I am in beijing, and I can't access nodebb website or community without shadowsocks, I think maybe the China GFW block it. If nodebb need more people to use it. This problem should be solved, maybe build a mirror website?
You can manage the categories permissions throught Administration Control Panel in order to hide it from unregistered users. Maybe theres some more options there.
Bloody hell! I took out the recent replies option on the category causing trouble. I changed it from 2 to 0 and that solved the issue. I was able to activate the category again and everything is back to normal.
I'm guessing the poll was bothering the preview on the homepage.
