Re: my personal wishlist for 1.2 / 2.0
Reply #1 –
Something like ImageCache should definitely be part of the core because of HTTPS. I'd also suggest the option to use your own (caching) proxy instead.
I'm vehemently opposed to infinite scrolling. Pagination is a non-negotiable requirement.
With that out of the way, changes that would be good for infinite scrolling could also be helpful for faster pagination when JS is enabled. That is, a stripped Display_Controller output such as included in the endless scrolling add-on.
Re: my personal wishlist for 1.2 / 2.0
Reply #2 –
The image proxy is already planned for either 1.1.1 or (more likely) 1.1.2 dependig on when 1.1.1 is released and how much testing is needed for image proxy (that should alredady be pretty stable anyway).
Re endless: mixed feeling, I would favour a general approach to have controllers able to return something that can easily be translated in whatever is necessary.
Re css frameworks: dunno, not my field. I find bootstrap not so easy to work with and with a kind of confused goal (it wants to do more than just positioning, but less than everything needed to do more), apart from that, I would love to use a css preprocessor (with the goal of creating a simple color picker for the default theme).
Re tags/prefixes: I wrote an addon (still beta as usual xD), in my mind, this was a first step at rethinking the whole category/boards stuff. Not a complete revolution, but the idea would be that everything is a tag. Tags then can be "promoted" to categories (i.e. categorize other tags), or boards (i.e. categorize topics) and even shown next to the topic (i.e. prefixes). This would also simplify the way discussions are done in the forum, nowadays we see more and more people not "able" to pick the correct board for a topic (or just too lazy to pick a board before starting a topic), this kind of more flexible categorization would allow (together with hashtags) to reposition topics on-the-fly while posting, and in case have topics in multiple places with tagging done at post level (for example). Please do not take this as a fully thought solution, it's an idea that needs a lot of development.
Re: my personal wishlist for 1.2 / 2.0
Reply #6 –
Though I like to see endless scrolling, I am ok with addon if some is not added as feature. I will like it more if it uses flarum approach in that matter though flarum-style addon is also around as well.
Re: my personal wishlist for 1.2 / 2.0
Reply #7 –
It looks like Flarum copied Discourse very well, by which I mean it looks almost too similar to be a mere coincidence of parallel development. It does have a few notable differences, like how Home and End work. In Flarum it's flawed as a synonym for Pg Up/Dn, while in Discourse it's not (cf. supra).
But it's also managed to resolve at least one of Discourse's flaws. It works perfectly on Opera/Presto and falls back properly to pagination on Netsurf.
Thanks for pointing it out!