Design discussion

[Venefilyn]

My proposal to the application aggregator is as follows:

• Scrap Google Forms and go with our own form layout. We should imitate Google Forms in some manner, though could go with more fields to allow more flexibility.
• Overview of mod applications
  • Graph of time submitted, containing the dates of moderation posts about the mod application.
  • Be able to see at a glance how many applications we have
  • Be able to sort and filter applications, such as by: not unseen, not voted, not noted, account age, karma, toolbox notes
  • Display their score and amount of positive & negative notes.
  • Have option of visually showing their score and pos/neg notes
• Individual mod applications
  • They should be linked to the user through Reddit OAuth2. We should store data of:
    • username,
    • avatar,
    • karma,
    • moderated subreddits with info of how long and what permissions,
    • account age, and
    • time of mod application.
  • We also retrieve and store
    • their user activity on the subreddit,
    • and toolbox user notes.
  • Have links to their user profile.
  • Actions moderators can do:
    • Can up/downvote applications to cast their vote
    • Can leave comments on the user
    • Can vote on notes such as Poor communication skills, Terrible username
    • Can add custom notes with notation whether it's a positive or negative attribute
• Have 3 user groups, all created through Reddit OAuth2:
  • Admin
    • Can change settings for the aggregator.
    • Can add default notes
  • Moderator
    • Can view mod application forms and answers created after they joined the moderation team.
  • User
    • Can view, submit and edit their mod application.

Technical side of things

• Utilize NUXT as it allows for an universal application, meaning less code. There is an alternative for React, but never used React myself.
• Be mobile first to allow checking on the go
• Allow sending to webhooks for updates. Whether it be new applications, up/downvotes, comments, or notes.
  • Should allow to only send updates if previous update was x time ago. As to not spam.

[jacksonwelsh]

In case you weren't aware of this repo- https://github.com/LilSpazJoekp/UsernoteModule

It could be very helpful for grabbing usernotes, we use it on DankMemes.

[Venefilyn]

Thanks!

[Venefilyn]

Reading more up on Nuxt, it's not fully universal where we can code back-end and front-end as one, but rather just utilizing SSR (server-side rendering) to allow for better SEO.

So with backend I would suggest we do VueJS + whatever project is easiest for REST API, I would presume lightweight Python project, such as tornado. That way we can also utilize the UsernoteModule jackson suggested. @ktechmidas can focus on the backend of things then

[jacksonwelsh]

Also of note would be this repo: https://github.com/Jakeable/rforms. I'm currently working with an instance of it here.

[Venefilyn]

Thanks, I think we should be working on top of rforms instead of creating our own. That way we're not reimplementing anything, just improving it