Thanks for your replies everyone

After several years of using NodeBB my community has grown to the point where we need to migrate to a proprietary system (also due to company policy).
As part of the migration process i need to bring users (6000+) and their passwords into the new database.
I understand that passwords are stored as hashes in the nodebb mongodb database; is there a way of extracting them to the new database so that all my users don’t have to reset their passwords?

I’ve no interest in finding out my users passwords per se, i just want to make the transition as seamless as possible for them.

Thanks.

I've some overzealous moderators who like to ban people for trivial things.

Can I stop moderators from being able to ban users?

Also, is there are a way to let these moderators put users on a timed suspension instead? Or something like that...

success!
thanks

Hi,

I've been trying to run an upgrade from 1.14.3 to 1.16.1 however the upgrade is failing at the "Create fullname search set" stage.

The error reads:

→ [2020/9/11] Create fullname search set...
    [##           ] (1000/4613) 21% Error occurred
Error occurred during upgrade: TypeError: u.fullname.substr is not a function
    at userData.filter.map.u (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:49)
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at batch.processSortedSet.batch (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:6)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
2021-01-17T14:26:01.301Z [4567/27161] - error: uncaughtException: u.fullname.substr is not a function
TypeError: u.fullname.substr is not a function
    at userData.filter.map.u (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:49)
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at batch.processSortedSet.batch (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:6)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7) {"error":{},"stack":"TypeError: u.fullname.substr is not a function\n    at userData.filter.map.u (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:49)\n    at Array.map (<anonymous>)\n    at batch.processSortedSet.batch (/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js:19:6)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)","exception":true,"date":"Mon Jan 18 2021 01:26:01 GMT+1100 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)","process":{"pid":27161,"uid":0,"gid":0,"cwd":"/home/wtf/NodeBB","execPath":"/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/node","version":"v10.15.3","argv":["/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/node","/home/wtf/NodeBB/nodebb","upgrade"],"memoryUsage":{"rss":139489280,"heapTotal":113721344,"heapUsed":78097440,"external":22051721}},"os":{"loadavg":[2.603515625,2.49853515625,3.0625],"uptime":93440},"trace":[{"column":49,"file":"/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js","function":"userData.filter.map.u","line":19,"method":"u","native":false},{"column":null,"file":null,"function":"Array.map","line":null,"method":"map","native":false},{"column":6,"file":"/home/wtf/NodeBB/src/upgrades/1.15.0/fullname_search_set.js","function":"batch.processSortedSet.batch","line":19,"method":"batch","native":false},{"column":7,"file":"internal/process/next_tick.js","function":"process._tickCallback","line":68,"method":"_tickCallback","native":false}]}

The error suggests to me that there is an issue with someone's full name.

Some background info: my forum was originally a phpbb forum, which migrated to Discourse then finally to NodeBB. It's possible that a legacy username is invalid.

The templating system allows for some variables to be use when looping through posts in a topic.

For example, @first, @last

<!-- BEGIN posts -->
<!-- IF @first -->
  <h1>Main Author: {posts.username}</h1>
<!-- ENDIF @first -->
{posts.content}
<!-- IF @last -->
  End of posts. Click here to scroll to the top.
<!-- ENDIF @last -->
<!-- END posts -->

The BenchpressJS documentation says that @index @key and @value are available too.
Indeed when you print out @index it will show the index of the post DISPLAYED in the topic, with 0 being the first post displayed on the page.

I'm trying to create a modification to my template so that some HTML is displayed after the second post. Therefore my logic would be:

<!-- IF @index == 1 -->
 Some HTML Goes here
<!-- ENDIF @index == 1  -->

It seems that these kind of conditionals can't be used.
So what would be a way to get HTML to render after the Nth post in a topic page (with pagination enabled).