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Cool stuff found elsewhere

A collection of ideas from round the forum system work:

- Flarium topic view, a reddit style view of topics from all boards together (addon available)
- Single sign on (jsconnect, wordpress, facebook, google, twitter, saml and oauth) - https://vanillaforums.com/en/features/single-sign-on/
- Achievements (custom titles based on likes, karma, posts) -https://vanillaforums.com/en/features/gamification/

Random extra ideas:
- Night mode (either by time, or by hitting a night mode button triggering a dark variant)
- Rainbow variants in default (surely one matches most sites on a basic level)

Re: Cool stuff found elsewhere

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QuoteBeing able to use your Single sign on (jsconnect, wordpress, facebook, google, twitter, saml and oauth) -
I agree this would be a very nice thing to add. 

There was some work done in this regard by Ant59 (I think).  I think folks are used to using say their google or FB credentials and being able to join that way.  Anyway something to revisit for sure, the last thing I remember there were some issues with the available library's to make this happen, maybe things have improved.

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Quote from: Spuds – There was some work done in this regard by Ant59 (I think). 
yes, it was @Ant59‍ , you can see it in action here but the code or the addon was never released 
sorry for my bad english

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I think the main killer right now to SSO, is both Facebook and Twitter need a preshared secret key, which if Elk does and then distributes, it's fairly useless.

Each install would need to sign up for their own.

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From phpBB.

Poster information on the right hand side. At first I didn't think about it, but it does seem more natural when reading to have the poster information on the right hand side. Check out this random topic https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2399911

Please anyone chip in with how they compared the ease of reading, was it easier as it is now on Elk, or how phpBB have it?

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Single sign would be awesome but would be off by default.
Since it probably require each forum to register their own twitter app, facebook app, or other login provider app in order to work.
It does get a little more complicated the more providers that are addon since you have to keep with their updates as well.

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Yeah... having SSO is nice. I think Flarum is providing official plugin for four main SSO - FB, Live, Gmail & Twitter. Others may be extendable from that. I like Elk to provide that as official addon too. I have seen Ant59 work but I am not really knowledgeable or skillful enough to develop something like that.

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You guys should check out  could be a good start
https://github.com/hybridauth/hybridauth

    HybridAuth Core library includes OpenID, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, Foursquare and AOL.
    The additional providers project contains many others services which you may want to use.

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Yep. @Ant59 was working on that at his https://www.xydre.com site and github but according to him at that time it is not yet working. I am not so sure of its development but you may refer to his site or github https://github.com/Xydre/elkarte-external-authentication.

I myself was trying to port social login from smf here: http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=3952.0. I really forgot what is the stage of that addon and whether that addon is fully working or otherwise not. From reading my own posts, it seems like it is working but I somehow wished to rewrite it.