Quick Messages Plugin

[BadlyDrawnBoy (Rodrigo Pereira)]

As you can see in Marcos screenshot above, “Nova Mensagem” is split to two lines. I personally don’t like it. I suggest that a.widget-link is set with white-space: nowrap, or give the menu panel a bit more width, e.g. 320px.

[marcospreviato (Marcos P)]

thanks for tip, now:

[BadlyDrawnBoy (Rodrigo Pereira)]

Thanks for the plugin

[marcospreviato (Marcos P)]

message don’t show for me

[P16]

Same here. I think they just went for the main admin, the rest of the accounts seem to have them show up.

[marcospreviato (Marcos P)]

yes, the another users of my site seen correctly.

[tobiaseigen]

It’s the automatic emails that are suppressed. Try sending a message to another user and it should show up. See above.

Quick Messages Plugin

I’ve just: Removed system messages from the quick message list Removed new system messages from the message notification count Added system messages to the user notification count https://github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-quick-messages/commit/739a4207529701c50339f4080c59ada4ade6371a cc @tobiaseigen as per your initial request. Note that this means you will still see notifications for system messages in the form of user notifications rather than as message notifications. For example a new us…

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@marcospreviato

message don’t show for me

@P16

Same here. I think they just went for the main admin, the rest of the accounts seem to have them show up.

@tobiaseigen

It’s the automatic emails that are suppressed. Try sending a message to another user and it should show up. See above.

Hey guys, I suppressed messages from the system user, i.e. the user that is automatically created when an instance is created. This is the user that is the ‘author’ of all automatic messages, e.g. the welcome message, telling an admin when a backup was completed etc.

This was to prevent the issue @tobiaseigen mentioned, i.e. it is not desired to have system messages appear in the quick-message list.

I had assumed that people leave this user as the system user and don’t use it personally, but it seems this is not the case.

I’m not sure whether it will be possible to separate ‘automatic’ as opposed to ‘manual’ messages from this user. I’ll have a look.

[marcospreviato (Marcos P)]

Nice, thanks for help, i change the user and working fine now.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@BadlyDrawnBoy

As you can see in Marcos screenshot above, “Nova Mensagem” is split to two lines. I personally don’t like it. I suggest that a.widget-link is set with white-space: nowrap, or give the menu panel a bit more width, e.g. 320px.

@marcospreviato

Thanks guys. When the text is English (i.e. ‘New Message’) it appears on the same line, so I hadn’t noticed this before.

I’ve updated the CSS

improve gutter links css

[Will_Battel]

Is there a way to pull these messages to display on another service (same user base)? Or maybe some sort of API for developers to retrieve and inject messages from other services? I use Discourse as a forum for our gaming community, and I’m writing a game plugin for messaging, and it’d be super cool if messages could by synched between the game server and Discourse.

[P16]

@angus I am the admin and I cannot get any messages to show when I click the Quick Messages icon - it just says No Messages Yet. Other admins and users have normal functionality. When I send them messages, they show up in their dropdown, but nothing shows up in mine. I am registered with the developer email and am the main admin. Ill try rebuilding tonight and report back if anything changes. Thanks!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@Will_Battel

Is there a way to pull these messages to display on another service (same user base)? Or maybe some sort of API for developers to retrieve and inject messages from other services? I use Discourse as a forum for our gaming community, and I’m writing a game plugin for messaging, and it’d be super cool if messages could by synched between the game server and Discourse.

Hey, this plugin displays normal Discourse private messages in a different way. You can get Discourse private messages through the Discourse api.

Here’s a useful topic explaining the api (including how to get private messages):

Discourse REST API Documentation

Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: https://docs.discourse.org Deprecation Warning! On April 6th, 2020 we dropped support for all non-HTTP header based authentication (excluding some rss, mail-receiver, and ics routes). This means that API requests that have an api_key and api_username in the query params or in the HTTP body of the request will soon stop working. Please see the example cURL request below for how to update your API requ…

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@P16

@angus I am the admin and I cannot get any messages to show when I click the Quick Messages icon - it just says No Messages Yet. Other admins and users have normal functionality. When I send them messages, they show up in their dropdown, but nothing shows up in mine. I am registered with the developer email and am the main admin. Ill try rebuilding tonight and report back if anything changes. Thanks!

