Changing core behavior of users, postings, and comments – how realistic to do?
I want to modify some core behavior and introduce more features of postings and comments, such as defining multiple user circles and user types in flexible ways, disabling/enabling comments, advanced control over visibility of postings/comments with regards to different user circles, defining custom actions triggered by postings/comments, and other advanced behaviors that are not part of the core features offered out of the box. So, I would obviously be going beyond plug-in development and want to change some foundational system features (note: not planning to contribute back to the core just yet, want to experiment on my own copy). Can you please advise me - how well is the core model documented and capable of being modified? How modular and loosely-coupled is the system design to allow modifications that don’t easily break the entire system? I want to know if this would be overall practical and not prohibitively difficult to accomplish with this software, and if others have gone in the same direction before me.
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You are welcome to check how UNA is documented by checking this documentation which is generated from source code and updated every day:
To change something in the core we have 'alerts' which are actually 'hooks' which can be used to change different things in the core. But this hooks aren't available everywhere, but you are welcome to ask us to add hooks where you need and we'll do it in the next update.
Also we are going to add circles (privacy groups) in UNA 10 - https://github.com/unaio/una/issues/1909