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Greetings everyone,

I'm seeking advice on the best way to share some content exclusively with registered and verified users on my website. I understand that I can configure the privileges setting for different user roles, including spiders, but I'm not entirely sure how this works.

On one hand, I'm thinking that allowing spiders to access all content could potentially boost my site's search engine rankings. On the other hand, I'd like to keep one or two paragraphs hidden from spiders, so that only verified users can view them.

My question is: How can I achieve this using NodeBB? Specifically, how can I grant spiders default access to my site's content while also ensuring that certain hidden files can only be accessed by verified users?

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. 👼

Hey all,

A total new starter here. Nice to meet you.

I am in the process of starting a new forum specific to the Australian audience and I was wondering if anyone could kindly recommend a good server to host the NodeBB Open-source software?

The website does suggest using Digital Ocean but I chose OVH Cloud (Essentials package) on someone else's recommendation. However, I am finding customer support on the latter hard to reach to. Everything is ticket-based and has no LIVE chat support over the weekends or phone calls. I have a Cloudways account also (a Digital Ocean company) but I wonder if they have the features to support NodeBB.

Maybe, you know other VPS providers who are really good, affordable, and have 24/7 customer support. Please do let me know as I am keen to get it all sorted over the weekend 🙂

Thank you so much! Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hi, i am pretty new to programming but I try to set up a platform where people can share tecnical ideas and build something together. However I am currently stuck in the windows installation. I am stuck at this command:

net stop MongoDB
net start MongoDB
mongo -u admin -p your_password --authenticationDatabase=admin

First I dont really know which console I have to use for this command. I used the mongosh exe, that came with the MongoDBshell. When typing in the command, I get the following error:

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should the database nodebb be visible in MongoDBCompass? It is not under the localhost adress 😛

Thanks in advance!

Today we're announcing that we've released the first release candidate of NodeBB v3.0.0.

What this means A release candidate means that we feel confident enough that we could launch v3 today. We won't though. A release candidate means that we will probably not work on any new features, and will focus more on any bugs that are discovered in the interim. The working branch for v3 was called bootstrap5. That branch has now been merged into develop, which is reserved for the next minor or major release version. In this case, the next version is v3, a major release version. Now that develop contains v3 code, all of the new language strings have been pushed to Transifex for active localisation. It means we're on the final stretch! @baris and I have been working hard on getting this ready, and we're anxious to see it running on production instances. We feel that v3 and the Harmony theme are a big step in the right direction, and look forward to crossing that finish line soon. How do we switch from bootstrap5 to develop?

If you were on the bootstrap5 branch, that branch no longer exists. You will want to switch to the develop branch going forward:

git fetch && git checkout develop && git reset --hard origin/develop

Migration Guide

Just a reminder that if you have a custom theme, there are quite a few breaking changes that could bite you. We put together a migration guide just for those admins.

Is it possible to host my own Nodebb or do I have to sign up for one the subscription packages?

I m getting below eror while upgrading my nodebb since 2.8.4 version.

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Should have posted this earlier but oh well, this topic quickly turned into bug report thread so please use this one to report any issues with 3.0.0.

This forum is running the latest version of core and harmony theme along with multiple plugins.

When reporting a bug please first check if it has been already reported or fixed.

3.0.0 open issues 3.0.0 closed issues

Hey guys! 🐈

I trying modify widget and add setting to add custom html in topic Title.

To do it I added this changes in this files:

1. https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-harmony/blob/main/library.js#L80

{ name: 'Main post title', template: 'topic.tpl', location: 'mainpost-title', },

2. https://github.com/DevSources/nodebb-theme-harmony-v3/blob/main/templates/topic.tpl#L11

{{{ if widgets.mainpost-title.length }}} <span data-widget-area="mainpost-title"> {{{each widgets.mainpost-title}}} {{widgets.mainpost-title.html}} {{{end}}} </span> {{{ end }}}

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This is works and I can add a custom html in mainpost-title and view it on /topic page. But I want to show a custom element from /topic titles and on two more pages /recent and /category.

