National flags indicating home country of each user?
One thing we had on our old (home made) forum was little flags showing where each user is from. We have members from all over the world, so that is now our #1 most requested feature on Discourse....
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It would make a good plugin. Some things to think about, is this set from signup IP, or is it something users have to configure themselves? Read full topic
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codinghorror: or is it something users have to configure themselves? I was thinking based on what the user enters about themselves in their personal information/profile. That way it’s voluntary....
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Hi Jeff, I am working on the same site as Gunnar. From a user viewpoint, the benefit would be that the user could quickly get an idea of location (and therefore timezone, language, and currency) with...
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JagWaugh: I would say detecting it from ip addy would be a bit too much overhead if you have to do a lookup at every user login No, I meant once at first logon. Read full topic
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It would be better if user choose the proper flag. Not all people living in there countries and some may have more than one nationality. A nice feature to add Read full topic
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How about: Assign it based on IP on first login. Make it configurable so that you can make it a mod_only, or User editable. And since I’m in wish concert mode: If a user wants to change it, and you’ve...
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Gunnar: Best place for it would probably be the user card Agree. Related wish some time ago: User location's flags feature Hello, we need identify the countries where the members come from. Something...
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ewanly: It would be better if user choose the proper flag. Not all people living in there countries and some may have more than one nationality Indeed. For us it’s not so much a question of identity...
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I had a go at this. I believe OP was talking about a plugin for phpBB. I used the same plugin on my forum before we changed over to Discourse a couple of weeks back. A few of the members mentioned...
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I’m sorry that I am unable to contribute any code, but I wonder whether it would be too much trouble to extend the functionality to allow users to add multiple flags. I guess the reasons are obvious...
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@Ebs you are in the plugin_authors group, feel free to post a dedicated topic in the #plugin category with some screenshots Read full topic
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Thanks Sam, I posted the reply first before I applied for #plugin membership so I had something to show for it first. I’ve just made the post - National Flags - Display user nationality in Discourse...
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