Hey, yes that is expected. Please see this post where I explained what is going on if you are using the default admin for your own personal account. I will see if I can do something about this soon.

@angus

Hey guys, I suppressed messages from the system user, i.e. the user that is automatically created when an instance is created. This is the user that is the ‘author’ of all automatic messages, e.g. the welcome message, telling an admin when a backup was completed etc.

This was to prevent the issue @tobiaseigen mentioned, i.e. it is not desired to have system messages appear in the quick-message list.

I had assumed that people leave this user as the system user and don’t use it personally, but it seems this is not the case.

I’m not sure whether it will be possible to separate ‘automatic’ as opposed to ‘manual’ messages from this user. I’ll have a look.

[Will_Battel]

Awesome, I’ll take a look. Thanks.

Also, if this plugin just changes the look of the built in system, does this mean I can use the plugin and just get the messages from the discourse API? Or can I not use the plugin?

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Yup, all the messages you see in this plugin are available via the Discourse api.

[Pad_Pors]

2 questions Angus:

1. i just noted that user with trust level 0 and 1 also see the letter-icon and can push the new message button there, but then they can’t send it. these users can’t use the plugin because of the trust-limits, is it possible not to show them the new-message-btn? or perhaps some better ways to avoid their useless trials?

2. the error message after a trial of TL0 user is an empty message in my case, i’m using Persian language, but even when i changed the local language to English it’s still empty (the main language of the discourse is still Persian). do you have any idea why is that so? or how i can fix this?

##update:
just understood that this error is not only for TL0, i had the same problem messaging with admin to a new user.

after i continue another message from before, the plugin works. no error log!

any idea?

• when i was continuing the message from before, after each time i entered some text and pressed enter, the mouse goes to the first message in the flow! and i had problem scrolling down. let me know if i could explain what i wanted!

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

Hey, yes these are issues with trust level limits and rate limiting. As you know, Discourse has some fine-grained features for who can post and when. This plugin doesn’t handle that so finely at the moment so you will see this kind of issue pop up every now and then. I’ve been busy with other stuff, but I do plan to come back to this soon (this week) to better handle trust levels and rate limiting. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

I’ve just updated this plugin:

1. I added a quick message create rate limit setting, which defaults at 1 second.

2. I added a quick message min character length, which also defaults to 1 character.

3. I removed the uniqueness check on quick messages (i.e. identical posts can be posted after each other).

4. I removed the maximum number of first day replies for quick messages.

The upshot of all this is that quick messages much more closely resemble chat. Watch this for an example: http://quick.as/b1wbsoq7ac. And that the kind of issues mentioned by @Pad_Pors above should no longer occur.

A couple of caveats:

1. Please note that due to the reason mentioned below in ‘Technical’, currently these settings will affect all private messages, i.e. it will also change the rate and character limits on private message topics. I hope to restrict them to quick messages only (as opposed to all private messages) soon.

2. These settings I changed for quick messages were originally put in place by the Discourse team for a reason. Partly to prevent spam. Partly to encourage civilized discussion. I am open to feedback on these limits and how they should be re-set for this context.

Technical

@zogstrip @tgxworld Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems it’s not possible to pass Post custom_fields when actually creating a post, as custom_fields is not a permitted parameter in the create_params method in the posts_controller?

However it also seems as if though the post_creator anticipates that this is actually possible, see here.

It is possible to add the custom_fields immediately after the post is created. This is what Topic Ratings does.

However I think Quick Messages need to pass the fields when the post is created to handle rate limiting without interfering with other private messages, i.e. see here and here.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Pad_Pors]

thanks Angus for the update.

I haven’t tested the new update yet, meanwhile another issue reported by one of our members is something like this image:

that is: you have messages, and you don’t see them unless you go to “show more”.