To do it I need modify this file topics_list.tpl and add previous code with {{{ if widgets.mainpost-title.length }}}

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-harmony/blob/main/templates/partials/topics_list.tpl

But I don't understant how to add this page template
templates/partials/topics_list.tpl in this settings https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-harmony/blob/main/library.js#L63

I trying add this template topics_list.tpl to setting in this file, but it's not work 😞

'categories.tpl', 'category.tpl', 'topic.tpl', 'users.tpl', 'unread.tpl', 'recent.tpl', 'popular.tpl', 'top.tpl', 'tags.tpl', 'tag.tpl', 'login.tpl', 'register.tpl', 'partials/topics_list.tpl',

Hi, I m working on the global config vars. I couldn't find a way to set global value so I can use it in the template or custom theme templates. The only easy way to put something for templates is actually locale. but the problem is I have put the same value in all locale in order to work properly, otherwise, if someone uses a language in which I didn't set the locale, they won't see my required values.

Any easy way to put a config value in a file, and can use them on each template or even in the controller if possible. (template is priority)

Hi there,

Greetings!

I have been thinking about serving assets from an S3 bucket or another object storage. (I came across the plugin https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-s3-uploads but yet to check)

I was wondering whether it's possible to "effectively" serve from S3 buckets/a different object storage in different availability zones depending on the client (US/UK/Europe/Asia) to reduce the time that the assets take to load.

Also, I would love to hear about any other possible configurations anyone is using/suggesting with "serving different geo-locations" in mind.

Thank you

Hello,

Is there any intention to make the nodebb-plugin-shoutbox v3 compatible? Installs fine, but doesn't appear to work.

Thanks

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Hello

We have a lot of custom emojis on nodebb.

Sometines, we have emojis not loading properly, sometimes they load correctly after on refresh or several

I think about a problem of nginx conf maybe, or cache, or Cloudflare but i’m not sure and I don’t know with what to begin my research

An idea about that ?

nodebb 2.8.9 with redis scaling nodebb-plugin-emoji 4.0.6 cloudflare nginx

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Thanks in advance

Can somebody tell me if NodeBB (core or with plugin) supports fully threaded conversations, preferably with nested replies up to 4-layers deep? Thanks.

-- Aaron

As the saying goes — squeaky wheel gets the grease 🛢

We've been receiving a fair bit of spam lately. Most of them are stopped from registering at all by the built-in spam-be-gone plugin, so the remaining few are usually manual attempts to post content.

Too bad the post queue stops them dead in their tracks 😄

Dealing with them takes seconds... open the post queue, and reject the posts. You can even reject them all using the "Bulk Actions" button, but I like to go a step further and delete their entire account altogether.

When it comes down to it, the whole process takes 4 clicks. Go to their account, open mod tools, "Delete Account & Content", confirm. It takes a couple seconds, but that's a couple seconds longer than it should, so we integrated those tools directly into the post queue too:

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At the same time, we had @vladstudio work his magic on the page, so the entire page is presented a little more nicely.

Stay tuned for a small announcement tomorrow (22 March) regarding NodeBB and the Harmony theme 🙊

Hello all,

Yesterday (and today, technically), we released v3.0.0-alpha.1, the first alpha release of NodeBB v3.0.0

An alpha release is not meant to be production-ready, although at this point we feel confident enough to deploy it onto some sites.

An alpha release probably means most of your plugins are not upgraded for v3, although most of the changes are stylistic and just means they may function fine, but don't look nice. We did try to upgrade some of the most used plugins, and maintained a list as well.

An alpha release means there may be breaking changes that we did not document, although we tried our best to maintain a complete list. If you find any breaking changes not in this list, let us know here or by filing a new issue.

A quick note about plugins

Warning — plugins will not automatically upgrade, as v3.0.0-alpha.1 is technically a lesser version compared to v3.0.0, which is what upgraded plugins are advertised as compatible against. You will want to manually upgrade plugins to their latest versions via npm.

