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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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    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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    GitHub (github.com)

  • 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
  • New composer

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    julianJ

    (Y) Always open to suggestions! 🙂

  • Tired of upgrading?

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    I upgraded with no problems. 😄

    EDIT: With the exception of having to manually do this commit manually because of merge conflicts: https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/commit/9da165c1a7bb5003796b288e6693a1ba00006cc5#diff-f4a83eb889982b3b3f610f3b8def0442L13

  • How to change body bindings

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    Okay so I wrapped everything in a div with one of my crazy user interface experiments. Everything within the <body> is wrapped in one <div>. Of course, now I am getting an error because like I figured, something is dependent to the body.

    document.body.insertBefore(taskbar.taskbar, footerEl.nextSibling);

    How do I change this to bind to the div instead of the body? I don't want to have the need to create a fragment, that would overcomplicate something simple.

    I could perhaps do much more if I knew how to fix this.

    Uncaught NotFoundError: An attempt was made to reference a Node in a context where it does not exist.

    Now is there anything I might need to change that is dependent on using the body tag like this?

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    Okay good example, I'll see if this works...

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    T

    Thanks! It is the right step toward allowing for images being saved on the server vs imgur. That's why I am using it among other reasons as well. 😛

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    D

    Thanks @julian. I've been using a similar method since the time in which I started this topic. Everything is working great for me now. I just needed some more time to become familiar with the LESS files. Thanks to all for replying!

  • request uri too large

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    I had to do the same on my site via the admin panel and yes, it crashed for some reason. 😞

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    danBBD

    @baris Perfect! Thanks for your help!

  • How to call javascript functions

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    P

    yeah haha. I don't know, I guess templates.js was an adventurous thought of being able to import themes from old school forums.

    Now that I think about it, probably bit off more than we could chew. So yeah definitely open to some sort of abstraction, although I don't imagine that will seriously happen until a lot of interest comes up in the realm of theming NBB

    As for skype wars? this happens everyday, all the time. the winner is usually the one that posts the most convincing meme

    meme

  • Can edit a username value

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    B

    @julian --> http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/9689481.jpg

    @baris awesome thanks!

  • Site title

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    If you can't edit your main post in a topic that is probably a bug.

    I can edit now as the edit option is back 🙂

  • Soft launching the new NodeBB website

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    On iPad I can scroll freely. On desktop with Firefox and Chrome I can't:

    I can only go to specific "screen", not in-between them. Wheel moves with slow transition to the next screen. I can scroll the wheel super fast and it only does one scroll event at a time, so if I wanted to go quickly from top to bottom with wheel I can't do that. I have to wait for the transition. I can't middle click (wheel click) to get into free scrolling mode. There is no scrollbar, only small buttons that I'm supposed to click.

    Every convenient way to scroll the page has been disabled on desktop. JavaScript for the sake of JavaScript.

    Also, iPad seems broken when I go from vertical to horizontal: suddenly I can only scroll from first screen to the fourth one, and back again.

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    julianJ

    Client side you do this

    function() { console.log(test); });

    Server side you do this :

    socket.emit('yourEventName', {data:1}, function() { console.log('server responded'); });
  • Scheduled downtime server migration

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    julianJ

    Except for a minor hiccup with user avatars, the migration seems to be complete. Proceeding with 24h observation.

  • Reply button on google chrome not working

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    julianJ

    (think) http://community.nodebb.org/topic/388/nodebb-v020-released

  • More minimalist header bar

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    @StuartH Thanks stuart.

  • Hrmmm latest version up

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    SteveS

    ... maybe 0.2.0 will drop on xmas day (think)

    I'll wait until tomorrow night then to see if you fellas make a move or not 🙂

    Otherwise I'll move from .1 to master tomorrow.. I don't mind bleeding edge it's more fun that way.

  • In support

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    julianJ

    Yes! https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/tree/master/public/language

  • Imagemagick libhalfsobit is needed

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    RayZhang01R

    you have pretty interesting framework. I am trying it out.

  • Template parsing system help documents

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    caniC

    /nodebb/public/templates/login.tpl @ http://l4fd.info/login.tpl.txt
    /nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-openid-steam/library.js @ http://l4fd.info/library.js

    Can't figure out why {authentication.steam} returns false and <!-- IF authentication.steam --> still outputs anything in it.