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Mon, 09 May 2022 19:36:28 +0200

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Scott M. Stolz wrote the following post Mon, 09 May 2022 19:36:28 +0200

Changing Look for Forum Posts

I have been trying to restyle how forum posts look to give a more traditional forum feel, but I am getting stuck on how to format it correctly. The file conv_item.tpl does not appear to control what I want to change. Also, it appears that posting on someone else's wall acts more like a forum post than a forum post does (at least on the front end).

Posting on someone else's wall:

Shows author as the author.
Title of post shows up correctly as the title.
User can edit their post (although they can only do that on their own hub and not locally)
Looks like a forum post.

Posting on the forum:

Attributes the forum as the author, but mentions the author in the body.
Title does not show up as the title, but is instead shown in the body.
User cannot edit their post anywhere.
Does not look like a forum post.

How do I change the forum posts to look more like "posting on someone else's wall?" I am confused on where to change that in the code.

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Mon, 09 May 2022 20:23:30 +0200

Scott M. Stolz

scott@completehostingguide.com

@Hans

Tejan Ausland via Hubzilla .....

That appears to just change "posting on someone else's wall" and not the forum posts.

For forum posts, the name of the author and the title of the post appear to be directly embedded in {{$item.body}} instead of {{$item.name}} and {{$item.title}}, respectively.

And on a forum post, {{$item.name}} appears to refer to the name of the forum, and not the author. And {{$item.title}} appears to be NULL on forum posts.

Mon, 09 May 2022 21:21:50 +0200

Scott M. Stolz

scott@completehostingguide.com

@Hans Unfortunately, that is not something I can change in conv_item.tpl, and I am not sure which file I should be editing since it is not there.

Feature request: "forced to tag a post"

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:36:13 +0200 last edited: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:34:27 +0200

RockyIII

rockyiii@huby.infozoo.de

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I find that the structure of the hubzilla support form is not very efficient. Many questions are asked over and over again and quit a lot of time is lost by answering this question over and over again.
If questions and answers were tagged and if there would be also a given poll of tags to choose from - the search for answers would be much better.

If someone wants to post in a forum he/she should be forced to tag the post. This could be a setting which the admin could activate - or could a new plugin do this?
THANKS

Feature request tag Forum Forum tag Feature request

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:32:24 +0200 last edited: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 20:55:46 +0200

RockyIII

rockyiii@huby.infozoo.de

forced to categories a post would work as well

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:17:03 +0200

Yeah this is an nice idea we tried to implement on another forum. Having a dropdown, or autocompletion on existing tags/categories in the given forum would make things easier, ortherwise it still creates mess where you have multiple tags describing the same things (by using you example feature, request, forum, tags, would create duplicates already).

Forum view on Activity page - different posts for different users

Thu, 10 May 2018 15:58:46 +0200

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I think this has been raised few times already but I dont think I've seen clear answer, and its someting that makes everyone I'm testing hubzilla with very confused. We would like to know how forums really work and to see wheter we are dealing with a bug something.

It seems that different accounts see different posts in their Activity view when they go to a specific forum eg:

I tested it with two accounts and the channel's page.Here is the result:

My account on disroot server:

Account on gerzilla.de

Disroot Community channel page:

As you see each account sees different content. I've checked Hubzilla Support forum pages too. They all show different results.
My first guess was that maybe due to federation some of the posts have not arrived to different servers etc, but in case all users are connected to the forum, all posts should arrive to all participating servers, right? Specially that in case of Disroot Community Forum we've observed the same situation while all accounts we tested on were on the same server.

Additionally I noticed that when I post to a forum using mention tag, (like now), I dont see my posts apearing in the forum tab, nor on the forums channel page (only when i post directly to the forum via their site).

Could someone clarify whether its how forum feature work, or if there is something weird that I should be looking into?

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Thu, 10 May 2018 22:45:40 +0200

Mike as always great comment. Thanks. I need to read it couple of times to really understand it all :P

We did have a glitch some days ago where we werent polling properly due to my fuckup in crontab (i forgot to use php7.2 after update and so it wasnt working). I wonder if that still has an impact.

While inspecting the queue and checking the logs I see a lot of items sent/coming from one node that seems to be offline. Could that have impact on things?
If we are too slow processing the queue, which settings should I tweak?

Thu, 10 May 2018 22:59:53 +0200

Will disabling Suppress Duplicate Posts/Comments help the situation where you dont see your own posts in the forum tab in activity page?

Fri, 11 May 2018 09:09:25 +0200

Mike thanks for the exaplanation on the forum behaviour. This makes a lot of sense and explains the confusion. For consistency sake I'm interested in seeing your changes though. Otherwise I guess the idea of hubzilla (the more i use it the more i understand it) is to post form within other peoples walls. Though for poeple not familiar with the way it works it gets confusing at first I suppose.

I'll be playing around with the delivery settings to make sure our hub is fast enough.

someone can't post into a forum

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:31:02 +0100

@Hubzilla Support Forum+
I've just setted up a forum for the german speaking new commers under @neu hier (*Willkommen*)

I've now seen a new person that posted into the forum, but their post isn't visable in the forum.
This person is connected to the "channel". And in the settings the channel is choosen to be "forum - mostly public"
I have also tested it by myself, and it worked.
Here's the last post of them:
https://hub.libranet.de/display/2c0c36b09ab92dcf072811e293b39c78790702e665047089165cc0d7c6130d15@mint-n-er.de