously built
• Some way to contact moderators outside of just using the "Report" button. Something like the ModMail system in some Discord servers
• Some kind of chat? like IRC that's tied to the forum??? or something??????

[viviridian]

a long time ago I had an irc bot that was written in php and had direct db access, it would post a notification to irc whenever a new post was made. that was a pretty decent way to tie together a forum and chat channel imo. nowadays that'd probably be a webhook I guess

[lifning]

a long time ago I had an irc bot that was written in php and had direct db access, it would post a notification to irc whenever a new post was made. that was a pretty decent way to tie together a forum and chat channel imo. nowadays that'd probably be a webhook I guess

the bot would just post the topic name and who'd posted, but if you wanted a link to it you had to type !link. i wonder how important that aspect was, as an exercise in practicing a trivial bit of intentionality in a socially visible way

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a long time ago I had an irc bot that was written in php and had direct db access, it would post a notification to irc whenever a new post was made. that was a pretty decent way to tie together a forum and chat channel imo. nowadays that'd probably be a webhook I guess

Huh, there's no integration hook for new posts/topics as far as I can tell. That seems really weird. I guess we'd have to rely on direct DB access too, or adding an integration hook I suppose.

A webhook could work, although I'd prefer to avoid the chat environment being Discord or Matrix. Part of me was thinking XMPP because I've had the best luck with it, but I was thinking of IRC due to it being relatively easy to build a web interface around.

[lifning]

A webhook could work, although I'd prefer to avoid the chat environment being Discord or Matrix. Part of me was thinking XMPP because I've had the best luck with it, but I was thinking of IRC due to it being relatively easy to build a web interface around.

hmm... wondering if there's a way we could tie IRC auth to forum account auth

[snow]

A webhook could work, although I'd prefer to avoid the chat environment being Discord or Matrix. Part of me was thinking XMPP because I've had the best luck with it, but I was thinking of IRC due to it being relatively easy to build a web interface around.

hmm... wondering if there's a way we could tie IRC auth to forum account auth

The common method is generating an "IRC Key" that's used as the password for a user on the IRC server, but we could also make SMF into an OAuth2 provider! I see no way this could complicate things

to be clear, I am not seriously considering the latter. being an OAuth2 provider is a nightmare, and I don't even know if there are good PHP libraries for it

[viviridian]

a long time ago I had an irc bot that was written in php and had direct db access, it would post a notification to irc whenever a new post was made. that was a pretty decent way to tie together a forum and chat channel imo. nowadays that'd probably be a webhook I guess

the bot would just post the topic name and who'd posted, but if you wanted a link to it you had to type !link. i wonder how important that aspect was, as an exercise in practicing a trivial bit of intentionality in a socially visible way

that's a really interesting observation. yeah, writing !link (or !lank) effectively signaled to everyone in the chat that you were around and going to look at the post