I know this has been requested many times, but this is my personal single most-wanted feature in NodeBB. 1-to-1 chatting is great but group chatting would be killer functionality.

Happy birthday @psychobunny!

@psychobunny I think I got it?

@prog It's available as a plugin. Check out nodebb-plugin-recent-cards.

@Kowlin just a side note, I always make sure I require email verification which seems to stop spoof email addresses at the point of registration.

@a_5mith

someone did once complain that NodeBB wasn't written in php

Even platforms such as WordPress are looking towards JavaScript going forward. See talk on JSON REST API. JS is the way forward! NodeBB is leading the way

Please forgive my newbie question but can .htaccess files be used with NodeBB?

I usually enable them via Apache and then place one in my project's root directory but I have no idea where that is with reference to NodeBB.

These look awesome! I did something like that for BuddyPress (remove the need for Gravatar) by drawing GitHub-style "identicons" (see here) for users without a profile photo. My project used the GD PHP library so it won't be useful here but it's great to see you're going to be removing (many) calls to the (external) Gravatar service.

@julian @psychobunny has a point about Liverpool. They tend to cause their fans pain and suffering quite a lot

Currently watching categories is opt-out. On forums having lots of new topics, this results in a huge number of items in example.com/unread. I think the unread page would be far more useful if watching categories was opt-in. That way /unread would contain only the items a user is interested in from the start and they won't have to go ignore a bunch of categories in order for /unread to become useful.

I'm wondering what plugins are used here? Is a list available?

The NodeBB homepage (Persona) currently has ~48 validation errors when you run the page through the W3C Validator.

When I checked last month, the error count was > 100. Much progress has been made but It'd be great to get NodeBB to validate. What do you guys think?

@a_5mith you could do this to be sure:

.account-picture-block .status {
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

@UnknownGeek Sadly, it is true.

This is a super cool plugin. The only improvement I can think of is to have it available as a widget for display anywhere instead of making it available to the categories page only.

+1

The icons seem to be predominantly red in colour. Is the colour randomly generated?

Think this is related to the new slide-in menu. See here

@psychobunny I hope you're not a Tottenham Hotspur fan?

@julian you could get the colours to be more varied than that. In my project I used an MD5 hash of the person's username to get a hex colour that's highly likely to be unique. For ex:

$hash = md5( $username );
$hex_colour = substr( $hash, 0, 6 );

JavaScript obviously doesn't implement an md5() function but you could maybe use a library?

Also, on the mobile swipe-in menu, can you see any notifications? I've just upvoted your post so you should have one unread. I can't myself.