Hey, all!
We’ve been using the bbcode-color plug-in on our forums and noticed that the chat plug-in is no longer formatting the text when the color tags are used. I’m not entirely sure if this was intentional or not…but I’m reporting it as a bug.
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Discourse-bbcode-color support for chat is currently not working due to the chat plug-in not formatting text with color tags. sdpiowa reported this issue, and joffreyjaffeux explained that it requires adding bbcode-color to a list in the chat model. To avoid polluting chat with plugin specifics, a simple plugin API is needed to allow plugins to insert themselves in the list. This feature was marked as pr-welcome. However, joffreyjaffeux later added support for this in Discourse-bbcode-color and Discourse-chat, resolving the issue.
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Hi,
this feature is coming from a plugin discourse-bbcode-color, the change to make it work is very simple, we only need to add bbcode-color in this list: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/blob/main/app/models/chat_message.rb#L135
However I don’t want to pollute chat with plugin specifics so we will have to create a simple plugin API to allow plugins to insert themselves in the list.
I’m sorry this won’t be on top of the priorities, I will mark it as pr-welcome though. Let me know if someone starts working on it, I can offer guidance. I will also reclassify this as a feature and not a bug.
Thanks for the report.
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Support for this is added in: DEV: adds chat support by jjaffeux · Pull Request #36 · discourse/discourse-bbcode-color · GitHub
Note you will need a version of discourse-chat with this commit: DEV: allows plugins to enable markdown features (#878) · discourse/discourse-chat@181fe28 · GitHub
Thanks fort report 
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