Love the AskMe addon, but having some issues...

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Installed Blatchy AskMe 1.0.62 in a test environment using a clean XF theme.

I absolutely love this addon! There are a few minor and medium issues that I will mention, and I can probably fix myself, but want to share with you. And one major issue that is a showstopper for me until it can be fixed.

I hope you don't take this as negative, as I do like your addon and am just testing things out before I try running it on a live site.

Minor issues, no big deal, I can fix on my own:
  • Install Warning: "The hashes.json file for this add-on is missing so no file health check can be performed."
  • Featured Questions is confusing because the header is plural, but it appears only one single question can be featured at a time.
  • CSS Font Problems:
    • Question with no answer inherits the normal style font (good!)
    • Question with no answer is using a different style font included with the addon
  • Sidebar Widget: Desperately needs some CSS to be usable.
  • Deleting the addon turns everything ito threads/posts. Love this so the data is maintained as normal XF content. But the question posts and answer posts are based only on time stamps so the thread is extremely confusing for anyone looking at it. Is it possible that an answer automatically quotes the question, but doesn't show the quote in the AMA and only shows the quote when read as a normal post. I would think the easiest way would be to use CSS to hide the quoted question within the AMA session.
Medium Issue, and the source of confusion:
When a user enters the AMA, they are greeted by questions. All good here. But at the bottom, it's confusing that this is where to ask a question because:
  • The input box to write the questions says "Write your reply..."
  • To submit your question, it says "Post Reply"
I understand both of these are simply using the normal XF functionality for posting, but it would be less confusing if these 2 language phrases can be changed inside the AskMe node:
  • reply_placeholder
  • post_reply
Major Issue, needs to be fixed for prime time:
Unless it's something I am doing wrong, I think the user permissions are not working correctly for:
  • Can submit questions to AskMe sessions
When this is set to "No" or "Never" the user can still submit questions.

The other AskMe permissions do appear to work. Although I wish the buttons would appear/disappear based on the permissions instead of throwing an error when the user doesn't have permission.

One More Issue, No Idea
I don't know how to manage this one, and maybe it's just going to be an inconvenient thing to deal with, but when using the moderator function to copy a question inside the AMA, it creates a new Thread inside the AMA node and does not show as another Question. And then it's stuck inside the node, since you cannot see it, unless you manually go back in the browser to find and delete it. Not a bug, but it's making a thread instead of a question inside the AMA forum node. No idea how to handle this?

Thanks for taking the time,
 
"The hashes.json file for this add-on is missing
Thats a development choice. Too often I have users changing script then come here when Xenforo says something is wrong.

I will look at the others.. but somethings I am unsure what you are even doing.. "but when using the moderator function to copy a question inside the AMA" ???? Why are you copying questions?
 
Thats a development choice. Too often I have users changing script then come here when Xenforo says something is wrong.
I understand. I can resolve this on my own. Was just making you aware.

I am unsure what you are even doing.. "but when using the moderator function to copy a question inside the AMA" ???? Why are you copying questions?
The need to step in and moderate is only happening because of another addon that automatically merges a user's posts when making consecutive posts within x number of minutes. So what ends up happening:
  1. User posts a question in the AMA and submits.
  2. User posts a second question in the AMA and submits. But because of the back to back posts, it auto merges into one Question.
  3. Admin can edit the Question/Post to remove the extra question. But I thought copying the Question/Post would just make it another Question/Post.
The manual workaround is to delete the second question that automatically merges into the post, and then repost the new question. Otherwise, I may have to disable the automatic merging of back to back posts across the entire forum during AMA sessions.
 
I would rather just limit the amount of questions that can be asked then mess with that addon

Yeah, you could limit the number of questions a user can ask every x amount of time. So a user can ask multiple questions during the AMA, but not all at once.

But I am also ok disabling the auto-merge addon during the AMA session to encourage users to post their questions. Because the first AMA is going to be a weird experiment to see if the community will actually use it 😂
 
CSS Font Problems:
  • Question with no answer inherits the normal style font (good!)
  • Question with no answer is using a different style font included with the addon
Are you saying one is your preference? Because both states use font-family: serif via .blatchyAskMe-epost-qText / .blatchyAskMe-epost-aText
 
But I am also ok disabling the auto-merge addon during the AMA session
Admin CP → Forums → Node permissions find the "Auto Merge Double Posts" section → set Bypass merge = Yes for whichever user or user group should not get merged.
 
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