Not sure if troll or just mad.

Nonetheless, as julian said. First ask for help and then get cocky. But coming here cocky first is definitely the false way.

@electromaster232 looks like a general setup issue to me.
Consider redoing it after my guide:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11032/nodebb-full-stack-setup/

@shinyidol I've read your topic as well. Definitely agree with you.
Its actually sad that even a plain forum as Kunena works more flawless than this.

For me Kunena will the next thing to roll with, especially because of its simplicity, straight forward use, Joomla integration and Tapatalk support. If it won't be any good, I will just convert it to something else. ;)

About Flarum - I check it regularly, but have no real hopes on it. I used esoTalk and FluxBB for testing purposes and both forums were buggy as hell. Not sure if this is anyhow going to change with Flarum.

Thanks @julian.
What you guys are trying to do is definitely amazing and way different from what I have seen so far.

Nonetheless, it would be great if NodeBB could extend to an all in one solution without the need of additional plugins.

But these are just my two cents.

Time to say goodbye-Andrea Bocelli,Sara Brightman - arr. Roberto Molinelli

Ok, after we saw what we were thinking about, its seriously time to say goodbye.
I know that pretty much no one is going to give a damn, however, I still hope that I am able to give some points the devs should think about for the future.

One of the major reasons for me to turn away from NodeBB is the bad plugin eco system, resulting in numerous bugs and a bad usability (stable branch). On my installation not even emojis are working correctly. Browser layout is buggy as hell on Flyme based devices (UI for Android - in my case this is important as my userbase is using to 95% Flyme) and we still got no native ad support.

Actually I feel more comfortable in a SMF, myBB or even Kunena installation than with NodeBB. Why? Because they are designed for maximum functionality (especially SMF/myBB). Things might not look so fancy and are indeed a bit "oldschool", but at least they are working.

If NodeBB wants to continue its growth and become even more popular I'd suggest the following:

1. More functions should be inherited in the core system.
   I am not talking about spectacular things here, rather basic stuff like:

• Spoilers
• Emojis (simple PNG/GIF/JPG upload)
• Awards (Badges/Rank - you get what I mean)

2. Native ad support
   Definitely one of the most important factors when it comes down to large communities.

3. Native mobile app
   From the feedback I've received one thing got clear for me. No one, literally no one wants to use a website on their smartphone for any sort of texting purposes. I mean, why is there demand for stuff like WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messenger, while you could use them as web versions?

I really had in mind to code a native app, however, why bother with the other issues, if I could get a 100% complete solution for little to zero extra cost (10$/mo for dedicated Tapatalk app).

Another thing which surprised me were the "unknown" alternatives.
While I am going to stick with a slightly modified Kunena, I found many other interesting projects.

Especially PHPHub5 blew me away:
https://github.com/summerblue/phphub5

Looks quite like NodeBB - only the composer is a bit too plain. However, for that they have some really pretty and functional apps for mobile end devices:
https://github.com/Aufree/PHPHub-iOS
https://github.com/CycloneAxe/phphub-android

Would have loved adopting it for NodeBB - but thats a different story.

Nonetheless, I would still like to thank everyone and especially the devs for their support.
Good luck with NodeBB's future developement.

@julian

Someone should remove Meizufans from the list.
I am going to close my current NodeBB install and move to a different forum software.
ETA - 12-20 days.

@fish its actually telling you what to run ;)
Nonetheless, thanks for this addition. I added it to the guide.

@JasperNL
CloudFlare is absolutely needless, if you go with OVH/Online.
Especially OVH provides one of the best Anti-DDoS protection free of any charge.
In my almost 5 years being (Alexa <75K), I only suffered a DDoS attack once. Usually attackers want to get the host down, rarely a specific site itself. So better choose a good server provider and you will be fine.

Using CloudFlare as a cache is not always the best thing to do. A lot of my users reported slow loading times, whenever CloudFlare caching was enabled. PageSpeed is the nonplusultra for maximum performance.

About the ports. I agree on that one, almost forgot about it.
However, I clearly advice changing your port number from 22, because the first thing an attacker will do is to check the standard ports for "easy access".

@metasean
Because you maybe want to use WordPress for your articles and NodeBB as a commenting system or whatever else.
This guide targets on setting up a complete stack, which allows you to do pretty much everything.

@meetdilip he knows it very well. Just scroll up a little. Seems someone is back to annoy me. 🙄

@kenygamer Google is your friend. Disabling NGINX error logs is easy. Actually it was in the config I made for you once. Please stop annoying me. Thanks.

@ccob I really don't think that a discussion like this is liked to be seen here.

However, once I have completed switching to the new forum software I will share my experiences to improve NodeBB.

I am simply not happy with the browser compatability and plugin eco system.
Furthermore, I finally found a forum software with a 100% native app for iOS and Android.

Call it personal preference, but I feel somehow better with it.