@PitaJ I think I have a very edge-case scenario, I've found a solution for guests and logged in users. Thanks for your help and point in the right direction!

I re-wrote the category controller (src > controllers > category.js) to handle passing ?term=x query through and only getting the relevant topics.

Thanks @baris, the latter approach works so I'll go with that

Is there a way to show all the group badges a user belongs to, without them having to select them all from the edit profile page?

Thank you both, this resolved the issue

Definitely would appreciate updates to our documentation so you can help others facing similar problems! Glad you're on your way.

To resolve this, I changed the Proxy module I was using. It uses less code to implement and works with websockets. I think the NodeBB Node.js proxy documentation is out of date so I'll be submitting a PR with the new method I found. Working code is as follows: /** * Proxy forum */ const proxy = require('http-proxy-middleware'); // Forum Proxy app.use( '/forum', proxy({ target: 'http://www.myforum.co.uk/forum', changeOrigin: true, ws: true, }) ); Another potential GOTCHA here is that this Prixy setup needs to be declared ABOVE the 'body-parser' module (if it's being used). The wrong order will prevent post requests from being proxied.

In the end same as https://community.nodebb.org/topic/13472/help-me-on-connect-to-azure-mongodb/4 -> tailing error