What BB did you use before NodeBB?
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10 years on phpbb myself, mainly developing an RPG mod for it called ADR (You ask, RPG's on a forum? -- if you've been with phpbb2 for a while you may have heard of ADR, Cash Mod, Zarath/Moogie's rpgs, and/or nulavatar, the best example being Gaia Online, if you haven't then maybe you've seen forums before with cash/xp/level shown underneath a customizable avatar before at the very least)
there have been some unsuccessful attempts at porting or trying what we did on IPB and VB although I can't remember their names off by hand.
battling other forum users is the ultimate form of gamification imo and ADR et al. took it to the next level. I really really really can't wait till I get the free time to try something like that on nodebb
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I can't wait to see what you have planned for that @psychobunny
Well I've tried almost every BB there is, even ones you've probably never heard of. All experimenting mostly on the design aspect of the forums.
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Well here's a breakdown example on the themes and the platform used for them.
##IP.Board
##esoTalk
##Discourse
##NodeBB (currently)
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am I biased or does your NodeBB theme look the best
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Haha, I really love it a lot too. @psychobunny
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btw, I really like that "login to get started" arrow you did. could totally be a simple plugin for NodeBB imo
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I am currently using vanilla forums. Unfortunately the community seems dead aside from a few security updates that are released once in a while.
I actually had an idea to start creating a forum based on node.js, but then I found you guys! -
@trevor For some reason, your IP.Board theme got me feeling nostalgic (don't quite know why)
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Hahah, that nostalgia is why we came back to forums in the first place @CaioDA... forums were a part of our youth, and we just don't want to give them up
@bdharrington7 Glad you found us -- I'm sure we'd rather not have a competing Node.js forum product
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@trevor Now that you mention the design aspect, I've realized that every "modern" forum software has a distinct design that you can notice almost immediately. The one that is the least distinctive in my opinion is NodeBB, and even then, you know when a forum is running it.
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@psychobunny said:
10 years on phpbb myself, mainly developing an RPG mod for it called ADR (You ask, RPG's on a forum? -- if you've been with phpbb2 for a while you may have heard of ADR, Cash Mod, Zarath/Moogie's rpgs, and/or nulavatar, the best example being Gaia Online, if you haven't then maybe you've seen forums before with cash/xp/level shown underneath a customizable avatar before at the very least)
there have been some unsuccessful attempts at porting or trying what we did on IPB and VB although I can't remember their names off by hand.
battling other forum users is the ultimate form of gamification imo and ADR et al. took it to the next level. I really really really can't wait till I get the free time to try something like that on nodebb
You know this is the kind of stuff a big company like zappos would use to get their employees to work harder. Completing real work to level up game stats. Thats the future. How do you expect this new generation of gamers to work for ten minutes? Make work part of the game.
Off topic but just had to put it out there.
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@CaioDA said:
@trevor Now that you mention the design aspect, I've realized that every "modern" forum software has a distinct design that you can notice almost immediately. The one that is the least distinctive in my opinion is NodeBB, and even then, you know when a forum is running it.
I agree.
And you know what, out of every one of them I've used, NodeBB seems to be the easiest IMO. We need more designers... I'm just saying.
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@trevor Completely agree. NodeBB has one of the most straight-forward plugin (haven't checked themes yet) architectures I've ever seen. I'm rather new to Javascript and I can get rather far with my limited knowledge.
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UBB - ugh
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Glad to hear you guys appreciate the theme and plugin frameworks. If there's anything you think needs improving we're right here for ya, voluntolding @julian to take care of this for you. XD
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@trevor just curious, how was theming with discourse? they are technically speaking our "web 2.0" competitors although I see them more of like some kind of discussion software and not really an actual forum. if there's anything you liked from their setup that you think could be implemented here I'd be happy to try and figure that out