However...

There is one neat oddity about v3.0.0, is that there have been no schema changes since v1.19.3.. it means if you encounter issues with this alpha, you can go back to v2.x (or really, all the way back to v1.19.3, but why would you?)

Most importantly, how do I get this? cd /path/to/your/nodebb git rev-parse HEAD # save this value in case you need to roll back git fetch && git checkout bootstrap5 git reset --hard v3.0.0-alpha.1 ./nodebb upgrade -mi # now upgrade all your plugins to the latest version if available ./nodebb build

When no flags are passed to ./nodebb upgrade, the flags -mipsb are used. -psb is omitted above because p (plugins) don't upgrade for pre-releases, s (schema) there are no schema updates, and b (build) I assume you want to build separately.

To go back to v2.x, git checkout master and git reset --hard {hash} where {hash} is that value you saved earlier. Then run ./nodebb upgrade -mib

Enjoy!

launch

Hello, I am quite a newbie, playing with nodebb.

I don't understand how to run node.js standalone in a way that can be considered stable, so I run the docker image. Now, because of my inexperience I don't trust docker volumes at all, so I redirect directories. What I do in case of updates is: I delete everything, pull new image, replace files. What I am doing:

backup the mongo database backup /usr/src/app/config.json backup /usr/src/app/public/uploads

then after pulling fresh image, replace them.

Because if I replace /usr/src/app or /usr/src/app/public I would have outdated program files, right?

What do you think?

Hello,

I am modifying for my personal use the nodebb-plugin-shoutbox plugin : https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-shoutbox

I finished the French translation and I proposed it on the github.
On the other hand, the translation of the admin.json & shoutbox.json files on language directory is not enough.
You have to modify the text of other files for a complete translation.

I managed to modify the default commands and add new ones (text and sound) but there are 2 things I can't do for now, hence the creation of this topic :

Add @mention user completion :

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add emojis completion :

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--> If anyone could help me on these 2 topics or direct me to the right approach, I would be grateful.

Have a nice day

Hello,

We realized that we have no more statistics in the ACP since 2:00 am on ACP
Any idea what could be causing this kind of problem?

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I'm on nodebb 2.8.6

It's after hours so I asked ChatGPT to write this for me 👀:

NodeBB is currently evaluating its options in response to Docker's recent announcement that it will start deleting open source packages not associated with a paid plan. As an open-source forum software, we at NodeBB are concerned about the implications of this decision, both for ourselves and for other open-source developers who rely on Docker for package management.

In light of this news, we are exploring alternative options to Docker, such as the GitHub container registry, as we find the paid plan of Docker to be too expensive. However, we have not yet made a final decision and are still in the process of evaluating all the available options.

As an open-source community, we are dedicated to maintaining our commitment to accessibility and high-quality software. Therefore, we will be taking our time to ensure that we choose the best option for our users and our community as a whole.

Meilisearch for NodeBB

https://github.com/oplik0/nodebb-plugin-meilisearch

This plugin allows you to use Meilisearch as search backend instead of the database or Solr (see this topic for why some want to switch)

Installation

Install via plugins page in the ACP or run this command in NodeBB folder:

npm install nodebb-plugin-meilisearch Configuration install this plugin via ACP or by running npm install nodebb-plugin-meilisearch Activate in the plugins page (note: make sure dbsearch plugin is disabled) Rebuild and restart NodeBB Check that the plugin successfully connected to Meilisearch and adjust the connection settings in /admin/plugins/meilisearch if necessary. Meilisearch should start indexing all posts as soon as it connects for the first time, but if that didn't happen you can start reindexing from the ACP page Adjust other search settings as you see fit. Defaults should be good enough for most use cases though. Notes This plugin requires a Meilisearch instance or the same server or somewhere else your NodeBB instance can access This plugin conflicts with other search plugins and will not work if nodebb-plugin-dbsearch is active While it should work fine, note that it's still not well tested. User beware 🙂