I posted this in the Dev section because I do not think such a plugin exists. If I’m wrong, I would love to be corrected. I would like to create a Discourse plugin that allows ‘secret’ text in the midst of a post. This would enable Play by Post RPG games where players interact privately without req…

Why not just use the two forms of existing spoiler text? Or link to other topics in categories that only those people have access to.

If the game pits the players against each other, they will be tempted to cheat and look. And if they AREN’T pit against each other, they’ll peek and argue they aren’t cheating. :slight_smile: In other words, I want only those intended to read it to be able to. In short, that’d be extremely unwi…

As an interested bystander who is not going to be writing this, I have some questions. To Logan: how secret is secret? Is “view source” visible too public? To those who know Discourse’s internals: Could the username be exposed as a CSS class (probably with a known prefix)? My thinking is the [secr…

Preferably not. Most of them have even done some web development so CTRL+SHIFT+I is not a very good barrier to entry. At best, I’d tolerate the text existing in some Ember js variable. If they don’t know how it works and can’t see the HTML, they’d likely assume it was done server side. Server side…

I don’t think middleware rendering would be the answer here; the cooked post is stored in the database and serialized out over API, so your options begin basically at the serializer (post_serializer.rb) on the way out. Two potential options: server side: The serializer knows the current user and…

Can a plugin extend the post model to include a ‘secret’ flag to indicate which posts need preprocessing? You’d need to also patch any updating to set the secret flag, but that doesn’t sound too awful. edit: and how slow would it actually be? Is Ruby’s regex in Ruby or C?

I Need this plugin too :frowning:

Secret Text Plugin

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thaidb (thaidb) Août 25, 2018, 5:37 8

I Need this plugin too

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Secret Text Plugin

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