Hello! Which plugin should I use to send emails via smtp mail.ru?
smtp, port and password are entered correctly)
Tested through test smtp message sending services

Do I need to get all the RSS feeds in a category or get the RSS feed from the page navigation? Can it be done?

How can we restrict a user from deleting a thread they created? I cannot find this in options?

Also, have an issue where one user shows that someone is follwing them, but that user never requested to follow them. Now this user is receiving notifications when the other user posts.

I've posted about this before and I'm always told it's not a problem. If it's not a problem, why does Google and now Bing constantly send me emails like this one.

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Canonical tags can be used to help de-dupe URLs for pages with the same or very similar content. Bing has detected that your site is using what appears to be the same canonical URL for a large number of pages that are not the same. This may be indicative of a problem with your HTML template, content publishing system, or site code. You should review the source of your pages and check if the URLs used inside the <link rel="canonical" href="<url>" /> are not accidentally pointing to the same location for all (or too many) pages.
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Not indexed as this page is an alternate version of a canonical page
URL cannot appear on Bing
Discovered on 21 Jun 2023
Last crawl attempted 21 Jun 2023 at 00:43
Crawl allowed? Yes
Page Fetch Successful
Indexing allowed? Yes
Canonical URL:xxx
This page is an alternate version of the similar page which you have specified as canonical version using a <link rel="canonical"> tag. Bing does not index the alternate version.
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No matter what I do, both search engines keep complaining about this and I've no idea how to fix it. We badly need our forums to be properly indexed and we're not seeing that after using nodebb for probably over two years now.

Any thoughts?

What is swagger ui path in nodebb?

hi we have a forum hosting on nodebb.org: iml.nodebb.com,
if I just access https://iml.nodebb.com, it will redirect me to nodebb.org
also if I try to access a non existing url in my forum, it will also redirect me to nodebb.org.
Question Need Help

how can I setup a https for my forum,
2.how to stop redirect to nodebb.org, the users are complaining about this. we want you just stay on our forum with a 404 page or redirect to our forum home page

Thank you

client.css is not found when I'm loading the site. Not sure what's going on.

This is a new install.

I don't see any debugging steps for this anywhere.

Started with 2.x from not cloning the repo with a branch specified, upgraded to 3.x

Rebuild doesn't seem to trigger any kind of errors.

Should client.css be in build/public?

What can I do here?

On mobile the social login options are hidden all the way at the bottom and you cant see them unless you scroll up. If the developers fix it please.

Hello everyone!

Today we are releasing NodeBB 3.5.0. Please read below for all the changes in this release.

Ability to follow tags and receive notifications 🏷️

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Starting with 3.5.0 you will be able to watch individual tags. Whenever a topic is posted that has those tags you will get a notification and/or email depending on your notification settings. This is useful for watching system tags like security and release.

You can watch tags directly from the tag page or from your watched tags page.

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Emoji dialog category icons 😀

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We've revamped our emoji dialog to use category icons instead of labels and got rid of the horizontal scrollbar.

Tenor gif and emoji buttons in chat 💬

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Plugins can add buttons into the chat composer via our hooks system, we've added support for this in two plugins nodebb-plugin-tenor-gif and nodebb-plugin-emoji.

Limit chat message interval 🕰️

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A new setting that controls the delay between chat messages for regular and new users. This was hardcoded too 200 milliseconds before.

Ability to edit pinned chat messages 📌

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Pinned messages are now editable in the pinned message area, so you don't have to go searching for it in the message area.

Add "forked from" message to topics 🍴

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Just like merged topics, forked topics will display a banner at the top showing which topic they were forked from.

Notifications for rewards 🏆

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Prior to 3.5.0 there was no way to see if you received an award. We added two notifications; one for being added to a group and one for receiving reputation.

Bug fixes & Misc 🐛

As usual there are plenty of bug fixes in this release.

Full list of closed issues

Let us know if you run into any issues in our support thread

Hi,
I am moving into Nodebb from Discourse, and I wonder if there is any option similar to the trust levels that discourse has in nodebb.

If not, what does people use as alternative?

Also, is there a discobot or similar to welcome automatically the users?

Thanks!

Can we add option to Follow/Unfollow category in NodeBB

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We're happy to announce that NodeBB has applied for and been greenlit for a grant from the NLNet Foundation under the NGI Core Zero program!

