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A Flarum 2 extension that gives your forum one question a day, right on the front page. Members answer in a line or two, and everyone else's answers stay hidden until you post yours. Then the answers open up, people react to the best ones, and tomorrow's card features yesterday's top answer.

What members get

A card on the front page with today's question, a box to answer it, and how many members already have (their faces, not their words). Once you answer, the card shows the three best answers so far and a link to the rest.
Answers unlock when you post yours. The server refuses to send anyone else's answer until you've posted your own, so there's no peeking, even through the API.
Reactions (👍 ❤️ 😂 🔥 😮) on other people's answers, sorted by Top or New.
Yesterday's top answer on today's card: the one with the most reactions when the day closed.
Streaks: answer the next question and your streak grows. A day the pool ran dry doesn't break it. There's a board for who's on a roll and the longest streaks ever.
An archive of every past question with all its answers and its winner.
Suggest questions and upvote other members' suggestions. Moderators approve the good ones into the pool, and the most upvoted go first.
A daily reminder: members who switch it on get an alert when a new question goes up, and the member who suggested a question hears when it's picked.

What admins and moderators get

A new question at local midnight, in the timezone you choose. The scheduler picks the next one from the pool: anything scheduled for that day first, then the most upvoted, then the oldest.
The pool, visible only to moderators: add questions one per line, add a 60-question starter pack in one click, schedule a question for a date, or ask one right now (it replaces today's if nobody has answered it yet).
The queue: approve or reject members' suggestions.
Moderate answers: open today's answers without answering, and delete any answer.
Optional daily discussion: each question can also start a discussion (posted as a member you choose, in a tag you choose) for open conversation.
Permissions for viewing, answering, suggesting and moderating.

Installation

composer require ernestdefoe/question-of-the-day
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Then enable Question of the Day in the admin panel, set your timezone, and add some questions (or the starter pack) from Question of the Day → Suggest on the forum.

New questions go up when the Flarum scheduler runs (php flarum schedule:run every minute from cron). Without a scheduler, the next visit after midnight puts the question up instead; reminders and the daily discussion then follow from your queue worker, or straight away if you have none.

Updating

composer update ernestdefoe/question-of-the-day
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Privacy

Answers are only ever sent to members who answered the same question (or to moderators who open it to moderate) until the next question replaces it; then they become part of the public archive for anyone who can view questions. With flarum/gdpr enabled, a member's answers, suggestions and streak are in their data export, and erasing an account removes their answers, reactions and votes.

Links

If this extension makes your forum a little busier every day, you can buy me a coffee. ☕

ernestdefoe / question-of-the-day

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