I have my forum set up in such a way:

• <url>/admin/general/navigation
  • You have to click on all the categories you only want displayed to logged in users
• <url>/admin/manage/categories/
  • You have to go to each category's edit page and turn off all access to guests under the privileges section

@showlink1 There is at least one plugin that is an example of how to censor posts: https://github.com/ninenine/nodebb-plugin-beep

Regular expressions could be used to find offensive words or phrases, but using them wouldn't necessarily be better than a flat list of words to censor. Using regex in practice for this task would actually probably be worse, because of the overhead of having to know how to construct and modify regexes, which can quickly become nontrivial.

...logs?

@baris possibly related:
https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp/issues/153

I couldn't find any output in the logs about the parse error though..

ahaus created this issue in oliver-moran/jimp

open Jimp allocates 200 MB memory on reading a 3.3 MB jpg #153

It was on my forum. Apparently when I upload using the upload image button it fails, but when I uploaded with the upload file it succeeded. I’m guessing there’s some sort of image processing when I use the first one?

I was trying to upload a picture and got an “array buffer allocation failed” and “parse error” on the second try.

You’re gonna have to give a little more information here... what version of Nodebb? Do you have any log output that indicated something was broken?

It’d probably be easier just to copy the whole nodebb folder and database files, because the node_modules folder will contain all of the plugins you’ve installed. If you go with the reinstallation route, you have to:

• note which plugins you had, and make sure they’re installed on the new server.
• copy the configuration file (and make any adjustments if needed)

You should be able to just copy the database files and drop them in the right place, but you also have to make sure that no writes are being made while you’re copying it, and make sure that the new dB is configured the same way. A safer option might be to do a mongodump / restore

There’s a caveat that you have to start on an older version of Nodebb, but:

Edit: looks like it was updated to support a more recent version of NBB

I’m not sure what your use case is, but allowing votes without user id invites fraudulent votes. For example, tracking by IP is easily defeated if someone knows how to use IP address spoofing; also, guests behind a shared IP wouldn’t be able to add more than one vote.