Hi all, We are definitely looking at Discourse as an alternative to our forum software for a varity of reasons but one of the big things we have to figure out is what to do with all the bbcode we support on our site which can be seen here: Tutorial - RpNation - BBcode Guide | RpNation and here: Tut…

I can see why you are looking into a new software, loading Tutorial - RpNation - BBcode Guide | RpNation is taking 2 minutes for me :scream: [image] I believe all your custom styles, like newspaper, challenge, sides, can be done with Generic bbcode wrapper for theme components and CSS. And lots …

[afbeelding] Falco: I can see why you are looking into a new software, loading Tutorial - RpNation - BBcode Guide | RpNation is taking 2 minutes for me Oh noes. That sounds gross. We are running Cloudflare + a decently beefy AMD Ryzen server. Takes about 2 seconds for me to load all assets lo…

Could you not have put that whole guide into one Post and made it a Wiki when you felt like adding more? Having it in multiple posts makes it much harder to read and comprehend imho and creates a lot of wasted space.

Also note that Discourse out-of-the-box supports some restricted HTML anywhere in the post content, not just inside a special wrapper. For example, this post is wrapped inside a <div align=justify>. Unfortunately it does mess with some of the inline formatting, forcing HTML for everything in the pa…

[afbeelding] merefield: Could you not have put that whole guide into one Post and made it a Wiki when you felt like adding more? Having it in multiple posts makes it much harder to read and comprehend imho and creates a lot of That bbcode guide is in a different forum software, one that doesn…

Aha apologies, yeah, all the more reason to migrate! :slight_smile:

[afbeelding] merefield: Aha apologies, yeah, all the more reason to migrate! :slight_smile: No problem :slight_smile: [afbeelding] neounix: My suggestion is to anyone ( @TheDarkWizard ) looking to create custom BBCODE is to start with the " Awesome BBCodes Plugin" and hack away from ther…

Best Course of Action on Supporting Custom BBCode?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 23 april 2020 om 19:34 4

You might have a look at Discourse BBCode. I think it should be relatively easy to add support for other codes (though, TBH, I had trouble figuring out how to do it. . . )

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Best Course of Action on Supporting Custom BBCode?

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