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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:

    IMG_0030.jpg

  • 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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    julianJ

    Please see below for details regarding the first Forasphere/Threadiverse Working Group meeting.

    Following up on the initial announcement post regarding the creation of a working group for threadiverse-type ActivityPub applications, I'm pleased to inform the community-at-large that we have scheduled our first meeting for Thursday, 4 April from 18:00 to 19:00 UTC.

    Thank you @[email protected] for organizing and providing an online meeting space:

    The video-call details are below. The goal of the meeting is to clarify what this group is, what its goals are, and how it will be run. As such, the working agenda is:

    Intro & housekeeping (e.g. consent to record). Who/what we are, nomenclature and overall expectations. Relationship with standards organisations and processes, including Fediverse Developers Network (FediDevs), W3C Social Web Community Group, and FEP process. Organisational, including software (i.e. mailing list), meeting times, facilitation and minutes.

    Topic: Forasphere/Threadiverse Technical Alignment Meeting
    Time: Apr 4, 2024 06:00 PM Universal Time UTC

    Join Zoom Meeting
    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83819428627?pwd=zEE5EQXwPeEjCbqQNyJnaMR21ZMcSe.1

    If you have any suggestions on the agenda please respond to this post.

  • Help Translate NodeBB
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    ShardS

    Any chance in the mean time?

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    Ahh thanks for the clarification, I'll look at what needs to be changed, but I probally leave it alone for compatibility reasons.

  • How hard it is to customize NodeBB?

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    Off the top of my head, I think it's doable with the current hooks available. That said, it would be quite a big plugin. If you want to attempt building it I'll be happy to point you in the right direction if you get stuck.

    Alternatively contact us at [email protected] and maybe we can build that for you 🙂

  • lastpost for widget

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    So i am modifying the nodebb widget essentials and i am editing the categories.tpl and everything works i can get { categories.description } and {categories.name} but now i want to get {categories.posts.content} or {categories.posts.user.username} and it does not work

    I don't understand because u can get the categories name and stuff

    I just want to get the last post in the category

  • nginx reverse proxy not working

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    @a_5mith

    It turned out I was looking at the wrong default file, it's supposed to be in sites-enabled.

    I filled in the missing s, and ran sudo nginx -t and got the following message

    nginx: [warn] conflicting server name "domainname.com" on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored
    nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
    nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

    my site is still not up on the domain

    what is this conflict it's telling me?

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    Edit: Ok, so I've removed all files in sites-enabled and sites-available. Started over. Created a file in sites-available again. Then ln -s it to sites-enabled.

    All [warn] lines disappeared. Configuration of nginx.conf was successful.

    Then I tried sudo service nginx reload. Got the same message: reload: Unknown instance: 😞

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    Edit: I've rebooted my droplet. Reloading nginx was successful. My site is now up on the domain.

    Thanks guys!

  • Stream-style following page

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    Moritz FriedrichM

    @baris said:

    When you follow another user, you get a notification when they post a new topic. Following them also adds them to the contacts list on the /chats page.

    Yep, you are right, my bad. Didn't have these in mind...

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    ludamL

    @baris said:

    ![link text](link-to-image)

    We should add that to the composer toolbar

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    I know they can do it, but I'm sure they won't learn the syntax behind it (I tried before and the solution was to copy and paste the image).

    That's why I wanted a button in the editor where they can put the alt text and the image url.

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    ravenR

    @julian
    I want to register to my nodebb
    How can I use curl to register and can I use send $http post from another website to my nodebb

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    Link Preview Image use replicaset if configured by Icehunter · Pull Request #3091 · NodeBB/NodeBB

    I use a replicaset. Here's a patch to use as well. config.json: { "url": "http://localhost:4567", "secret": "fae93eb7-f17b-429d-a614-4783d8466517", "database": "mongo", "mongo": { "host": "127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1", "port": "27017,27018,27019", "username": "", "password": "", "database": "nodebb" } }

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    Made a pull request for it.

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  • ioredis

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    julianJ

    That's a neat idea... maybe we could use this to support a third db ioredis :trollface:

  • NodeBB v0.7.0-dev

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    ?

    @julian said:

    Right now, it's on the master branch of our GitHub repository 🙂

    Yes! Thanks 🍗

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  • Nginx 1.8.0

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    julianJ

    Heh, and I'm running 1.4 on my local env 😄

    I thought hash load balancing has been in nginx for awhile... hm

  • RSS not showing last posts

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    @Codejet i was referring to the RSS feed of each category 🙂

    thanks @julian and @baris

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    P

    Maybe a plugin to add the field for coin address? I've seen people add them to their sigs as well, but depends on the theme (ie. Persona doesn't utilize sigs but we will plan on making them kind of like a status update in future)

    Cool work BTW 🙂

  • Administrators group title

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    Why can't I pick the title of the default administrators group for display in the user settings page?

    @julian @baris

  • using Jade with NodeBB - mission complete

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    It's exactly how it's working! And you still can render it by name like 'categories' without extension.

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    JenklerJ

    I like the plugin-emailer-amazon plugin 🙂

  • Unicode slugs? Yes please!

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    Looks rad 👍