Appreciate all those providing input on this type of layout. It's too bad the site using the grid layout is not using nodebb or else we could probably get the designer to provide some help.
Why the heck do people think NodeBB costs money? - Rant
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I do recall the website being different as well as the paid plans being pushed more when I joined a year ago. But I always knew it was free since even before I joined the community on Nodebb. I think it's more that people didn't do their due diligence research before going around and posting about NodeBB, so they didn't get all their facts straight. NodeBB was doing the same thing other popular forum software was doing when they pushed their own hosting plans. For some reason people still got the facts straight for those scripts (discourse, vanilla, etc).
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Might as well give you guys a sneak preview
http://designcreateplay.com:3000/
The source is public: https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb.org/tree/master/manifest
I don't intend on putting this live until we are close to NodeBB's 1.0x release, which we'll be working on as soon as 0.7 is out
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I have read discussions about NodeBB on The Admin Zone, Discourse forums and all over the web. At this stage of product life cycle you should not be worried about them. You can learn a lot from their comments as many of post authors are experienced forum admins and software developers.
Hard to install? Relative. Around year 2000 we used Ikonboard (Perl) and it was not easy to install nor configure. When you like forum software look and feel plus its features you'll learn fast how to use is no matter how hard it is.
Nothing wrong when you ask about license terms and conditions. If you see an error on Wikipedia or similar websites with content written collaboratively by volunteers just register and change it. I have done this before on Wikipedia and their software Comparisons.
