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Hosted NodeBBs now backed up using Tarsnap

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Julian Lam GNU/Linux Admin last edited by
Glad to report that as of today, April 25th, all instances of our Premium Hosted platform benefit from backups stored via the Tarsnap backup service.

Our previous backup solution consisted of local file system backups of each instance's database contents, persisted to the local file system. This had two shortcomings:
- Backups were not hosted off-site (a big no-no! )
- Uploaded files in /public/uploads were not backed up
I'm glad to say that both of these shortcomings have now been addressed. Luckily, we have never had to restore a NodeBB instance from back up, thanks to our reliable hosting from DigitalOcean. Hopefully, we'll never have to

Interested in having us host a NodeBB for you? Check us out at http://nodebb.org!
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Is there a specific reason that letters on the default avatars got smaller in this version (1.13) compared to previous ones?
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@julian @MatthewHawley Not sure if you got this working or not but you need to specify the application you are adding the addon to:
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Hey all: so this is a slightly smarmy, self-serving request but hey, I am the marketing guy.

We are working with the Capterra directory to get some NodeBB reviews posted on their site. They have a program where they will give you a $20 gift card (I think you get a choice of Amazon, Starbucks or pre-paid Visa) if you are one of the first 25 people to click an emailed link and post a review. It doesn't matter if you say nice things or if you bash us, although of course we hope you'll be nice!

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@baris said:

@CaioDA Just disable them from the admin control panel. Options > Disable then Save.

Is it really that simple? Now I'm embarrassed... But, going along with what @planner said and @psychobunny pointed out, this is a very developer centered forum software with an initially steep learning curve. It's not quite plug and play. I recommend something like Foundation's Joyride to introduce new users to the system.

Update: But currently, there is no way to remove them completely (unless a forum restart is required or override them). That's a feature I'd love to see.
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Hi @baris

Thanks for the reply. We're on Redis here instead of Mongo. Sorry, I should have specified.
I did the same thing in Redis, It appears that we had a lot of "blank" notes which were just timestamps - I've removed these (or rather, I converted them over to objects with a timestamp property) and it appears to have resolved this for now.

Not sure going by the timestamps exactly what caused these notes to be added however, but I didn't want to lose the fact that something happened at that point.

Thanks for the guideance