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WRT containerization, I honestly really do get the appeal. You can pretend it's all about making your dev environment mimic production, etc... but it all boils down to that "new server feeling", every single time you deploy a container.

Sysadmins used to brag about their uptime records... now it's a soft sign that you might not be keeping up with the latest security patches

Is it worth the overhead? That's up to you... I like tinkering with my servers, personally. Pretty soon it'll be a lost art.

That's awesome @baris I'm assuming backwards compatible with the old method, though that ought to be deprecated?

No knocking the guy when good content presents itself. He's the reason I have dual monitors (not three though), and have a USB drive on my keyring.

That said, the USB drive came from China (hooray Amazon FBA!) and doesn't actually work, but that's a story for another day.

He might also be a major reason I use a mechanical keyboard

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

I was kind of surprised Discourse became so popular, but I guess that's one thing fame will help you with.

I used to read Jeff Atwood's blog, I really liked it back then, and he said a lot of things I agreed (and still do, sometimes) with. He has a huge following and that's what allows him to speak his mind and be heavily opinionated, because lots of people will listen and change their minds. That same audience lends Discourse a whole heap of validity simply because of the name recognition factor, and all the power to them, really! I wish I had that kind of marketing clout, but here at NodeBB, we need to focus on building a superior product instead

We don't really want to have a say in whether one product is better than another. We've stolen good ideas from Discourse and Flarum, and vice versa. It all makes for a better product anyway, doesn't it?

FWIW if I tried to be as opinionated as Mr. Atwood, I'd get flamed incessantly. My average reputation on my HackerNews posts is... 1

We built our DO image on Ubuntu 18.04 with some sane configs and such. There are areas to improve so hopefully as more people use the one-click image, then we'll find out pain points and address.

That said, the image isn't live yet. It's still being verified by the DO crew

Right. Performance could be relative to resource utilisation, however. I know TDWTF had huge troubles with web scraper bots hammering the server to crawl their new content. They even blacklisted a number of user agents for that reason.

Might be the db, or might just be lots of bots crawling the site at any given time

@gotwf said in Mongodb or PostgreSQL? Ah, that is the question...:

Hopefully the daily wtf notice this thread and weighs in w/their $0.02. Pretty please?

@Ben-Lubar from TDWTF built the pgSQL adaptor that NodeBB uses, actually. They're on postgres at the moment.

We only show last day,week, month on the dashboard. I think we should allow a bit more flexibility to see any date range.

In the meantime this will give you the number of posts created between min and max.

db.sortedSetCount('posts:pid', min, max, callback);

Just replace min & max with a unix timestamp in milliseconds.

@Laz Just fyi, topiccount is now available and it's easier to add data see this issue https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7620

barisusakli created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed improve adding new fields to user objects on topic view #7620

@Joykiller Starting with latest master this is much easier now, all you have to do this is use the new hook filter:posts.addUserFields here is a sample.

myPlugin.filterPostsAddUserFields = function (hookData, callback) {
  hookData.fields.push('valueId');
  setImmediate(callback, null, hookData);
};

That is enough to make valueId available to topic.tpl

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7620

barisusakli created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed improve adding new fields to user objects on topic view #7620