Disclaimer: I know that trying to shove BBCode back into Discourse is unconventional but its one of the few things stopping us from completely moving to Discourse and I’ve seen some really large sites (not many) use custom bbcode to a degree. Any help would be appreciated. Hey All, After taking a …

Can’t say I understand all you said, but maybe this information could interest you? [image] Migrate a phpBB3 forum to Discourse Migrating to Discourse Thanks @Canapin for all your feedback. A PR is definitely welcome! Also, a small teaser: We are working on a solution wh…

Unfortunately not, but we already have some leads!

[image] The Dark Wizard: But we had issues with inline bbcodes inside of block codes: I wonder if moving from bbcode to html custom elements would make it easier. Would this be feasible?

That is something we’ve definitely thought about and desired in the past, I was not aware that we could extend and whitelist the existing suite of allowed html. We do have a workaround for the issue already but it’s a regex that runs clientside to fix any remaining tag issues. Any documentation or …

[image] The Dark Wizard: Any documentation or examples you could point us at? assets/javascripts/lib/discourse-markdown/footnotes.js 683fb3fad export function setup(helper) { helper.registerOptions((opts, siteSettings) => { opts.features["footnotes"] = !!siteSetting…

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) May 5, 2022, 10:14pm 2

Can’t say I understand all you said, but maybe this information could interest you?

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