It seems that Google is pushing for more structured data, with focus on content actually made by humans. They just announced support for DiscussionForumPosting structured data, and along with a "perspectives" filter and Discussions and Forums "category" in results that are trying to highlight social media/forum discussions, it seems their response to AI generated content breaking SEO (see this viral thread from founder of a company actively making the web worse) is promoting user-generated content and push the problem back to social media and forum moderation (see also their updates to quality rater guidelines adding an "experience" metric).

But why does structured data help here? Why only now? Well, I imagine it's also their response to LLMs. They didn't need that much structured data when one could be reasonably sure the free-flowing text was done by humans. So Google focused on analyzing the text themselves and didn't really need the websites to tell them what that is, since what mattered was the content more than who made the content. Now creating new text that looks human to their algorithms is becoming cheap, and trying to automatically moderate the entire internet isn't feasible. So it seems Google realized that they can't trust content providers to provide decent content, and while obviously bots are rampant in user-generated content too, it's not them who have to deal with moderation. Wikipedia and even Reddit seem to be more trustworthy than news articles or blogs for many issues (e.g. product reviews), so they need to adjust to not lose users (even if they are very much part of the issue themselves).

Anyway, NodeBB already implements this - so what's changing is that Google should now be able to pick up this metadata.
I'm saying should because it seems to be slightly broken currently - it's throwing errors because of invalid name data type for NodeBB (which from my understanding is done correctly here and should be serialized into text from the href value), and it seems to not even pick up on this on Discourse even though it implements it too. But I'm assuming these are implementation issues and will either be fixed by Google or worked around on forum software soon.

The point is, we're probably going to see resurgence of forums in search results. Probably along with more forum spam, but I hope the increased visibility will be worth the moderation burden. And maybe people won't need to add site:reddit.com to google searches soon 🙂

Side note: does this mean web 3.0 might actually somewhat succeed due to SEO benefits? I mean the "semantic web" web 3.0, not the cryptocurrency-based "web3" one.

Can we add option to Follow/Unfollow category in NodeBB

Hi @baris

I found on topic in that you discussed about the same. I also want to add What's App, Telegram etc. for sharing topics/posts.

I go through this topic, but dint get exactly what I need to do. Could you please elaborate more so I can understand the process to do?

Future of Post Sharing Options?

@phenomlab the guys maintaining https://github.com/auth0/passport-linkedin-oauth2 need to publish it to npm, I tried updating the linkedin plugin but it is u...

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Thanks & Regards

we have a forum hosting on nodebb.org -> http://iml.nodebb.com, we using a sso plugin to login this forum throuth our own site before. but since last month the plugin seems being deleted. we can not login this forum anymore.
and we do not have a admin account can direct login that forum.
when we want to login that forum through the nodebb.org dashboard "Forum Setting", it can not let me in to config the forum. can you guys in nodebb company help us to login the forum? now we do not have a way in.
see pic below. we have the nodebb hosting account
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Thank you

Hi guys, when we search something, it searches in Titles by default. But I want to search in Titles and posts by default. How can I do it?

Hi

How can I add filter on a topic page to filter it's related post's by ASC , DESC etc.

I am using 3.1.3 version

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Hi

I got different OG image while sharing post URL on different social media app.

Ex. URI Post Url

1) WHATSAPP :
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2) LINKEDIN :
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How can i fix this issue

Once a day, Misty pulls the latest translations in from Transifex. If you are a translator, and you wish to see your translations in NodeBB sooner rather than later, you can do so by running the pull command via the Transifex command line client.

This is the GitHub repository for the transifex client. The easiest way to install it is to run the script, as directed by the repository itself. When installed, it will expose tx as a globally accessible binary.

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transifex/cli/master/install.sh | bash

You'll probably have to create an API key for your Transifex account, so the client on your machine can interface with Transifex securely. You can create one here.

The transifex client will check for your token in a couple of places, one of which is ~/.transifexrc. Feel free to create that file with the following content:

[https://www.transifex.com] username = api password = YOURTOKEN rest_hostname = https://rest.api.transifex.com token = YOURTOKEN Transifex does weird things when some of the fields are missing. The above configuration seems to work, so adjust accordingly.

You (probably) do not have to do any further setup. The configuration in NodeBB's root folder is enough for Transifex to connect.

Retrieve the latest translations tx pull

There are a couple useful flags you can pass in to this command. You can discover them by passing in --help.

-f to force Transifex to overwrite the local file (occasionally the client gets confused over which file is newer, so this flag helps if you are certain) -l to only process a specific language, e.g. tx pull -l tr -r to only process a specific resource, e.g. tx pull -r nodebb.error

Hi,
NodeBB can make read status visible to selected groups?
It can be show which users have read what, show instant-messaging-like read status for small communities.