Astute observers may have noticed that between May and August, a branch with a corresponding draft pull request was opened, purporting to bring ActivityPub integration to NodeBB. This was some initial R&D and investigation into whether the idea had merit, and soon afterwards, we applied in the August call for applications for the NGI Core Zero grant program.

tl;dr

In this project, the team will be working on bringing ActivityPub integration to NodeBB, in order to allow forums to become truly interconnected with other ActivityPub-enabled applications throughout the wider Fediverse (of course including other NodeBB forums). The absolute hardest part of starting a community — forum or otherwise — is gaining a critical mass of adoption in order to sustain interest and content. What if we could bypass this hurdle altogether?

In other words, we hope to solve a common problem with forum software and community building in general: how can we lower the activation energy of a community launch, and jumpstart community growth? Often times, starting a forum is a lonely endeavour. You run head-first into the chicken-and-egg problem: You have no posts, because you have no users, and users don't join because you don't have any posts.

Different strategies have been used over the years to combat this. Some admins choose to set up plugins to automatically convert RSS feed entries into topics, others post prolifically and share links to their forum in the hopes that others will come check it out. Some less-than-honest admins probably even create many fake accounts in order to mimic a healthy community, when it is really just a single person talking to themselves 😉 .

The problem remains, however — it is hard to build a community from scratch!

What if this wasn't necessary? What if instead of building a closed-off island and hoping people settle down, we built bridges to every other island in the world?

This is where the ActivityPub protocol (and its interconnected network of sites, affectionately known as the Fediverse) comes in. With an ActivityPub-enabled NodeBB forum, you would be able to communicate with any other website that also implements the same protocol: Mastodon, Pixelfed, Firefish, and potentially Bluesky/Threads!

Users would be able to follow each other across different sites, and post/reply to each other without even needing to be on the same site. The possibilities for cross-communication are endless. Users would be able to be part of a larger network while simultaneously maintaining the individual quirks and niche content that makes forums strong.

With this grant, ActivityPub integration would become my main focus (and the main focus of NodeBB v4). It's a little early to talk timelines, but I'm ambitiously hoping to have something concrete to show within the first half of 2024.

Related

NLnet; 55 New Projects Awarded NGI0 Grants

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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

What would be involved in changing the domain name of the forums?
I've had to do this many times in the past and most times, it's been an absolute nightmare.

Nodebb seems so well designed that I'm hoping it's a relatively simple task.

Note: Latest stable is v3.4.3

If you have problems upgrading to 3.4.0 you can ask for help here.

The site was working fine, but a dog attacked my server and I had to use cloudflare, but there was a 403 error and the site was inaccessible.

Earlier this week, Google's announced changes to Search, regarding Structured Data and the new DiscussionForumPosting markup type:

New in structured data: discussion forum and profile page markup  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

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NodeBB has supported Structured Data for awhile now (years, probably?), and has marked our own topics with the DiscussionForumPosting type since February of this year.

It was discovered that while the data properly validates, there was potential for confusion based on how the MicroData embedded by NodeBB is parsed by search engines. That was recently fixed in the Harmony theme and NodeBB now correctly validates to Google's latest expectations.

In a broader context it is wonderful that Google has taken steps to support the DiscussionForumPosting type. They used to classify forum topics/posts by their own proprietary metrics and formulas, and it was always a gamble as to what Google would consider indexable. With these latest changes, site owners themselves are able to explicitly highlight which items are important for search engines to consume, in a standards-compliant way. 💯 !

Special thanks to NodeBB power user and contributor @oplik0 for single-handedly updating our implementation to better support Google Search's new requirements 😄 He also wrote some thoughts down about these changes in a related topic: Pushing forums in the AI SEO domination era — go check it out!

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Hello guys 🙂

Since imgur is messing around at full speed at the moment (error message, registration problem, monitoring), I would like to change the image host for my forum.

I don't want to host the images locally for cost reasons (17GB of images in 2 years...)

The nodebb imgur plugin (nodebb-plugin-imgur) was really great because all the images uploaded/used (topic, avatars, etc..) on the forum were not hosted locally

On the same principle as this plugin, I make a plugin creation request to be able to do exactly the same thing but on another image host.
And to have another alternative than imgur as a possibility is interesting.

The ideal would be an internationally renowned host such as zupImages or imgbb or another if you know of them.
ImgBB seems to work like imgur with almbum, secret, etc..
It is therefore quite possible that writing the plugin is quite simple if we base ourselves on the work done on the imgur plugin..

Here is info from imgbb API : https://api.imgbb.com

Thank you in advance for reading me, hoping that a beautiful, sympathetic soul, a developer moreover, will tackle this task.