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If I change my username after posting a post, the original username is still displayed on Activitypub？

panzz

Note that I said "quoted posts", not "quote posts", don't @ me!

After the last WG meeting @[email protected] @[email protected] and I chatted a bit about how NodeBB handles quoted posts, but also in relation to quote posts. I thought that it was an interesting chat that merited further discussion; also because some of it was over my head.

When asked how NodeBB handles blockquotes specifically, I replied that blockquotes themselves are rather simple. We set a copy of the text wrapped in <blockquote>.

The rationale is simple: forums typically represent content in a linear fashion, and quoted posts are a handy way to reinforce subcontext within a topic. A typical topic/thread could have many separate discussions all happening together (aka thread drift), so quotes help others know what you're responding to. We don't have special handling or references to our blockquotes because there is a history in forums of edited blockquotes.

Perhaps you want to have a block quote and add some emphasis?

It's also better netiquette (god, that term is old) to trim down the quote to only the relevant parts.

Another upside is that a copy-paste of a post preserves that post to history. That can be useful if the quoted user tries to edit their post later, etc.

vis-a-vis the concept of "quote posts", which I take to mean an embedded post within a post, allowing for replies, likes, etc. How that is represented via ActivityPub is probably detailed in some FEP, but NodeBB doesn't implement that yet. It's a more complicated mechanism that requires a lot more thinking through, and to be honest, we haven't had the need for that in the 10+ years we've been building NodeBB.

Quotes should involve resources. With the current citation mechanism, if the user deletes the original post, the quoted content will still exist. The ideal mechanism is that if the user deletes the original post, the quoted content should also be deleted. This is very important for the federation system, so I think the citation system should be upgraded to display the quoted content through pid and forum-fedi.

<baris>

NodeBB works on nodejs 18/20/22 so it's probably not a nodejs version issue.

<baris>

You are still on the root account.

<baris>

I'm not familiar with that error, but you can try a few things.

Don't use root user to run nodebb commands, make sure the nodebb folder is owned by a nonprivileged user. Then run npm install with that user and try running ./nodebb build again.

<baris>

What is the output of ./nodebb plugins? Seems like you don't have nodebb-plugin-composer-default active.

<baris>

nodebb.min.js is generated when you run ./nodebb build in the nodebb folder. Try running it and see if you get any errors. Also make sure you access the forum with the same url used in config.json

<baris>

That setting changes the default for new users, it won't change the settings of existing users. And it will only apply to new notifications.

<baris>

Because you ran the forum without indexes you have documents that violate the index constraints. You will have to remove these documents for the create index command to work.

<baris>

It is already in plugin.json https://github.com/svandecappelle/nodebb-plugin-charts/blob/master/plugin.json#L11-L13 so it should be bundled into nodebb.min.css

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