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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...

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

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

    @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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  • Focused discussion related to ActivityPub integration in NodeBB

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    @angusmcleod
    I am excited for it and what we can accomplish this year. Thanks for initiating this 😊👍

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  • NodeBB 3.7.1

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    crazycellsC

    @baris thank you 👍 it works

  • NodeBB receives NLNet NGI0 Core Grant

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    julianJ

    Thanks @Angus-McLeod! Will you be at this week's FediForum? We could chat then.

    Might be a good idea to touch base about any potential link ups especially when we're talking about testing in-development code and public facing instances 😅

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    barisB

    The above code is for a server side function that renders a feed template. It is meant to be used in a nodebb plugin.

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    @julian @Totally with Ю :questified: Also because there's the difference between conversation-oriented projects (Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), the Threadiverse, nodeBB) and Twitter-like micro-blogging projects that don't have a concept of conversations.

    The former are built around being able to follow conversations, the latter lack that feature completely.

    #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta
  • NodeBB 3.7.0

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    crazycellsC

    great job! thank you 💪

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  • NodeBB 3.6.0

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    barisB

    @crazycells drag and drop on mobile is ♋

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    julianJ

    @The-SkyFoxx said in January Update on ActivityPub Development:

    I guess a plugin with the filter hook would allow admins to filter /world by hashtags, if they feel the need to.

    Practically it may be a little more involved, but I think we'd end up with something along those lines.

    There aren't any plugin hooks exposed in the AP logic at present but they can always be added as needed.

  • NodeBB 3.6.0 minimum NodeJS version.

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    barisB

    Will downgrade sharp to 0.32.6 and release a new patch version since we received other reports of the sharp error.

  • NodeBB 3.5.0

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    julianJ

    @crazycells sure, if you're paying them, then the base expectation is they don't delete your stuff with no warning 😁

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    Any, even small, corrections and adjustments in markup for SEO are an important part in the life of any community! I’m very glad that the development team is following current changes in this environment!

    Thank you! 💙

  • What's next after v3?

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    crazycellsC

    @julian said in What's next after v3?:

    @crazycells wait until TD decides to start sending SMS codes to your phone number.

    I use a VoIP number, I'll let you guess how that's going.

    Also... You're Canadian? 😅

    lol I can feel your pain. There are TD Bank branches in NY. However due to their lack of convenience, I had to close my checking account with them, but I still have a credit card.

    On a side note, I always use my real phone number with financial institutions, but use Google Voice number for anything else. Aren't VOIP numbers easier to hack?

  • NodeBB 3.4.0

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    omegaO

    @baris I suppose this is it, in profile setting these were not ticked:

    Watch Watch topics you create Watch topics that you reply to

    I've since enabled these - they appear to be the behaviour I assumed would occur - surely something like this would be default user settings?

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    omegaO

    I've opened up this can o'worms again, click below! 🙂

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    The Fruit Machine I call it the fruit machine, it's a conceptual iteration of the timeline navigator I came up with during harmony themes development and re...

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  • Standardised language keys

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    barisB

    @brazzerstop Thanks for reporting fixed in https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/bda37ac27f11ba5dfba4e78d08144c1031696f61

  • Security Vulnerability Notifications

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    julianJ

    Additionally, a note about how our disclosures are reported.

    As outlined in our security policy, we maintain a bug bounty program. We use this as a central point of contact for reported vulnerabilities so that they do not get unintentionally exposed for exploit, and to keep better track of them over time.

    👉 BUG BOUNTY HOMEPAGE/RULES

    Included in that bug bounty page is a Hall of Fame, a list of users who have claimed credit for discovering bugs. It also provides a rough history of awarded bounties and vulnerabilities as well.

  • NodeBB 3.3.0

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    inspiringI

    Now we have special settings for the notification of each chat, can you provide this feature for groups as well? that each user can set himself which group he is a member of to receive notifications?

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    FrankMF

    I somehow got it to v3.3.5 now. Please do not ask how 😉 I'm thinking about reinstalling to start cleanly.

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    julianJ

    Lastly, keep in mind that sso-oauth is not deprecated, and will still be maintained. It's still a reference implementation for OAuth2 providers that follow the standard loosely. Also it happens to be the only OAuth 1 reference implementation.

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    phenomlabP

    @tankerkiller125 I too opt for /recent as I prefer to see all activity rather than categories

  • Introducing public group chats

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    @baris 👏 👏 👏 🔥