Yup! Hoping to see the library we are using get updated with the official APIs, rather than the "shake and bake" community created one we were using.

Very exciting.

I'm not an expert in NodeBB or Meteor, but I am well versed in the space in between and explored both.

NodeBB and Meteor are built on completely different principles. Meteor is heavily front end driven, while NodeBB is heavily back end driven.

Meteor handles templating on the front end and uses a server/cloud mostly just for API calls to get the info it needs to serve.

NodeBB assembles everything backend and then uses front-end Javascript/AJAX/Jquery for dynamic interaction.

It is doable thanks to the NodeBB API for a Meteor App to get what it needs from a NodeBB server, however the rest of the application would have to almost be built from the ground up to accommodate the differences in interaction. At that point, it would be less of a NodeBB Forum software and a NodeBB Server with a Meteor app attached.

I'm helping Lewis with this, and we had the idea that we would like to see Discord and NodeBB feel more seamless of an experience when it comes for our users (gamers).

We found that we have moved away from SMF forums as a community center and using Discord for almost every use case, however Discord lacks in the ability to easily find and organize information that you want to be persistent, and this is where forums like NodeBB excel. The idea is to bring Discord and our forum software closer together so that our community can have a healthy interplay between the two.

This may potentially go beyond just Discord and NodeBB interaction, but also being a central hub to allow other kinds of scripts to happen with other APIs that we want to communicate with both the forum software and Discord simultaneously. This obviously opens the door to all kinds of creative uses, and with Lewis' excellent work and attempts to open up plugins to play with other plugins, hopefully make it an easily extendable way for others to use the bot for their own needs.

I will be working on a Theme for our community site as well that caters to our sense of style and a skin or two to go with it. So, expect to see a little more from the two of us.

Looking for how to setup a user setting for a plugin. Probably put this into the User Settings of their profile area. I have a plugin project I found that has some examples to work from, but it would be nice if I could find some guides to accelerate this.

Thanks!