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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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    shoqS

    I probably compose at least 400 post and chat messages a day on multiple platforms. Speed and simplicity of editing are very important to me.

  • Found a bug? Why not make a bug report here?
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    @solmak

    Thank you for spending time on this, that was fast!

    he is quite speedy :rofl: @baris is known to create a new plugin in 3 minutes of it being discussed in the forum... lol

    Link Preview Image How? · Issue #2 · NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-best-posts

    How did you make a plugin in 3 minutes?

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    GitHub (github.com)

  • Focused discussion related to ActivityPub integration in NodeBB

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    julianJ

    @crazycells labels are to tags as X are to categories?

    It could just be the coloration too... let me just change it to black on white and that may make all the difference.

  • Help Translate NodeBB
  • What happened to search?

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    @aaron

    More on this issue also at http://community.nodebb.org/topic/949/search-why-doesn-t-it-exist.

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  • Is it currently possible disable widgets?

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    Update to latest (87baeebc3f43d4f498dfe08ee488f01eed41c147) and do $.get('/api/categories/1/moderators') 🙂

  • Configuring a reverse-proxy for HTTPS connection

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    julianJ

    @aaron -- to discard all changes on your working copy (again, this discards all changes😞 git reset --hard HEAD

    Then git pull && ./nodebb upgrade

  • env undefine

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    sunqiS

    i find the composer in my website can't suit the screen..
    so i just check out the js code and try to add alert(env) in
    if (percentage) {
    if ( env === 'md' || env === 'lg') {
    postContainer.css('height', Math.floor($(window).height() * percentage) + 'px');
    }
    }
    what i get is undefine. seems that the function findBootstrapEnvironment() doesn't work
    who can tell me what is my lack

  • About administrator and Administrator groups

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    julianJ

    The "administrators" and "Administrators" group both are the same group. In your case, it's supposed to be hidden, but is not. Can you look in your redis and ensure that when you run hgetall gid:1 and hgetall gid:2 (which should correspond to the "Registered Users" group and the "Administrators" group), that hidden is set to 1?

  • Truly private categories

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    julianJ

    Yep, added within the last few weeks.

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    @psychobunny Notifications are still using the old utils.js relativeTime method

  • Need a custom theme or plugin for NodeBB

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    @Giorgio-Chiodi testing notifications

  • Template Conditionals & Variables

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    Woooooooo! Nice @psychobunny Thanks!

  • SweetCaptcha

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    @julian

    The English language is an interesting thing. To quote Winston Churchill, "It is a universal language that divides us all." Who would have thought that skeleton means the same thing as fully-functional. But I'l give that a 👍, never mind what the language means or doesn't mean.

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  • HOW TO keep theme.css being unchanged

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    So, NodeBB uses .less files to maintain the theming for the site, which then is compiled into .css. The public/css/theme.css file is the compilation of the .less files located in node_modules/nodebb-theme-* You will need to edit the .less files instead of directly editing that css file.

    Below are all of the files that should be edited to change the theme.
    Screen Shot 2014-02-17 at 3.15.05 PM.png

    For more information on LESS. http://lesscss.org/

    I hope this helps!

  • how to keep my nodebb online

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    S

    Screen + supervisor is a good combo.

  • Switching to HTTPS

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    julianJ

    A fairly good guide for configuring SSL certificates (Linode)

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    Yup. Check this out. It takes a hell of a lot of time to get used to but with some practice you'll find yourself writing 20 lines of html code in half a second, I'm totally serious.

    Emmet Documentation

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    (docs.emmet.io)

  • Multiple static directories definable per-plugin

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    julianJ

    Okay, no problem. Might even simplify the code a bit to do it this way.

  • warn: [init] Cache buster not set

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    aaronA

    @julian Okay I guess I just shouldn't worry about it. Thanks.

  • MOTD breaking change

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    @baris That fixed it, thanks 🙂

  • i can not install nodebb

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    julianJ

    In that case, install GitHub for windows, Node.js (from website), Redis (from website), and that should be enough... I think...