List of project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Deadline is 19th of February. Better hurry up and post your favourite features before then!

Some new additions:

Try bot, a bot that teaches staff about Discourse

I think it would be nice to have a bot, somewhat like slackbot that you can use to learn and interact with on https://try.discourse.org Interacting with trybot would be achieved either by replying directly to a trybot post or mentioning @trybot Some example interactions I thing would be handy: @trybot can you reply to me in 20 seconds Trybot posts a direct reply to my post in 20 seconds @trybot can you create a new topic Trybot posts a new topic on try @trybot what is a badge trybo…

Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown?

I just saw an interview with Michael Pryor of trello: At one point he says: We added markdown in Trello which in retrospect, was a mistake because it’s a developer centric feature in a non developer focused product. We overcame it by adding guidance on how to use markdown within the app, but users sometimes still get confused. I’m curious to know what the feeling out there is about the use of markdown in Discourse. Am I the only one who thinks discourse would appeal to many more people i…

(Focusing on “see who’s writing”
https://meta.discourse.org/t/presence-features-for-forums/12

Plugin idea: Image optimization with WebP

Inspired by this: When pictures are uploaded or locally downloaded, Discourse generates a WebP version of that image which it’ll use if it detects a compatible browser. Should probably only use WebP for thumbnails. Expanded images should always be the source file. Maybe the best approach would be a lightweight “standalone service” the way Discourse’s avatar generator works.

Plugin: Manually curated topic summaries

Related topics: https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-idea-thread-updates/7973 Admin/mod ability to insert a post wherever Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic Example use case: [image] Problem statement Some topics, like a call-for-bug-reports or a new Howto, will receive a lot of replies that go stale shortly thereafter because the appropriate fixes/edits were applied as a response. When closing or marking as solved doesn’t make sense, the best solution to date is to dele…