Could that be why email has never worked on my forum?
What do I type to open port 25?

Its quite a task starting up a new forum anyway, and by definition, importing over a different format forum is going to be challenge!
I see the github link says that only works with nodebb version 1.
Is that what you tried, i.e. importing into a very old version of nodebb?
How big is your existing forum (approx number of posts?)

What code are you putting in the Widgets? What do they do?
Widgets will stack unless you put code in to alter that.

The categories page you refer to as example, those are recent posts in boxes that come with that particular theme

Thanks, but I dont get the principle that I need to configure anything if I want to use a subdirectory on my website for something else?
Why is that anything to do with nodebb if I want to use a subdirectory for something not related to nodebb?

@julian said in Using my sites subdirectory while runing Nodebb:

@eeeee How are you serving up the directory, is it in the NodeBB folder?

on server I have a www directory
in there a directory for each of my domains
then I make a subdirectory

So for example mysite2 which doesnt have nodebb on it, I make mysite2.org/extras2 directory and put index.html in there
and browser can find and present that no problem

Just my opinion but I can't see the use of seeing list of things Ive already read, and >99% of people wouldnt use it.
Its better as a plugin (if required), because no point to make Core more complex with rarely (or never) used features.

Any hours spent developing that would be 100x better spent on the 'elephant in the room' email signup issues.

So I have nodebb on my main domain, e.g. mysite.org
I want to put my own html page at mysite.org/extra

But browser says mysite.org/extra cant be reached, even though the subdurectory exists. Something in the nodebb install on main page is blocking it.

What is causing this and how do I get subdirectory usable?

Looking back at the issue I had, and the solution from Julian, this may help

Yes you dont need a database.
Can code a widget to take the inputs, then directly write this info to a post in your 'hidden' category, that only admin can view.
its quite easy to do in javascript

const tid = // hidden topic num
data = // input data

 fetch(`/api/v3/topics/${tid}`, {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: {
         'Content-Type': 'application/json',}
     body: JSON.stringify(data)
     }
  )
    

The only thing I remember having issue with, was the CSRF token ...

Great, the sooner this goes to main branch the better. Admins wont have to activate it but they are more likely to try it at least when its there to switch on.
I jokingly said to @phenomlab (it was 50% joke and 50% serious), my benchmark of when this gets very widespread acceptance is when he gets onboard

I hope @phenomlab doesn't mind me complementing that his sudonix implementation is one of the best instances of nodebb, and his thorough approach would be an asset to the progression.

Ah, I was unsure about the meaning of touch icon. I thought it might have been a mobile option.
I did load a 512x512 png there, but it defaults to the favicon! ?

Also, what does the 'Maskable' icon upload do?

Evan's poll about Activitypub doesn't show on NodeBB instance, why is that?

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/ce910e92-89ab-4762-9562-83dc21741131/every-activitypub-server-should-accept-save-and-forward-all-objects-and-activities-with-types-in-the-activity-vocabulary.

@julian can you see the poll?

Interesting, I can't see the poll. So it seems the platform I am on (nodeBB) is not displaying that. Is the poll an object or activity?

Interesting, thanks. The nodebb Admin panel doesnt currently allow upload of .png for favicon

I had trouble changing the favicon (icon showing the browser tab), was always showing the BB default one.
Its worked now but didnt when I tried to upload a 64x64 ico file.
Are only certain dimensions accepted?

On isurg the install is a week old, so maybe there have been updates since. As mentioned before without a numbering system its hard to know when out of date.
Whats the planned time for releasing v4 in main? I think now, the sooner thats done the better. It wont affect those who dont want to activate it

No, also that account 'Knows no servers again' even though I follow myself here.

Incidentally some world links on here, I may try and follow the user but get this broken link image

HeimFinishSprekenUndwazGud

Test1, mentioning a user at a different nodebb server @[email protected]

Test2 @[email protected]

Edit: connecting between nodebb instances doesnt seem to be working, which is more concerning.
I tried it both ways, mentions from and to there

@julian just to help me test, are usernames case sensitive? I have some capital letters in a username on another nobebb site, do I need to ensure they are in the correct case?