Searching these forums, I couldn’t find much… maybe I don’t know how to search, is there a name for these? Yellow alerts? Instructional modals? Big Brother? Obscure-my-preview Esc X bot?
If the answer is that they’re not customizable, I’m going right in to feature request mode, I see enormous community-training possibilities here, even more than Topic Templates.
The really interesting thing to have would be a model that allows customizing both
detection based on a number of conditions
is this a reply or a new topic being started
how old is the previous reply
is this a new/recent user?
free text regexp match (“you mentioned X, please check this helpful link first”)
action like selecting a nice appropriate text for the yellow alert
If it can’t be a plugin, at least a Ruby-code-level customization possibility would be nice.
I see that Discourse itself is already using this effectively in several places, I’d love to be able to use those super-powers for Community-specific things.
Ah thanks, you’re right, armed with that “JIT” term I was able to search much more profitably.
I even remembered I had read this old @codinghorror post:
I think it makes every bit of sense to extend that philosophy beyond generic Discourse triggers, into Community-specific behavior.
What I would give to be able to just nudge people to tell us the freaking software version they’re running while asking for support… I can’t get back the 3.7 years of life already spent typing “what’s your version”, but at least some of my future could look brighter.
Is it just me, or this deserves a user-friendly plug-in, or even a core-UI for the simplest cases (edit the default texts)? Maybe it’s just me.
and yes, I see them as a piece of the same puzzle