We have all Popular Social authentication and have not APPLE,

Wll be fine!

isCluster
Set this to true if you have multiple machines each running a single NodeBB process. This setting is not required if you have multiple NodeBB processes running either on a single or multiple machines.

Now that I'm developing a Helm chart for NodeBB, I think this config confused me quite a bit. In Kubernetes we can use the Deployment resource to spawn multiple pod, that each runs an independent NodeBB process that could spawn in any node.

So, if I scale the NodeBB deployment to 3 replicas, does that mean I have multiple machines each running a single NodeBB process, or do I have multiple NodeBB processes running either on a single or multiple machines?

The locations of the replicas pods depend on the schedulers decision, meaning all of the replicas can stay on the same node, unless Pod Topology Spread Constraints or Node Affinity is enforced.

I need this so that I can test my Helm chart

Hey there, thanks for checking out my plugin. Please be aware this plugin is still in it's early stages. While many features do work, many more features have yet to be implemented.

Source: (MIT-0 license)
https://github.com/yariplus/nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended

Issues/Suggestions:
https://github.com/yariplus/nodebb-plugin-featured-topics-extended/issues

Featured Topics Extended

Featured Topics Extended is a plugin for creating lists of topics and featuring them on different areas of the forum.

There are two types of lists: User Lists and Global Lists.

User Lists

The default user list is "Blog".
Each user has their own unique set of lists.
Topics are added manually to a User List by using the Post Tools menu on the FIRST POST of a topic.
Lists are managed on the /user/<user>/featured page.

Blog Page

The topics featured in the default Blog list are automatically displayed on the /user/<user>/blog page.

Global Lists

The default admin list is "News"
All admins and global moderators share the same set of lists.
Topics are added manually to a Global List by using the Topic Tools menu of a topic.
Lists are managed on the /featured page.

News Page

The topics featured in the default News list are automatically displayed on the /user/<user>/blog page.

The style of the news page is very customisable from within the ACP settings page. You can also select from a list of styles that mimic popular blogging sites.

Widgets

The are an extensive amount of widgets for Featured Topics Extended. With widgets, you can place a Featured Topic List almost anywhere on your forum. Widgets are available that match parts of your forum's theme exactly or that mimic widgets from other plugins such as widget-essentials.

The news page itself is also available in widget form. In this way, you can have any page display blog-like topics using their own list and their own style.

To-dos More templates for widgets. Feature by tag. Feature by creator.

Hello 👋

Please help me, how to show username in panel header?

I try

Welcome, {{username}}

it’s not work.

Example, when user log in to forum, he is view welcome banner (panel) with text “Welcome to forum @Username”

I just installed Nodebb using this installation instruction to test it before I use it for real forum. On Nodebb v2 the footer is showing but it is missing from Nodebb v3. The other thing is the "Home" icon is not showing in the navigation section like it is shown here on Nodebb forum. During the installation I skipped the part that says ''security: authorization: enabled'' because it was preventing Nodebb from being installed correctly for some reason. I'm not sure if the home icon and footer missing related to it. I need some help please. Thank you.

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Today Openai public the api for chatGpt to use, can nodebb support such widgets that let user put the conversation bar anywhere?(just put the token from opena at backend.I think this will be more useful ! fantastic

I'm trying to understand how google indexes my Nodebb forum, maybe one of you could help me ?…
Obviously i'd like to get as many clicks on links to my forum as possible, but from what i'm gathering, whenever people search for words that do appear on my forum, they get different links (to the last post that's been published in a thread , or to a random page within the thread).
e.g. there's a thread about a specific movie on my forum, the thread holds the same title as the movie itself, but when people google the name of the movie + forum, they get results pointing to a post in the middle of the thread, not to the first page.
So no matter how successful a topic of discussion is on my site, it never really gets the recognition i wish it had on google, not because it's not indexed but because it is indexed several times, via multiple links, some of which hold no specific interest.
How can i send clear instructions to google on which pages are relevant / important to index ?
(sorry if this is a silly question, i'm clearly no expert… 😕)

Hello, my name is Ian.

We are looking for a forum deployment and administration specialist to join our team.
We planned to deploy a forum on node bb, but there is no experienced specialist on the team. The work can be either one-time or permanent.

Maybe you might be interested in this or could you recommend it to a friend?

Hey! 🌵

I have a problem with multiple domains, I'm use this faq and added multiple domain mysite.com and mysite.net in config.json

{ "port": 4567, "socket.io": { "origins": "https://mysite.com:*,https://mysite.net:*" } }

I can open forum with new domain (mysite.net), but console show errors from manifest and service worker for PWA and from emoji plugin:

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and when I open sitemap on https://mysite.net/sitemap.xml I view urls with mysite.com domain...

It's possible use multiple domain for forum with full support PWA, sitemap and assets?

It is a plugin?or a theme?
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