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Nothing should be owned by root. NodeBB should not be installed or run as root. You should change all of the permissions with chown -r

I was at one point working on a plugin for customizing translations and templates, I've been meaning to pick it back up and finish it, as it's a useful feature.

I know some forums maintain a single plugin for all of the customizations they need: translations, styles, templates, scripts, etc

The best way is to create a plugin overriding the main translations. You just create a new json file in the plugin languages folder and it will be merged on top of the core translations. This might be helpful:

https://community.nodebb.org/post/44253

You can actually override plugin translations as well as long as your plugins are loaded in the correct order.

Seems the link thats supposed to appear under Plugins in the ACP is not there.

You're probably better off adding a custom class to the navigation item and then using the custom js in the acp for the rest

@faizanzahid the current version of NodeBB still has compatibility with those plugins. Future version will not.

IIRC nginx also handles the 503 page

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Oh you were referring to email verification. Open an issue on GitHub, I think a better feature would be to require email verification before the user can login.