@steed Although I think your way should have worked out if not for a small error (below), @bhepler 's advice is much better, because otherwise you will have a problem as soon as you want to update the mirror software.
The module’s own .js files themselves are part of the git workflow, if you change them locally and are not common to using git, you’ll be in a fine mess later on and will not know what to do.
Therefore, it’s ideal to use the config.js or custom.css for changes because they will be ignored by the git workflow.

However in your approach you have only one small mistake

	remoteFile: "~/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliments/remote_compliments.json",

should read

	remoteFile: "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliments/remote_compliments.json",

The “~” leads to your home/pi directory therefore it was redundant and the system was looking for /home/pi/home/pi/…

OR just use this

	remoteFile: "remote_compliments.json",

n1016 - Moers, Germany
n957 - Duisburg, Germany
n973 - Krefeld, Germany
n2011 - Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany

…yes, with an ü!

Now you’re in a fine mess… hehe!

@seann
My suggestion: Fire up the mirror UI on your browser, press F12, move the move over your module, right click -> inspect.
Then look at the styles section and play with switching styles on and off.
Then you can use whatever you need in your own css overwriting main.css in your module.

@steed You can outsource all data you want to show into one .json file and use day times as sections. It’s described in the readme of the module.
E.g. I created a .json with random citations just including them all into one file in the anytime section

{
    "anytime" : [
    
    ]
}

As @broberg said: Freedom! You can do anything and you can use the OS itself for any further Raspbian things you would like. (A mirror as a jdownloader host? possible… Measuring temp in bath room directly using the mirror? possible…)
There are so many possibilities…

Also, you don’t necessarily have to throw any html or setup a web server. It’s all done automatically at the installation.
Yes, if you want to go forward there’s a lot to learn, but I have contributed / played with a lot of modules already and not written more than 3 lines of html (albeit lots of JS)

@cr4z33 it is shown if you include

concise: false 

into the config.
That’s the way to show more info.
If you want to ONLY show the wind direction you would have to manipulate the .js file manually in line 429

      windSpeed: Math.round(speed) + " " + this.getUnit("windSpeed") + (!this.config.concise ? " " + this.getOrdinal(bearing) : ""),

into

      windSpeed: Math.round(speed) + " " + this.getUnit("windSpeed") + " " + this.getOrdinal(bearing),

In my case this unfortunately messes up the layout a bit. But it seems to work.

have you tried another region or just removing the newsfeed. Just an idea but maybe this module is out of the picture…

Also, the newsfeed module only shows the book because it searches in the xml the and part. If you can get the newsfeed module to show more (the part) it could work

@warmyster if it is still about this module, maybe @Sean can help since it’s his module

@sebien0077 Have you done a reboot? I hear they can do wonders!

@sdetweil Well well I was googling “chartjs” about the minute you wrote this down today! Ha! Great.
I’d like to use it to make some amendments to MMM-rain-forecast and maybe get in my own graph.
Have you seen MMM-chart, a MM cahrt template, which also seems to have examples of applications like yours.
I haven’t taken a close look into any of it but I’ll do soon.
Cheers and good luck!