@bri said in Okay this is ridiculous:

@apple-pro wow man, talk about a rage quit.

You literally started posting four days ago. That is not nearly enough time to get any meaningful help.

Software development and support can be slow (unless you’re paying for it). It’s a fact of life.

Admittedly, the learning curve is on the high side compared to other software, but no one got better at life by doing only the easy things. That’s how you learn.

The tutorials are not hard to follow, but there is some basic developer knowledge you’d need to know, all of which is very easy to Google.

Hope you fare better in future endeavors

More than 4 days just for support!?!?!? That’s ridiculous to be honest! I’ve seen many other services/softwares that are FREE, and you get support in a matter of hours if not minutes. And you don’t even pay a dime.

@a632079 said in Okay this is ridiculous:

@jenkler said in Okay this is ridiculous:

Here are some tips!

• Don't use the latest branch if you want something stable!
• Setup a dev and try the updates before production use.
• NodeBB is free and Opensource. You can't simply complain on the support for something that is free man.
• Learn nodejs and try to help out. There are a lot of things that we need help with.
• If you need help and require support there is a simple way. Just pay for support. We have a lot of people here that are willing to help out for a small fee. (Me included, mostly have swedish customers but an exception can be made)

I agree with your point of view. Time is priceless, it is impossible to spend 24 hours to help others free of charge.

No one asked you to spend 24 hours providing support.... a few minutes every now and then could really help people out.

@jenkler said in Okay this is ridiculous:

Here are some tips!

• Don't use the latest branch if you want something stable!
• Setup a dev and try the updates before production use.
• NodeBB is free and Opensource. You can't simply complain on the support for something that is free man.
• Learn nodejs and try to help out. There are a lot of things that we need help with.
• If you need help and require support there is a simple way. Just pay for support. We have a lot of people here that are willing to help out for a small fee. (Me included, mostly have swedish customers but an exception can be made)

I never used the latest branch, I never used nodebb for production.... and i can in fact complain about something that’s free. It’s your product and it’s your responsibility to make sure the people that use the product are not experiencing any issues or bugs with it. It is not my fault that nodebb and it’s support us free, if you were going to just keep asking people for money for something that would take you minutes to help out with, then you may as well make the entire software paid. It’s very selfish of you to keep asking for money for just something as simple as providing support, it’s like the user will keep paying nodebb money for nodebb’s own issues... see? It doesn’t make sense!

@julian said in Okay this is ridiculous:

It's unfortunate you decided not to continue with NodeBB. However your expectation of immediate assistance (on a weekend, no doubt) needs to be checked.

I was NOT expecting immediate support. I was discouraged due to a person having the same issue as mine and NO ONE, I mean literally NO ONE, replied to his post even tho it was posted more than 2 weeks ago. So please stop assuming things

So i decide to use nodebb, and the installation instructions were extremely confusing and not very organized.... There are tons of errors throughout the process and you don't even mention the need of a web server such as nginx....

And when i finally got nodebb to work, which was a nightmare to accomplish, it literally breaks in a matter of minutes of my jusy doing some basic things in the admin dashboard

Nodebb seriously has the worst mobile/tablet optimization i have ever seen in years, half of it's admin control panel features break it, and it's ridiculously hard to fix an issue with it as debugging is extremely hard.

Even the support is terrible, the people here don't seem to know what they're talking about, the forum here is very inactive with hardly any people on and getting proper support is almost impossible. A guy had the same issue as mine, and it's been 14 days since he created his thread and still not a single reply!!!! And the amount of times people keep throwing their digital ocean referral links in threads is just ridiculous.

Nodebb, get your stuff together.... You have just lost a user

(I don't care if this sounds rude to anyone or if you don't like what you just read, this is the reality and you'll have to accept it.)

Bye.

