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Hah, already possible to lock your forum down using privileges, and let paying members in

You can control this in the ACP at /admin/settings/general#search-settings [image: 1701269050113-fbe00e01-ad31-4dd0-a81b-56a4889281b1-image.png]

There is no filtering do you mean sorting the replies? It is already available in the sort by dropdown.

Seems like whatsapp prefers to pick a different og:image then linkedin. If you inspect the source of that page you can see all the different og:image tags set. [image: 1701189383104-4403f104-966d-45f9-af1e-9b5159f10f96-image.png] Linked in uses the first one, whatapp seems to pick the last one which is the og:image uploaded in the ACP page. If you want to get rid of some of these on the topic page you can probably use filter:middleware.renderHeader and modify data._header that's passed to the hook.

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… )

I too can offer assistance. See https://sudonix.org

@Sky凌空 You need upload a topic thumbnail to get this preview image [image: 1700644039074-screenshot-2023-11-22-%D0%B2-12.06.39.png]

It will be available in 3.6.0

I propose we classify this traffic as a synthetic-entity traffic, if anyone has a better handle on the correct classification term, speak now.

The categories are added an unread class when they are unread, you can target that class and turn the color back to normal ul.categories-list li.unread .title { color: initial; }

It is fully supported, our tests run on all 3 databases with nodejs 18 and 20. However we suggest using mongodb & redis as that is what we use ourselves and on our hosted clients.

thx guys, it works

@ahmed26 You have to edit the register.tpl file... I think easiest way to do this is using nodebb's own "customize" plugin, however somehow we could not manage to make that plugin work for us, so we have edited the persona theme for changes in topic pages, register page and last post showing categories pages... please check this page from our edited persona theme: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/commit/4db96e38c587ef443b084e6084e4bfa5d2ead98d and add the location, birth date, about sections etc. We have added location since we are using the map plugin to view each user on the map according to their input.

Thank you!

@phenomlab Thanks for help

@omega said in Why should users Self-Moderate?: and you could also be describing the moderation culture over at meta.discourse, but I'm sure you are not in the slightest. I waive all responsibility for what is read in between my lines. Thanks for that. Sounds like they ran the stanford experiment either ignorantly or intentionally using rewards It occurs to me that Stack Overflow may not have been the first. Wikipedia itself has a similar usage of trust levels, with increasing access to mod tools as you contribute more. That said, I have my own reservations about Wikipedia

@omega said in Why Do Users Sign up?: Why do users sign up? Why do users sign up? In my view, and certainly in my case with my forum, users sign up because of the unique content you have on offer. If that is available elsewhere via a simpler mechanism, then they will likely go for that route rather than your site. In the case of my forum, it is offering something unique in the sense that it has facilities such as mentoring, infrastructure help, guidance, etc - admittedly, all of this is available via Stack Overflow, but without the sarcasm, god complexes, and the like. Here's an example of that in process https://sudonix.org/topic/570/issues-with-routing This specific user tried Stack Overflow, and because of the reasons he highlighted above, came to my site and got the assistance he needed.

We have discussed quite a few things which relate to your request in this topic if it interests you https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17524/forum-activities-widget/13?_=1698877185226

@Topper Your commitment to open source and offering a reasonable compensation package is commendable. I hope you find a skilled developer who aligns with your vision.