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  • Posts from the NodeBB Development Blog
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    julianJ

    Occasionally, we will get asked whether there are any differences between our hosted service and the open source project.

    It is as though we are holding back some great features and only allowing our paying customers access them! Conversely, it could be assumed that because we are hosting the software for others, that we would somehow out of self-interest or for economic reasons, deliver an inferior version with limitations.

    I'd like to say upfront that this is not the case for NodeBB.

    When you use our hosted service, you receive the same great NodeBB software that you can get for free off of our GitHub repository.

    What we're selling is support, maintenance, upgrades, and peace of mind delivered by our world-class† support team.

    You definitely can host NodeBB on your own! We've strived for years to deliver a piece of software that runs lean and fast on minimal hardware, great docs (some contributed by other admins!) that help you get up to speed quickly, and a fantastic community that will help you if you get stuck.

    The reason I take this principled stand is simple — I think it's unfair when artificial limitations are placed on software just for the purpose of getting customers to pay more.

    We've seen all this time and time again:

    You can't install any plugin you want, just a select few from a small list You can only have X units (tickets, posts, etc) of whatever you're using You can only have X admins/owners You can't see any messages older than X days

    These limitations are all artificial, and serve to restrict the use of something to the bare minimum. Anything extra is — of course — available for the right price.

    We don't do that. We tell everybody that NodeBB is powerful enough to run huge communities, and we stand by it. We tell everybody that NodeBB is flexible enough to look and function however you want, and we stand by it.

    These are the real limitations we impose on our hosting service:

    Hard drive space for uploads are imposed by our upstream provider and are set, though we are happy to add additional drive volumes for a fee) We have soft "pageview" limits that any user on our hosting can exceed (in fact, many do). We set them purely as a benchmark for the point at which your NodeBB may slow down depending on the type of load that you get, and encourage dialogue to make sure that you're on the right plan (server resources, etc.) We do not allow shell access for security reasons (and if you needed it, you probably could self-host)

    So please do rest assured when I and others tell you that what you see is what you get. No more, no less. I'd rather everybody get to use the best of NodeBB, instead of serving a special feature-reduced version for others.

    † I'm going to go out on limb here and say that we're probably the most qualified people to maintain NodeBB. Feel free to disagree 😉

  • You have a cool idea about NodeBB? Post it here.

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    crazycellsC

    when the forum is used as PWA, there is no easy way to navigate between pages...

    Yesterday, I was reading a post on the forum that mentioned another topic, I have encountered an issue when attempting to return to the original post. So, after reading the linked topic, I had to go to categories page and retrace my steps to locate the topic I was reading initially...

    Although this can be achieved by page control arrows on destop and mobile browsers, there is no easy way to achieve this on PWA... so I propose adding some page control buttons that appear at the bottom of the page when scrolled up. (maybe it can be integrated to post navigation bar but I believe those buttons should appear in all pages, not only in topics)

    Here is just a suggestion to distinguish them from other arrows...

    IMG_0029 copy.jpeg

    alternatively the arrows or rewind icons that YouTube uses can be used:

    IMG_0030.jpg

  • Found a bug? Why not make a bug report here?
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    barisB

    Interesting bug, does it work in other browsers other than firefox?

  • Focused discussion related to ActivityPub integration in NodeBB

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    @[email protected] @[email protected]

    Using zoom
    Disgusting. There's so many free and open source alternatives available to discuss platforms built on free and open source software, and you choose the absolute worst proprietary option imaginable.

  • Help Translate NodeBB
  • translation for "post quick reply"

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    crazycellsC

    @PitaJ @kurulumu-Net Yes, all should be translated in the Turkish version...

    I have made some recent changes in the past weeks, and since we have recently upgraded our forum, I will go over some of the translations again soon on transifex after seeing the context in the forum...

    @kurulumu-Net please let me know if you see any incomplete or funky translation... it is usually hard to translate long sentences perfectly in the first trial since Turkish and English are just opposite of each other.

