The discussion is about creating a onebox/preview for badges in Discourse. Richie started the conversation, highlighting that badges are a significant part of their community, but there is no nice way to display them when linked. For example, linking to the Support Enthusiast badge results in a plain URL. In contrast, links to categories, such as the feature category, are nicely displayed. Richie found a workaround by adding a space before the badge link, which improves the display. JammyDodger and MachineScholar expressed support for creating a onebox that includes the badge image and description. Richie inquired about the process for getting features onto the roadmap and considered proposing it as a paid-for gig or PR for core. Richie reminded JammyDodger to cast their vote using the Vote button at the top of the page.
Links to categories are nicely displayed, here’s now we visualise the Contribute > Feature category when we use a link to https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/2
Looks great!
Can we please do something with our beloved badges?
I’ve come up with a work around for the poor displaying of a badge link, I now insert a space at the start of the new link so at least now people see a nicer badge description instead of just a URL.
Is there a formal method for getting features on to the roadmap?
Could I throw this out in the wild as a paid-for gig? Then try to get a PR approved for core eventually? I’m unsure of the process or what qualifies something for core
