🚀 [Feature] Show "Powered by ocelot.social" link in footer

sushidave commented 1 year ago

🚀 Feature

In order to better promote the ocelot.social software, the network admins should have an option to show a "Powered by ocelot.social" item in the footer that links to the home page of ocelot.social.

As discussed with @Jensebluemchen, @ulfgebhardt and @Tirokk.

Points to consider:

The link text should adapt to the selected language.
Add rel="nofollow" to the hyperlink tag to avoid negative effects on SEO.
Make the entire footer content configurable, see #5672

Points to discuss:

[ ] Change the default "Made with <3" to "Powered by ocelot.social", showing the software name?
[ ] Show that it's "open source" software?
[ ] Move the version number to another location?
[ ] Show the software name in the avatar menu (additionally/instead)?

Design proposals

Version a

"Powered by ocelot.social" and version number shown in the avatar menu, linked to the ocelot.social website resp. the releases page on GitHub.
Version number not shown in the footer anymore but in the avatar menu = visible for logged-in users only.
Default link text in the footer stays "Made with <3". Network admin can hide item - or - change link text by #5672.
"Open source" not shown.

Version b

"Made with (heart) and ocelot.social" and version number discretely shown in a smaller font on the second line in the footer. Ocelot.social is links to the ocelot.social website, the version links to to the releases page on GitHub.
Made with (heart) and the version number are shown on the 2nd line instead.
By #5672 , the network operator can show e.g. a link to an "About us" or to another page.
"Open source" not shown

javierlpzdr commented 1 year ago

Hello! If it's ok for you, I pick this issue to start collaborating with the project :)

sushidave commented 1 year ago

Hi @javierlpzdr and welcome to this project! I'm copying in @Tirokk who will contact you and provide you with the details. Thanks a lot in advance! :)

Tirokk commented 1 year ago

Hey @javierlpzdr ,

I apologize for my late replay. I still have a heavy cough, but it getting better now.

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This is a bit controversal issue in the maintainers group. We already had this closed PR as approach, which was heavely rejected by a team member. But we had no time to discuss this deeper: https://github.com/Ocelot-Social-Community/Ocelot-Social/pull/6521

You can do a suggestion PR, but no garanty that it will be accepted.

I am not sure that @Mogge argument that we would already have "Made with ❤️" carries along without a counter argument. See here https://stage.ocelot.social

The ocelot.social plattform may not be mentioned on the page behind "Made with ❤️".

Or the network doesn't even have this page link in the footer activated. See here https://stage.yunite.me

But may be we would like to have a config to switch it on and off in file webapp/constants/links.js.

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I think the goal should be:

to have it nicely layouted together with the version number:
- probaly as small and short as possible
- may be in to lines?
to have a separate link on it to https://ocelot.social additional to the link of the version
to have the same color for Powered by ocelot.social as for the version link
to have the it configurable by switching it on and off

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If you are not interested to go into a controversal issue, please feel free to chose another one.

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sushidave commented 1 year ago

@Tirokk Thank you for the info. @javierlpzdr Sorry, it seems that this feature request needs some rethinking. I'm going to review it shortly with @Tirokk and report on it. Or feel free to pick another good first issue.

sushidave commented 1 year ago

Hello @javierlpzdr @Tirokk @Mogge and I reviewed the feature. We found some points to consider and some that need further discussion, see above. I will create some (visual) proposals that could support our decision making and will post them here. Thanks for bearing with us.

sushidave commented 1 year ago

Design proposal added, see above.

javierlpzdr commented 1 year ago

Thanks for inviting me to collaborate, And sorry for my late response, I was a little busy these days. I was following the conversation though. I'm going to unassign myself since this requiere some discussion where maybe I need some context first. But I will try to following and participate on this. But meanwhile, if there's I will take care of more straight forward issue. Thanks!

Tirokk commented 1 year ago

I suggested you issue #6687 as a starting point. @javierlpzdr

sushidave commented 1 year ago

@javierlpzdr @Jensebluemchen @Mogge @Tirokk Hey guys, I added a 2nd design proposal. It combines some of the points we discussed and is a compromise.

It keeps the emotional "made with (heart)" instead of the rather rational "powered by...". (suggested by @Mogge )
It discretely promotes the name of the software (suggested by @Jensebluemchen )
It separates the network operator's items from the software/developer's items.

What do you think?

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