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  • New theme for this forum

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    Nice! It's been smooth and haven't run into anything major. Don't know if it's because of this change, but the read and write API links work now 😃

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    @julian yup, was thinking of the builder + all the custom build tasks. It may not seem broken if you have experience with it and used it for so long. But it can be discouraging for anyone new that wants to help contribute, not just code, but architecture, CI..etc. Since it's being worked on for v2, not going into the why I think it should go in that direction 😛

    Where are y'all posting updates for v2? I checked the repo projects tab + road map (last update in 2018, probably deprecated)

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    barisB

    Also https://docs.nodebb.org/, I added a link to it in the nav bar as well

  • NodeBB v1.18.5 released.

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    We have released NodeBB v1.18.5. This release contains important security fixes.

    Upgrading is strongly advised.

    Please check our GitHub for details.

    A special thank you goes out to SonarSource for their contributions to this release and their detailed findings! To read more on this, please check out their blog post.

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    @julian thank you for your answare, it's also gonna help me. but i meand in my question to docs about the modules. for example, i'll use the composer module:

    require(['composer/formatting'], function (f) { });

    or the topics module:

    require(['forum/topic'], function (t) { });

    and i want to learn their methods and properties.

  • 1.18.0 Breaking Changes

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    barisB

    plugins.registerHook removed, use plugins.hooks.register
    plugins.unregisterHook removed, use plugins.hooks.unregister
    plugins.fireHook removed, use plugins.hooks.fire
    plugins.hasListeners removed, used plugins.hooks.hasListeners

    Link Preview Image fix: push back some deprecations, remove deprecated stuff scheduled f… · NodeBB/NodeBB@dd4e66e

    Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - fix: push back some deprecations, remove deprecated stuff scheduled f… · NodeBB/NodeBB@dd4e66e

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    GitHub (github.com)

  • html editor for the footer

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    phenomlabP

    @ᴅᴀʀᴛʜ-ᴠᴀᴅᴇʀ You'll need to do that with custom CSS. If you give me the URL to your site, I can make some suggestions - either here, or via PM is fine

  • content security policy

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    @julian Any updates on nodebb's CSP implementation? I'd like to avoid unsafe-* for obvious reasons.

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    @julian Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

  • A post showing a grid?

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    crazycellsC

    @nodeham said in A post showing a grid?:

    @pitaj Yes, like a table is exactly what I need.
    No kidding, it's that simple? Amazing.

    Thank you!

    You can use this template:

    https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables

    Markdown automatically converts those codes into a table.

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    Hi folks,

    I want to validate ( need to make email confirmed property true) user under filter:register.shouldQueue filter. Is any way to do this ?

    Feedback appreciated
    Thanks

  • NodeBB 1.18.0 docker update

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    julianJ

    @maxwaldorf I just deleted the 1.18.2 tag from Docker Hub -- I most likely won't regenerate the image. v1.18.3 will be the next release with a Docker image.

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    Hi Community Folks,

    I have a scenario in which I have to pass some custom data based on user's properties to welcome email template in nodebb. How can I achieve this ?

    Feedback appreciated
    Thanks

  • How to get list of users in custom plugin ?

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    Hi folks,

    I am creating a custom plugin in nodebb and I want to fetch a list of all authentic and confirmed users over there.

    Feedback appreciated
    Thanks

  • Condition based Admin Approval

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    @baris Thanks I will try this solution. Always helpful.

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    @pitaj @gasoved Resolve my issues .. Thank you for your feedback.

  • Auto Badge Gamificatioin required in nodebb.

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    volanarV

    @rajeev2189 https://github.com/NicolasSiver/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards

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    vinuV

    @volanar Thans for the suggestion. After switching to Postgres we are still not getting the better troughput than redis.

    @julian Is it possibl to share the any benchmark results of MongoDB.

    The only option we have now to go with redis(RDB + AOF) with the above results shared by @venkat123 here
    https://community.nodebb.org/post/84368

    Any suggestions on MongoDB, Redis or Postgress config setting to get better performance.

  • Shared ESlint config

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    barisB

    This is now available, sample implementation for a plugin https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-friends/commit/6e6f2f45b1ebf42cb1d688070c777a02eda1fd4a.

    Thanks @Antosik