Ok so i bypassed systemd and just ran ./nodebb start and the forum worked..... But as soon as I restarted nodebb from the admin dashboard, i kept getting this when visiting the forum:

Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/var/www/vexforum.gq/build/public/templates"
at EventEmitter.render (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17)
at ServerResponse.render (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:971:7)
at content (/var/www/vexforum.gq/src/middleware/render.js:82:15)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3830:24
at replenish (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:946:17)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:950:9
at eachOfLimit (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:975:24)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:980:16
at eachOf (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1051:5)
at _parallel (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3829:5)
at Object.parallelLimit [as parallel] (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3912:5)
at async.waterfall.str (/var/www/vexforum.gq/src/middleware/render.js:77:12)
at nextTask (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5273:14)
at next (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5280:9)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:906:16
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:421:16

@julian maybe you would know what's wrong?

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

@apple-pro cd to your nodebb directory and try ./nodebb log
If you did't see any errors be throwed, you just have already started it .

tail: cannot open './logs/output.log' for reading: No such file or directory

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

It's works now ? Have you tried visit your url?

Ok when i visit the url, i get the 502 bad gateway error which shows that nodebb is indeed not running.

I think there's something wrong in my nodebb.service file, can you please send me what should be in there

like this

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

It's works now ? Have you tried visit your url?

I cant at the moment since I didn't add the nginx config file for nodebb (which could be a bit challenging since im not that experienced with such things)

I will give it a try though

So im following the nodebb installation for ubuntu step by step and when i reached to the step where you start the nodebb service, i first ran sudo service nodebb start and received no errors whatsoever. But when i ran sudo service nodebb status

This is what i got:

Any idea on what's going on?

@PitaJ said in State of available plugins:

@Apple-Pro disable all plugins with

./nodebb reset

Or just one specific one with

./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin-im-broken"

And then you can remove them completely if you choose.

Thanks

@pichalite said in How to cover the original domain with a different one?:

@Apple-Pro said in How to cover the original domain with a different one?:

I managed to do it for free using cloud 9

Sure if the time you spent setting it up is worth nothing.

Just an FYI if you didn't know it already, those free cloud 9 workspaces go in to hibernate mode after few hours of inactivity in the IDE. So, your installation will not be accessible after that.

I can easily restart it.....it's actually worth being for free

@PitaJ said in How to cover the original domain with a different one?:

In Nginx, you would just write the same rules for both subdomains.

I use cloud9

Also just for the records, i am pretty new to these stuff so I didn't really understand what you meant.

@PitaJ said in State of available plugins:

As with any open system, some projects will be abandoned due to lack of interest of available free time from the developer in charge. If you see a plugin that doesn't appear to have recent activity and which doesn't work on newer versions of NodeBB, then most likely it is abandoned. The only way to find out if a plugin works is to test it yourself at this point, though I believe a thing is planned that will automatically check plugins for failures to run for each new release of NodeBB, and would notify the respective maintainer(s) of that incompatibility.

Lets say an old plugin crashes nodebb ... How do we manually uninstall that plugin?

Hey

So i seen people have a certain domain for their sites (in this case nodebb) but they cover it with another domain....for example lets say the original domain of a nodebb forum is example.nodebb.org but you make another domain community.nodebb.org how do u make it stay as community.nodebb.org in the browser without it redirecting to the original domain? In this case, i wanna use dot.tk.

Also a quick reply to @julian in my previous topic https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9361/i-need-someone-to-setup-nodebb-for-me/11 (i can't reply to him there as it got locked)

I managed to do it for free using cloud 9

Just to add on to this tutorial, you now need to install mongodb manually....just run sudo apt-get -y mongodb-org before running ./mongod &

@nhl.pl said in I need someone to setup nodebb for me:

Have you tried this guide?
https://github.com/ahwayakchih/openshift-nodebb

Yes but i didn't understand anything.....can you set it up for me please?

@Jenkler said in I need someone to setup nodebb for me:

Wonder if there is Free hosting for nodejs and mongodb

There is ...... Openshift is free but i just dont know how to install nodebb in it

Just to add on, openshift and heroku seem to be a freehost