Please help me, I can't install
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Interesting. I find that on many paid sites, (over all fields), that when a company has your money then they can be unresponsive (at best) and interfering at worse. Its one reason I prefer open source things.
Because its such a big task to continually develop forum software, Im kind of impressed that Xenforo have done so well on features (like you describe). Because although they have money coming in, they must limit their development to inhouse contributions only.
I also think less is more sometimes, any extra features need more maintenance, and can introduce more bugs..
so I feel additional features have to be useful to say more than 10% of users, to be worth the overhead to have.When Nodebb v4 has ActivityPub then this (to me) will be a big bonus over other forums. Do you think Xenforo will implement this?
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@eeeee said in Please help me, I can't install:
When v4 has Activitypub then this (to me) will be a big bonus over other forums. Do you think Xenforo will implement this?
There have been requests for the revamping of their "Whats New" function for several years. The "What's New" function on XF is sorely dated.
Strangely, for some reason the XF developers seem to be stuck in a mid early 2010 design rut. Some of the stuff may require them to increase their minimum PHP version limits - but that is not something they want to do as it might drive off a noticeable segment of their license holders that are still using legacy shared hosting providers that still are not offering the newer versions of PHP. So instead of just putting their foot down and saying that the minimum will be 8.x, they work around the issues of having to keep backwards compatibility, frequently at the cost of the ability to move forward.The problem with XF (and what caused some of to be in some hot water from complaining about it) was that for the past several years they made very few QOL improvements (those that benefit the end user) and concentrated on making it easier on the Admins and developers. Granted, that is important, but it's not the admins and developers that keep a site alive, it's those end users that QOL improvements can make happy.
Im kind of impressed that Xenforo have done so well on features (like you describe)
Several of those features are not Xenforo offered. They come from 3rd party developers and are paid. One of the things you will see XF admins hoot about is the cost being only $195 compared to $499 for Invision. The thing they sadly forget is for that $195 you are only getting a forum. For that $499 from Invision you are getting an entire suite, including Pages which is a fantastic add-on.
My site cost me almost $1000 just in software purchase cost to get to where it is and runs about $400 a year to keep the licenses active.One of the things that surprises me about NodeBB is how nice it is, especially for the "cost".
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@Tracy Here's how to send a message to you
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@Tracy I can't see your private chats.
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You should be able to click on the speech bubble on the right side of the screen (if on desktop, don't know where on mobile) to see it.
As I mentioned in the chat, I'm off to bed again so need to figure out a time that we can get into chat and set it up as it does not need to be done in this area. I am in the US (Texas Central time) and will probably be back up around 3PM-4PM today. -
Do you have a discord, we discord private message
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Yeah... astro_what_04309
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@Tracy Do you have a discord, we discord private message, here it shows that I don't have permission to view your messages.
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I think it's actually astro_what_forum
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@phenomlab said in Please help me, I can't install:
@abcabc123 https://sudonix.org/topic/693/please-help-me-i-can-t-install-nodebb
They are getting help, but if they want to go there that will work also. I'm about to head off to bed after dealing with it for a few hours already and getting slow responses.
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@Tracy yes, I too have seen similar over on Sudonix. I've put myself forward but yet to have any response.
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@phenomlab said in Please help me, I can't install:
@Tracy yes, I too have seen similar over on Sudonix. I've put myself forward but yet to have any response.
Just so you know if you do start helping, the upgrade to 24.04LTS was ran and now the system is non-responsive for remote access. Trying to either get the user to provide the web console access to their VPS or have them resolve that issue themselves and no luck so far.
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@Tracy I'm in contact the site owner and have login details as root.
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@phenomlab said in Please help me, I can't install:
@Tracy I'm in contact the site owner and have login details as root.
He gave those to me also. But when trying to connect to the IP he provided via SSH it did not connect (times out). It did before processing the 24.04LTS upgrade.
Doing a ping of the site results:
PING <IP removed for security> (<IP REMOVED>): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5So for some reason from my location it does not connect to it.
With 22.04LTS it was giving a MongoDB dependency warning, and I'm not that familiar with MongDB (usually use mySQL or postgreSQL).
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@Tracy could well be behind a firewall or iptables.
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@phenomlab said in Please help me, I can't install:
@Tracy could well be behind a firewall or iptables.
yeah, and without the panel (web) access (which I never could get) there is nothing I could do.
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@Tracy probably the same with me then as I can't ping it either. I know the user is in Asia.
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Yeah, just getting access to the web console of the VPS controls and using their console to try to connect would help resolve the issues. It's not like I'm new to Linux. Been running it since Slackware came out on 3.5" disks.
