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live627

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[Plugin Screenshots] Invitation Only Topics
« on April 5th, 2012, 07:21 AM »Last edited on April 5th, 2012, 08:03 AM
This plugin allows your members to restrict topics to those members they choose.

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User details:
- Uses board permission too allow/deny users the ability too invite members to a topic. Note that guests cannot do this.
- Sidebar block for members who are invited to topic
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Nao

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #1, on April 5th, 2012, 07:54 AM »
Why not simply rely on user created groups?
Although I agree that if people are going to create a group just for one topic it's a bit silly, but at least its faster... Or is it.

Can you share your code in private? I'm interested in seeing your implementation. As you know I got obsessed with topic privacy shortly before we went live and I'm still hurt I didn't manage to write a ui timely enough. To me, privacy is the most critical feature to complete before going alpha. The rest can 'wait' I think.

live627

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #2, on April 5th, 2012, 08:02 AM »
Sure. Just a sec.
Posted: April 5th, 2012, 07:58 AM

Done. :)

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #3, on April 5th, 2012, 08:02 AM »
Thanks! Will look into it when I'm on my pc.

MultiformeIngegno

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #4, on April 5th, 2012, 10:23 AM »
Finally! :D
This is really useful, groups are ok but really limited. :)

Arantor

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #5, on April 5th, 2012, 10:45 AM »
Quote from MultiformeIngegno on April 5th, 2012, 10:23 AM
Finally! :D
This is really useful, groups are ok but really limited. :)
And you didn't want to say this earlier because...?
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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #6, on April 5th, 2012, 02:04 PM »
Quote from MultiformeIngegno on April 5th, 2012, 10:23 AM
Finally! :D
This is really useful, groups are ok but really limited. :)
Like Pete says. We discussed this thoroughly just a few weeks ago... :-/
Posted: April 5th, 2012, 02:02 PM

BTW, just to give some random statistics... Over at Noisen, there's only one blog author who ever used topic privacy (ever!), apart from me. And it does have the 'Friends' privacy setting that is more 'practical' to use than Wedge's. Even then, nope, nobody will use it... Probably because they generally don't speak about themselves except by PM, where they know for 'sure' that it's fine to write anything. Still... It's probably a feature that I'm more obsessive about, than anyone else combined. Lol.

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #7, on April 5th, 2012, 04:42 PM »
Quote from Arantor on April 5th, 2012, 10:45 AM
Quote from MultiformeIngegno on April 5th, 2012, 10:23 AM
Finally! :D
This is really useful, groups are ok but really limited. :)
And you didn't want to say this earlier because...?
Because I can't follow every discussion.. :unsure:
I try to do my best and read and partecipate as much as I can though ;)

live627

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #8, on April 6th, 2012, 12:09 AM »
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groups are ok but really limited
Care too say why?

MultiformeIngegno

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #9, on April 6th, 2012, 11:20 AM »
Quote from live627 on April 6th, 2012, 12:09 AM
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groups are ok but really limited
Care too say why?
Cause you have to create one in order to specify something. It would be nice to have permissions to create topics, permissions to view boards, to comment medias, ecc based on the single users. Admin would have a list of users that have those permissions for each "area" (boards, topics...) and could add people or delete someone in the list. IMHO it would be much more clean and simple (I'd ditch groups at all - maybe leave just admin and moderators - and have "singular" permissions only)..

Arantor

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #10, on April 6th, 2012, 01:04 PM »
And what happens if you create a contact list for all your friends, what then? Isn't that *exactly* when you would use groups?

(The reason I was pissy earlier in this thread is that we discussed it for days and days and this wasn't brought up before)

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #11, on April 6th, 2012, 01:47 PM »
Quote from Arantor on April 6th, 2012, 01:04 PM
And what happens if you create a contact list for all your friends, what then? Isn't that *exactly* when you would use groups?
Ok but what if you want THAT particular topic to be viewed only by the users A, B and C and another topic to be viewed by all but can post only D, F, H and a media file that can be seen by G, R, J but only G and J can post comments, or in a board only members T,B,G,D can start polls but everyone can see em.

Of course you can create groups but there's no need to do that just to have permissions for a single topic/board/media/etc..
It's more polish if permissions are applied to the single elements. Maybe groups can remain, and single permissions are added to those..
Quote from Arantor on April 6th, 2012, 01:04 PM
(The reason I was pissy earlier in this thread is that we discussed it for days and days and this wasn't brought up before)
I know and you are perfectly right. I probably didn't see those topics/posts... :^^;:

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #12, on April 6th, 2012, 01:52 PM »
If you do need a topic to be a specific list of users, then this is the way to go. But very often you don't need that all the time, and having a list of groups is the way forward - if your contact list(s) are also groups.

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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #13, on April 6th, 2012, 11:28 PM »
I love groups I hardly ever set privacy to something different then any groups I would set up. For the few times I might... I would just make a new group with the new list of users.
Thank you,
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[Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« Reply #14, on April 6th, 2012, 11:51 PM »
Quote from godboko71 on April 6th, 2012, 11:28 PM
I love groups I hardly ever set privacy to something different then any groups I would set up. For the few times I might... I would just make a new group with the new list of users.
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Or remote controls like this:
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Then someone rethought the way they was built.
You cannot think "I always did this, so everyone should do this", or "I always did that, so it won't change ever"....
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