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Compress uploaded images in Vanilla forum

Large images uploaded by forum users were clogging up my server. Rather than make changes to core vanilla code, I decided a simple solution would be to run a cron script that checks for "large" jpeg's, and compresses one image every 30 minutes.

This is the script I came up with.

https://github.com/pinchies/VanillaCompressImages

I added these files to my public_html, and then added a run line to cron this command every 30 minutes:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/mywebsitedomain/public_html/compressimages.php

I'm not an experienced php developer, so critical eyes and feedback are welcome, as there's the possibility I'm making big mistakes. This seemed like a simple solution to this issue for my server at least, and it freed up a lot of space, and the settings I've chosen have negligible compromise on image quality.

Hopefully this helps someone, or at least draws dev attention for a need for an integrated feature like this.

Thanks all.

pinchies

Summer/Fall 2019 Roadmap & Development

I understand these kind of announcements have been kind of ad-hoc in the past, but I'd like to do them more frequently in the future. My intention is to outline in broad strokes what features and parts of the framework we'll be working on in the next few months.

Warning: These notes are not a guarantee of any particular version number or release date. It just represents some of our development goals. In particular any of these numbered releases may be broken up or shifted if we make an extra release.

Primary Goals

Add some small new features.
Clear our Low/Medium security backlog.
Wrap up various on-going technical projects.

Vanilla 3.2

New Content Embed System & Documentation. See OSS preview + announcement thread.
User homepage selector plugin.
Enhanced automated testing on pull requests with CircleCI.
Various Rich Editor & Forum bug fixes.
Low/Medium severity security fixes from the backlog.

ETA End of July

Vanilla 3.3

This one likely won't be clarified until after a few more product team meetings.

Rich Editor

Alt-text for images.
Better handling of embeds on mobile devices.

Routing

The team has been doing a lot of work over the last few months on a new base controller, and static routing system. A lot of the interface and classes used here are already development but may change between now and the release where they are publicly documented.

Builtin Docker Images

Vanilla currently has a project, vanilla-docker that is used for all of our team's development environment. These images are planned to be moved into the core repo, and have all dependencies placed inside. This will also include a production configured image & setup script for hosts that support Docker (looking at an installer for digital ocean).

Using this system the only dependency will Docker. All other tooling (php, composer, node, yarn, etc) will run inside of the containers.

Formatting Pipeline

Work has begun on a major refactoring of the text rendering pipeline. The goals being:

Consistent interface for different formatters.
Unified configuration options between Rich Editor & other formats.
Configuration options for embeds.
Break up Gdn_Format
Increased automated test coverage.

JS module system

We've begun breaking up our core typescript codebase into individual packages and publishing them to NPM. These will be published under the org. The intention is to consolidate various packages & build processes floating around.

ETA End of August

charrondev

Re: Theme

Hi @Franckb5940

this is your plugin:

https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/statsbox-plugin

phreak

Re: Is this forum dead? I asked two questions but not one replies?

Seems like your superpower is impatience.

The three mentioned people above will most probably tell you (more politly than I can) that this is the

Community-based support for open source Vanilla forum owners, developers, and theme creators.

They surely give support if needed but not for all Vanilla open source related questions. Those questions should be answered by the community if possible. This community is full of kind volunteers, but since they are volunteers, they do not offer a 24/7 support.

But just take a cup of coffe or two and I will have answered both questions (though I'm not able to solve those problems)

R_J

Re: Quoted content delete option is not showing in editor

The editor in the open source version right now doesn't have that option. There were problems deleting quoted text from mobiles in the past and I guess that icon is the way that issue has been addressed.

The Vanilla version running here is ahead of the open source version. The next open source release most probably will have that feature.

R_J

Re: Translating category names

@vivacelix

edited...

it seems as if

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/2.1/applications/vanilla/models/class.categorymodel.php#L147

   protected static function CalculateData(&$Data) {
        foreach ($Data as &$Category) {
     // add line below
       $Category['Name']= T($Category['Name']);

would be a reasonable mod, if you want to suggest to github.

it should change most things - not the dashboard categories - which you probably wouldn't wnat to change anyway.

peregrine

Our initial documentation is written, but it will be fleshed out significantly in time for the next release. In case anyone wants to start playing with it, here it is.