Active sites using NodeBB

Robert

@baris Will try to send a PR in the next 30 min.

Robert

Pull request made here:
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-english/pull/66

belstgut

why not create configurable heartbeats so you can automatically get a list of running nodebb instances

Admins should be able to opt out though.

Robert

@belstgut I can see people having a issue with that, think of private forums or community's or more NSFW community's.

belstgut

@Kowlin Thats why you should be able to disable it.

Make it an option during installation for example

Robert

But still... Where would you say, "OH! BTW, we will track your installations (by default or whatever) on version X.X".

belstgut

@Kowlin Make it a mandatory config option, so people who want to upgrade would have to manually add the option to the config. (either true or false depending on if they want to promote their forum)

wellenreiter

http://forum.feathercoin.com is using NodeBB

julian

Thanks for the listings guys, although we want to keep all the links on the other thread, so post there instead so @baris can update the list

psychobunny

@belstgut said:

why not create configurable heartbeats so you can automatically get a list of running nodebb instances

Admins should be able to opt out though.

Yeah we thought of this... it does sound like a good plan. It should be opt-in though for privacy issues as aforementioned. Although I think I'd like to ping anonymously for "number of NodeBB installs" regardless, don't know if people would be upset about that. It's a nice stat to put on our homepage

The alternative is pulling # of clones from GH's api.

Henry Wright

@psychobunny # of clones wouldn't be a good figure to use. Take me, I've cloned about 3 times yet have just one live site.

I'd be happy to opt in to install tracking. Really don't see a problem with that

julian

@henrywright said:

I'd be happy to opt in to install tracking. Really don't see a problem with that

I don't think too many people would object, but it's not the tracking that is controversial (although it is, a bit...), but the fact that some companies sneak it in and cover their bases by saying "oh, but it was a checkbox that you accepted", or "it was in the terms and conditions that you totally read, right?)

Henry Wright

@julian Yeah, with something like this it's important to be transparent. I'm guessing any disgruntledness (is that even a word?) will come from people not realising their install is being tracked.

julian

Robert

I... Ehh... Thats one way of doing it I guess xD

Andi

sondorsforum.com is using NodeBB also.

<baris>

I think if we do this, it should be opt-in with a benefit to the user. For example if you decide to enable it your forum gets listed at nodebb.org/directory maybe ranked by activity. There should be some kind of control on how much data you want to send, ranging from just your url to usage stats or just an anonymous using nodebb message.

Arc

@baris said:

I think if we do this, it should be opt-in with a benefit to the user. For example if you decide to enable it your forum gets listed at nodebb.org/directory maybe ranked by activity. There should be some kind of control on how much data you want to send, ranging from just your url to usage stats or just an anonymous using nodebb message.

I like this idea a lot- a list of the most active nodeBB sites would be useful for a lot of people. How could activity be determined though, to avoid bots just posting 1000s of test posts to spam the directory?

Robert

@Arc Simply don't rank them by number of posts. Besides, spam bots are quite easy to see these days.

<baris>

@Arc we track pageviews posts/topic counts etc. Basically the stats you see on the ACP dashboard.