This was useful. Nice.

This is cool

@julian Thanks for the clarification.

In other words, I cannot have a mobile app to create topics in a nodebb instance without having a server component to create JWT tokens. Can you confirm this ?

Typically In JWT, a token is returned from the server after a successful authentication . You would use the token for all other successive requests.

JWT.IO - JSON Web Tokens Introduction

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I have integrated apis with client apps through JWT in the past as well. It is the same approach taken.

Is this the approach followed in Nodebb ?

The write api plugin readme seemingly suggest a different approach
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-write-api#json-web-tokens

I might be wrong here ..but this sounds like a very insecure way. Why would I reveal the secret in the client apps to generate a token. (Also I didnt see any jwt.sign method in this plugin or in the nodebb core, so it is definitely expecting the token to be generated from client ).

@baris @julian @psychobunny It would be nice if you any of you guys can authoritatively say the right approach to do the JWT authn.

Thanks in advance

any update on the plans for improvements in mobie composer UX ?

@julian @psychobunny I really feel this plugin is important. It makes total sense for a community admin to support their users in a private place which can be tracked in a scalable way.

It has numerous applications from IT support portal, learning communities , healthcare communities, ombudsman group in enterprises. This can bring you lot of customers who looks for 1 stop shop for all community managment. You can highlight this feature in your site as well.

I follow Discourse and have seen them implementing it very recently among lot of requests (In fact they have done it in a complex way within groups functionality). Nodebb plugin approach of using categories IMHO is the right way.

I understand that you would love to do it as a custom service. I feel you would get more visibility if you do it as a community plugin. Since you have already have it for older versions, I feel it is wise to do it for the new versions as well. I would urge you to reconsider the upgrade path for the support plugin.

@psychobunny any updates on the badges now that we have 0.5.3. I have tested both discourse and nodebb. I have to decide soon. Any timeline ?

@julian I couldnt run Nodebb in heroku with loader.js. I am able to do with web app.js.

Is there a way to do clustering in heroku or digital ocean if the mongo is hosted in mongolabs/momgohq ?

Thanks @a_5mith. That cleared many apprehensions.

I am still looking out for the following items

Your inputs will be very helpful. @psychobunny @Julian @baris can you shed some light ?

• How can an admin / moderator manage users (add new / remove existing users) only with in their category ? This is very important because each sub forums used to have separate admins to manage users in our custom built forum.

• List of users who favorited a topic in a separate page - Ideally I want to use this for event RSVPs to see who actually are attending

• Can all user settings have default values set by admins. End user can override it. But default values should be set by admins especially like daily digest, following topics..Is this possible ?

• Will daily digest be separate for each category or it will be consolidated into one mail for all categories ?

• Does Nodebb require sticky session based load balancing ?

On a side note I was trying to add community representatives through @mention but the link seems to be not active. Please refer my previous comment

@a_5mith @Community-Representatives @psychobunny Can we have this feature to assign daily digest as default.

Do we have the following features in NodeBB ?

• List of users who favorited a topic in a separate page - Ideally I want to use this for event RSVPs to see who actually are attending

• Is there a way to send daily digest for individual categories ? Can we organize posts in a digest based on the tags ?

• Can we assign individual moderators to categories to manage the users for that specific category ?

• Is there any calendar integration ?

Clarifications Required

• If I use Nodebb as a backend to run a paid forum or marketplace with some modifications, do I need to share the whole code to everyone as per GPL3 license ?

• Can NodeBB scale with Heroku if we add more servos ? Do we need sticky sessions for load balancing ?

• Is there a way to use Redis for reading and Mongo for writing documents ?

Any inputs here @psychobunny @Julian @baris ?