Dev Update: Wiki Pages, Article Summaries, and More User Settings

Hello everyone! I know it’s been a few months, but I’m back with an update of what I’ve been working on for SpeakBits.

Group Wiki Pages

Group moderators are now able to create group wiki pages! This can be done by going to the group About page and clicking the “Add Page” button in the Wiki section. Pages can be added as sub pages to other existing ones. Until a page is added, regular users will not see a wiki section in the About page. All pages will feature a collapsed Table of Contents for easy navigation between pages.

Moderators are the only ones that can add and edit wiki pages. Sometimes there might be a desire to give a user the ability to create the wiki but not necessarily allow them to do anything else and there is an ability to do so by only giving them the Wiki moderator permission. There are seven permissions that can be given or removed from moderators (Users, Settings, Tags, Queues, Wiki, Rules, Requests).

Group Blocking

Users are now able to quickly block groups from appearing in their feeds and search by clicking the Bell icon in the sidebar in the Group title row. Blocked groups can still be visited if one desires by navigating directly to them. The settings page contains a section to see and manage all blocked groups.

Group Moderator View

A group moderator can now enable a moderator view of the group by clicking the “Mod” button in the sidebar on the title row. Clicking this will add a row of buttons to each post that will allow the moderator to quickly perform moderator actions without having to jump into the moderator queue.

Hiding All NSFW

Some users might not want to see NSFW content appear in their feeds, All page, or search so they have the option to filter out all NSFW content in their settings by clicking the “Hide All NSFW” button.

Article Summaries

This feature has existed for a while so I’m sure some have noticed it by now. All posted articles will get a generated summary, or TL;DR,  attached to the post for any users that might want a quick idea of what the article is really about before delving deep into it.

Future

I’m currently working on expanding the Group Moderator View into a Moderator tab that will allow a moderator to see all the groups that they are a moderator of and view only posts from those groups so that they can moderate everything from one place. Hoping to finish this up soon!

Planned Features

The following is a list of what I’m thinking of working on after the Moderator tab. This is not ordered in any way and changes priorities based on feedback:

Groups

• User and self tags

Moderation

• AutoModerator
• Post scheduling
• Combined moderation view for all groups under a single mod

Sortition Moderation

• Add group bans to the sortition process
• Add locked content to the sortition process