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Here's a script you can use to change the status of all users:

'use strict';

var nconf = require('nconf');
var async = require('async');

nconf.file({
	file: 'config.json',
});

nconf.defaults({
	base_dir: __dirname,
	views_dir: './build/public/templates',
});

var db = require('./src/database');

async.series([
	db.init,
	setUsersOnline,
], (err) => {
	if (err) {
		console.error(err);
		process.exit(1);
	}

	process.exit();
});

function setUsersOnline(callback) {
	var batch = require('./src/batch');
	batch.processSortedSet('users:joindate', function (uids, next) {
		const lastonline = Date.now();
		const data = {
			lastonline,
			status: 'online',
		};
		async.parallel([
			cb => async.each(uids, (uid, next) => {
				db.setObject(`user:${uid}`, data, next);
			}, cb),
			cb => db.sortedSetAdd('users:online', uids.map(() => lastonline), uids, cb),
		], next);
	}, callback);
}

Create a new file called set-users-online.js in your main nodebb directory (the one with config.js etc), paste that script into it, and run node set-users-online from within that directory to set all of your users to online.

However, I'm not sure why your default for status would be Invisible in the first place. As far as I can tell, it's Online by default. You mentioned it's every user, how did you confirm that?

As far as front end goes, there's a good amount of theme changes you can make without breaking things. All of the interaction can be done through the API and sockets, so it's also possible to completely replace the front end.

You need to add your child theme under dependencies in package.json

@JavadocMD I believe that is doable, yes. Please contact us at sales@nodebb.org and reference this topic in your message

What kind of skin? Like a dark mode?

Should be fixed in 1.0.2 of this plugin

The upgrade should have run ./nodebb build for you, perhaps it needs to be run again shrug

If you rebuild NodeBB assets, it should regenerate the cache buster and cause all clients to reload the assets (as the cache-busting query-string will have changed)

Yes, you can cherry-pick this sha to get it into your NodeBB

Edit: You just happened to catch me online at the same time, hah. The flag issue is also resolved from a couple days ago, so it wasn't done just now

Please see https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11181/how-to-customize-the-url-would-prefer-shorter-url/ as to why it is difficult

Edit: Oh, I don't really go into detail there -- but nevertheless, slugs aren't unique, so you can have two topics named the same thing. Therefore you need the topid ID to find the topic.