Who is using NodeBB?
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Very nice. Good content.
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@planner said:
Very nice. Good content.
Thanks! Only been up eight days. Will be at 3,000 posts tonight!
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Did you migrate users from another forum software or is yours a completely new installation?
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I'm impressed! Your forum has been on the radar past few days and its grown very quickly. I guess you had a community going from before?
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Letting you guys know about a new NodeBB forum on the block! It is FPS Talk. It is all about First Person Shooters, and please don't mind our mess, we are still heavily under construction. Please join if you like FPS games or if you are a Gamer, we would love to have you!
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@Hazard said:
Letting you guys know about a new NodeBB forum on the block! It is FPS Talk. It is all about First Person Shooters, and please don't mind our mess, we are still heavily under construction. Please join if you like FPS games or if you are a Gamer, we would love to have you!
The gaming community theme @psychobunny made would be nice for your community.
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@planner said:
Did you migrate users from another forum software or is yours a completely new installation?
Completely new installation.
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@psychobunny said:
I'm impressed! Your forum has been on the radar past few days and its grown very quickly. I guess you had a community going from before?
We did not, but the people participating are escapees from another forum / community that had gone into steep decline. So our uptake rate is really dramatic because of that. So we have a lot of the behaviour of being a new version of an existing forum, but also have the disadvantage of having the large forum in our industry competing for the same mindshare and community members.
Up over 6,000 posts now
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Not at all -- we use redis on this forum, but you do have to realise that the speed of Redis comes at a cost, which is that everything is actively persisted in memory (and on disk, for backup purposes). As long as you have enough memory, you're good to go
We're passively looking into solutions for larger forums on Redis, as there really isn't a pressing need to have a 10 year old topic in active memory. So this will most likely be a non-issue soon.
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@julian said:
@scottalanmiller Are you on Redis or MongoDB? If Redis -- hope you have lots of memory on your server
Oh definitely MongoDB! We ran Redis in a lab which was fine. But we are anticipating the need to scale this to EMEA and the PacRim and needed the scalability of MongoDB
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@planner said:
are you trying to warn the rest of us that Redis is not the best DB to use for very active sites?
We are running at hundreds and closing in on a thousand posts a day and we are only three weeks old and still running "under the radar" so to speak while we get things in order. We are expecting to be scaling towards a million posts a year and geographically dispersed so the need for pretty decent scalability is there.
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We are also running off of RAID 10 SSD to keep the disk access snappy. So we should be pulling over 50K IOPS.
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@julian We are still not capping out our memory but we are keeping a close eye on it. We are trying to keep things as fast as possible.
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We are at 8,400 posts now. Last night we pulled ahead of the NodeBB forums in volume
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Hate to bust your bubble, but I don't place too much stock on the number or volume of posts. On a forum where there's a lot or one-liner posts, it's very easy to push the post count way high. That said, I think it shows that there's a lot of chatter on your forum, so more grease to your elbow.
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@planner said:
Hate to bust your bubble, but I don't place too much stock on the number or volume of posts. On a forum where there's a lot or one-liner posts, it's very easy to push the post count way high. That said, I think it shows that there's a lot of chatter on your forum, so more grease to your elbow.
True, but as a technical community, the posts have a tendency towards having some meat to them.
