Is there a way that I can save the plugins I install through the ACP on Amazon S3?

I currently host my forum on Heroku and it seems to default the theme when I have been offline for a long period of time. It does not delete the plugins though, a quick restart usually places everything back to where it was.

This last time I reconnected it was showing me the persona theme even though I'm using the slick theme. Has this happened to anyone else?

Heroku also has a free tier and it is the easiest setup I've found.

Is it possible to create plugins for this theme?
Would be cool to see a ticker plugin to stream any new/recent posts instead of a large recent cards plugin like that of the persona theme.

This would keep the slick style and fit nicely under the navbar.

On mobile devices the notifications aren't immidiately shown unless you click on the side panel. It would be nice to see a notification marker of some sorts on the navbar.

@julian what if this file could be broken up categorically? Export what you need? I would only require user info to be exported. I can manually set up pluggins since sometimes some break and therefore wouldn't want to upgrade my forum until those plugins are resolved.

Would user data alone create such a large file?

@scottalanmiller I do this with my Ghost blog updates. I prep and test the new version and when it's up and running I export the data from the old blog and import it into the new version. Once I see that no errors occur I deploy it into the production repo. It's a pretty smooth transition.

@julian what about being able to export the data as a json file so that we can just import it into a fresh new version of NodeBB?

It would be very cool to see an update button on the dashboard of the ACP. Having to update the forum using the command line can be very difficult for some.

Has this been suggested already?

@psychobunny I ended up starting from scratch and destroyed the database I was using and created a new one. Working on Heroku makes this very simple to do.

Two things I can't seem to get working now are my recent cards plugin and email services.

I also haven't managed to figure out how to upload cover images or profile photos. I get the "invalid mime type" alert.