NodeBB: Points
Additional metrics for User Profiles. It's like experience in video games. Plugin is good for gamification of your board.
Ranking Calculation
Ranking calculator is a function, that should accept 2 parameters - settings and raw points. Settings could vary from one calculator to another. Calculator must return object with properties listed below:
- rank [Number] - user's rank, level
- rankProgress [Number] - amount of points on current level
- rankTotal [Number] - amount of points needed to level-up
- total [Number] - raw amount of points
Example: Default Function
Themes
Plugin populates both: Profile
and Topic
views. Search for points
property in corresponding entities.
Profile View
If you want points in Profile, do very basic changes to your theme:
Example: Vanilla Theme,
/account/profile.tpl
, edit template in package directory -node_modules
{reputation} [[global:reputation]] {postcount} [[global:posts]] {profileviews} [[user:profile_views]] <!-- IF points --> {points} Points <!-- ENDIF points -->
Topic View
Every post will have additional field: points
.
If you want utilize points calculation feature in topic view, you should use theme that supports such type of integration.
TODO
- Add Gifts: ability to add points through ACP with a notification
- Add Transfers: user can transfer some of his points as a reward for some bounty or help or user generated competition
- Add Points Grid: multipliers or raw values for different categories
- Add Fresh Points: provide information for points that are earned today
- Add Complexity to Point calculation: encourage tags in topic creation
- Add Custom ranking calculators
- Add ACP Panel for raw point rewards
- Add API for raw point rewards
- Add Custom Notifications for levels
- Add Presets for ranking calculation
- Add Sections to Overview page: all time, today, personal.
- Add Utility for initial point calculation
- Add Tests (Mocha/Tape)
Changelog
v2.1.0 - 10/8/2015
- New posts now will be populated with points
- Updated all package dependencies
- Points section will show exactly 20 top users
v2.0.0 - 10/2/2015
- Compatibility with
v0.8.x
forum - Improved support for themes, you don't need inject templates anymore
- Improved Overview page
v1.2.0 - 5/10/2015
- Use Posts filter
- Added Settings to Topic View
v1.1.0 - 5/10/2015
- Rank calculation moved to client-side
v1.0.0 - 4/26/2015
- Very first release