@volanar said in Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?:

@omega and how do you explain this?

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I have been looking at that market dynamic for a while actually, and while I am not discounting your point, there are many reasons why 1/2 are in the top ascendant spot and also they are not necessarily or easily explained by a view that well it's because NodeBB is not as good as these.

You can not discount the existence for a long time of a Digitalocean one-click, very low ethical jump to get a discourse up and running, so the numbers, might be a bit bubbly, how they translate into deep communities, versus a lighter support like presence and interaction, is another story completely.

I am not really to up on docker but I really do not like that extra layer. IT feels like you can barely touch your installation. If you are stuck on a older version, you are also going ot hit real problems with upgrades. So if you are not too technical, you may get hamstrung here very badly.

Upgrading NodeBB is a very lite experience smoother experience IMHO.

The creator of Discourse has a much higher profile due to I guess Stackoverflow, and I'd say a lot of money and marketing has gone in there too or has been available along the way, also I think was at least a year or more ahead in terms of creation and development - not sure if importing existing forums is any easier on discourse or any other new forum platform, but that might be a factor to.

You could ask the same question about xenoforo and it is nothing like Discourse, it is more like NodeBB but really closer to phpBB/VBulletin type platforms, it is very popular but from using a few forums on this I am not too impressed, but it seems to know it's market really well and what it wants and that means a lot in this space.

Nodebb is similar to a classic forum, and the discourse is similar to a support site.

I think that is a very fair and efficient composition of both platforms.

There are problems with the nesting of categories in the discourse. The developers decided...

For me this is the actual issue with Discourse "the developers decided...", there is a bit of that's they way we like it / do it round these parts arrogance baked into the goods - infinite scroll is emblematic of that type decision that is so divisive, you have to realise that thinking is carried forward through all future development - from what I know, it looks like they will never cater to the other side on that issue and I do not know why if it is ego, or they put everything on black and it is technically to difficult to now add a no-infinite scroll option and the subject remains in the "lets not talk about the war" category.

You'll find a few more "decision" easter eggs, that will have you scratching your head. It's not a terrible platform, it's a very good platform, but sometimes, tastes and styles are not always compatible, find what you can live with.

Discourse does seem to have built up a lot of steam in recent years but I still view it as a better fit for a new community, but community is the wrong word, it's missing a lot of the little touches that engender community.

Plus you get to have interesting threads like this here on NodeBB community, I never noticed such stuff on Discourse meta forum, maybe because I'm always trying to fix something technical.

Bump... ?

@jim-bridger I too am making lots of changes in terms of CSS. What I do here is copy and paste to and from a full blown IDE on my desktop. This makes life much easier as it extends capabilities such as search etc.

Is there such a possibility? Can it be developed?

You want to be able to sort them in the post? What's stopping you from rearranging them in the post content?

This has been available in core for a while now. You can set it on the category page.

Hi everyone,
Hi how we can postbit like xf or vbulletin ?

Is it possible to do this?

@הערשלה here is the screenshot for your reference:

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@הערשלה thanks, but I'm not sure that plugin actually works with 1.17

@pitaj If I add 'schedule topics' privilege to a user (or group) they now see every scheduled topic.

As the tool works today it's fine for admin or mod usage, but I'd like to open it up for my whole user base.

We have a lot of long-form blog and how-to type content on our forum and it'd be a great help to users to be able to manage them through scheduled posts like this instead of having to store drafts elsewhere (like word or such).

@venkat have you looked at the session sharing plugin?

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-session-sharing

It provide functions for retrieving the NodeBB id from your id.

Using that plugin is the recommended way of sharing sessions between applications.

Changing the NodeBB id format is a futile effort. You can't just change it to a string. The closest you can do is map your id to the NodeBB id.

@jksh I agree. You could add these yourself to your Forum with editing of the templates/themes, but I'm not very good at that. Maybe change the text with Custom CSS/JS?

@gwen said in Disable Akismet spam check for moderators and admins:

At this time NodeBB blocks all moderators, super moderators and admins to edit a post if a post was flagged as spam by Akismet.

I need a option to disable the spam check for users with moderator rights.

Im affraid it has nothing to do with nodeBB. Try reporting this directly to Akismet.

Hello, I like discourse's achievement system which automatically awards users with points and badges upon completing certain actions. Even just browsing the forum the system awards them.

NodeBB has a plugin similar to this as seen here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4397/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards-ns-awards-give-medals

The problem is the plugin is outdated and no longer works on the latest nodeBB.

I think a feature like this is extremely important for user experience and engagement. When people are awarded for something they tend to repeat the behavior so this will help with user retention.

@julian maybe you have something for hide something text? bcs it Снимок экрана (47).png
doesnt work ,-,
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@sanatisharif someone would need to build a plugin for uploading to minio.io

Maybe to can fork the S3 plugin 🙂

@bugmenot It is an intersting idea.

The initial issue I have is it appears the proposition is swap next page button for top/bottom scroll, which breaks the logic of pagination navigation.

Perhaps another equally noble approach is merely a tweak on the current implementation, that would be to put the pagination nav bar on it's own floating menu that is always on top at the bottom of the screen.

In fact there is a very compelling argument which I have been thinking about a lot the last couple of weeks, that suggestion the bottom of the screen, especially for mobile devices, could be better utilised, rather than clustering everything to the top.

Typically our hand held devices finds more often our hands at the bottom area of the device, not usually the top.

So our fingers are already positional close to that area, meaning single hand operation/interaction with the UI is more comfortable.

Also anytime elements want to push the primary content off-side in real pixel terms or purely visual balance ratios, should be very carefully considered.

@omega Schnay, schnay, schnay, I say. I am all for "bozo filters". Essential component of any IRC client, for e.g., the original social media. Take the lessons learned where you can.

Rock on! 🎸

Yeah need to check the textarea value and make sure it only contains @username and nothing else.