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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    One of the first important things to do after setting up NodeBB is to set up an emailer plugin. While NodeBB does include a local emailer, if your forum is particularly active we recommend using an third-party emailer such as SendGrid which provides better deliverability for sites that send a high volume of email. Setting up SendGrid in NodeBB is very easy.

    Open the administrative dashboard using the 'gear' icon on your forum. Open the Extend > Plugins menu, and select the Find Plugins tab. Use the search on the right. Type 'SendGrid' and the plugin should appear -- select Install when you see it. From Installed tab on the Plugins menu, search again for 'SendGrid' and select Activate. Activating the plugin will require a restart of your forum. To restart, select the Dashboard menu and press the Restart button to the right. After NodeBB restarts, the SendGrid plugin will be active.

    After you restart, there should be a item called Emailer (SendGrid) under the Plugins menu -- if you don't see this right away, try refreshing your browser.

    Sign up to SendGrid

    Go to the SendGrid website, open the pricing page and scroll to the bottom. Click on the link and create your free account. Once you've confirmed your SendGrid account via email, you should be able to login to the SendGrid website. On the left side of your SendGrid dashboard, open Settings and click on API Keys. Click the button in the top right to create a new key. Make sure that the key has Full Access for Send Mail and Alerts. ย When you are done, the new key to your clipboard.

    Now, return to the SendGrid menu on your NodeBB admin panel. Paste the API key into the field, and save your changes. Now go back to the Dashboard to restart your forum one more time.

    SendGrid should now be working for your forum.

    YouTubeย Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB

  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    Thanks dude @baris

    Works great know on Smartphone an Desktop ๐Ÿ™‚

    Love it !

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    Cool, very intuitive

  • Global moderators unable to change email addresses

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    @alejandrocobo thanks for reporting. I created an issue to track https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/12057

  • 3.4.0 Upgrade Support

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  • NTFY: NodeBB

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    @julian Confirmed working - thanks.

  • The register with email have bug after version 3 upgrade

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    The error in your screenshot suggests that the client-side js file did not correctly load. It could be that there was a server-side runtime error, or an error during asset build.

    Do you see any errors when building, or when running NodeBB?

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    @gili-gili What is the output of caddy validate ?

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    @tecy Happy to help. I am a "former" Plesk user so understand all of it's nuances!

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    Hi folks,

    I am grateful, that I can give something back to the community.
    This is only the short excerpt of the console.
    But the forum is working ๐Ÿ˜„

    Basically, I was just installing the modules, which nodebb meant where missing.
    that did the job.

    This is my solution,
    may it be helpful to others.

    $ ./nodebb upgrade Error: Cannot find module '/opt/nodebb/node_modules/request-promise-native/lib/rp.js'. $ npm install request-promise-native $ ./nodebb upgrade error: uncaughtException: Cannot find module 'request-promise-core/configure/request2' $ npm install request-promise-core $ ./nodebb upgrade error: Error: Cannot find module 'stealthy-require' $ npm install stealthy-require NodeBB v3.4.2 Copyright (C) 2013-2023 NodeBB Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es). 2023-09-27T12:18:09.201Z [4567/2922161] - info: Initializing NodeBB v3.4.2 [...] 2023-09-27T12:18:11.071Z [4567/2922161] - info: [api] Adding 0 route(s) to `api/v3/plugins` 2023-09-27T12:18:11.087Z [4567/2922161] - info: [router] Routes added 2023-09-27T12:18:11.090Z [4567/2922161] - info: ๐ŸŽ‰ NodeBB Ready 2023-09-27T12:18:11.091Z [4567/2922161] - info: ๐Ÿค Enabling 'trust proxy' 2023-09-27T12:18:11.093Z [4567/2922161] - info: ๐Ÿ“ก NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567 2023-09-27T12:18:11.093Z [4567/2922161] - info: ๐Ÿ”— Canonical URL:
  • Simplemachines (SMF) 2.1.x import?

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    @Themistocles-Papassilekas said in Simplemachines (SMF) 2.1.x import?:

    However, are you talking about some specific SMF exporter? I haven't seen any on the SMF side!

    They're probably talking about nodebb-plugin-import which works alongside an exporter plugin like nodebb-plugin-import-smf by providing a common API for the exporters to use (and yeah, exporter plugins have import in the name... Makes a bit of sense since nodebb-plugin-export-smf would suggest it's exporting to SMF, but it's still a bit weird)

    I'm not sure how well maintained that is honestly, but NodeBB database schema hasn't seen any major changes in the last few years - still, the best idea might be to follow what the readme offers, install NodeBB 1.12.1, import data from SMF and then upgrade NodeBB to 3.x. Though note that you'll probably want to switch to Harmony theme after upgrading, since you'll be defaulted to the old Persona theme ๐Ÿ™‚

    The bigger question is whether the SMF plugin will work with 2.1.4, since it was tested on 2.0.3 and hasn't been updated in the last few years

  • Markdown and Composer plugins error

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    I was just restarting, but now I'm going to rebuild. Seeing a Turkish admin makes me very happy

  • Forum content keeps getting deleted

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    @PitaJ Yes, only use Redis for Clustering - DB is Mongo ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Action event (client side) for creating and updating posts

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    @baris Perfect! Thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

  • How to add a panel of users and connected in real time?

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    Only I see that there is an option to add a panel on the home page with how many are registered and how many are connected in real time and a few other things, and I don't know how to add it.

    Can you share a screenshot of this? It sounds like the board stats widget

  • Docker compose

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    @mschwartz Do you have any suggestions for a better NodeBB Docker image?

    I see the one from ghcr.io/rez0n/nodebb:latest is v1.19.1 (latest v3.4.2)..

    Thanks!

  • csrf invalid - socket.io

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    To be honest NodeBB shouldn't require the reverse proxy to pass the protocol in, I will have to take a closer look as to why that is needed.

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    @baris Thanks a lot, it's working now ^_^
    I will wait for the RSS plugin ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Testing Ultrawide Mode

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    seems this distorts the recent card, I have the impression that I cannot widen the reading area without the div where the Recent Card is present ? right @phenomlab ?

  • Session Mismatch errors

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    It finally happened again, Looks like app.user.uid doesn't match the logged in user uid as app.user.id is set to 0 while the uid is 2.
    It all starts working again as soon as I flush the Cloudflare cache.
    Where are the app values gettting set?

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  • Email test ssl error

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    The error mysteriously disappeared and was replaced by an authentication error. I managed to have my Postmark account unlocked (btw, their support team was way much better than that of Sendgird, which still hasn't responded for 2 days since I requested till I am typing right now) and found that to use Postmark in Nodemailer you have to set the server api token as both the username and the password. This is quite counter intuitive, in my opinion.

    And I finally figured out that, the test email button works on your last saved settings, not what you are editing in the input boxes right now.

    So now Postmark is working. Thank God.

  • Generating User Token in v3

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  • How to Expand only one Sidebar?

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    @brazzerstop you can change this line to const sidebarEl = $('.sidebar.sidebar-left');

    That should cause the >> button to only open/close the left sidebar.