Byōbu by FriendsOfFlarum

Private discussions for your forum. Allows you to select specific recipients for your discussions.

Goals

• Create discussions only specific users or groups can participate in.
• Force new posts in these private discussions to show real-time.

Installation

composer require fof/byobu:"*"

Updating

composer update fof/byobu
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Configuration

Enable the extension under the extensions tab in the admin area.

Make sure you configure the private discussions permission on the Admin Permissions tab to your needs;

• Create private discussions with users
• Create private discussions with groups
• Create private discussions with blockers
• Edit recipient users of private discussions
• Edit recipient groups of private discussions

Notifications

Browser alert and email notifications are available for user recipients of private discussions for:

• Private discussion started
• Private discussion replied
• User added to private discussion
• User left the private discussion

Notifications for group recipients are available for:

• Private discussion started
• Private discussion replied

(More notification types are planned for groups soon)

Support our work

We prefer to keep our work available to everyone. In order to do so we rely on voluntary contributions on OpenCollective.

Links

• Discuss
• GitHub
• Issues
• Packagist

An extension by FriendsOfFlarum.