It's been a while since I hosted nodebb. I haven't had much time to work on websites as of late. I used to host (about a year ago) NodeBB and the DB on a $5 digital ocean droplet with no problems. It wasn't very active, max of 3-5 people a day. But it felt like it could have easily handled way more without issue.

Works "ok", but the template you use has to support a widget space just on the homepage if you only want it there. I believe the default nodebb templates have only a global widget space. The Archive is broken so you won't be able to look back at old messages.

@pitaj Too late to say, I went ahead and downgraded to npm 4 in the minute after my post. It did appear to be the issue though as it is working now.

Thanks!

I'm on 6.11.3, the latest LTS. I was on 4 prior to the update, but ran into issues installing telling me that my node version wasn't new enough for Benchmarkjs (your new template engine). I figured it would be safe to update to the latest LTS?

I just updated to Nodebb v1.6 from 1.4. I noticed that whenever I went and installed a plugin that it removed the plugin I installed previously. I was trying to get my SSO set back up. So I installed the facebook SSO. Then I installed the Google SSO and it removed the facebook SSO. Then I installed the twitter sso, and the google was removed.

Has anyone else experienced this? I also installed the shoutbox in there, and it removed the twitter sso, so I don't think it is just related to the SSO.

Not one website I use is a PWA as far as I can tell.

This is pretty nice. Keep up the work. Hopefully you don't find it too difficult to actually implement into a template.

@tigger That is an interesting idea! I'll have to give that a stab.

@Waqass-Khalid

As of date is it the only option available? shared hosting still not possible?

Not unless the shared hosting provider gives you some command line access and will let you install nodejs, and run several npm commands. Plus they have to have MongoDB or Redis access for database. Most shared hosting providers don't have the software necessary for running nodebb, and they won't let you install it.

@pichalite Awesome and thank you! It's much better now.

I'm 100% sure you can, as long as your not copying open source code from other plugins that don't allow for building off of them with a commercialized product.

Nice work @pichalite! My members are extremely confused that the last Post only shows the member and a timestamp. Most of them tried clicking the users username since it didn't have any text, and of course it failed. That was the only complaint I've received though. I personally love it and let them know to click the timestamp to go to the post. From a user perspective it might make more sense to make the link to the last post more prominent though.

Is NodeBB running still? The process might have crashed.

@AOKP

Julian is talking about voting for issues other than President. Like Senate members, governors, and congress. Or Referendums, and other local items up for a vote.

@MJ Another quicker option if the plugin isn't possible in a good amount of time; and if your community is small and trustworthy, you can create an account called anonymous and sticky a topic in a forum only they can see with the password for the account.

@sergej-saveljev

It worked fine for about a year, then it randomly crashed on it's own. I would have to reinstall it to get it back up and running. But it would happen again after a few days.

@sergej-saveljev

I had a lot of issues with redis as well, so I moved to MongoDB and haven't had a single issue since. I would highly recommend migrating to MongoDB.

Today we are voting for who will become president starting next year. It's pretty lame because the candidates stink. I was seriously tempted to vote Canada for President. As my wife says though, "life will go on no matter who wins."