When I reply to a topic, I'd like to be able to follow it automatically, as an option in the Settings area. This is a useful option that other forum software has and I think NodeBB would benefit from it.

Here's some reasons why:

• Users will be more engaged as more people reply
• It's easier than remembering to click the heart button > Watch
• It makes sense

Here's how it works in detail:

• Open up a topic
• Post reply to topic
• Topic is automatically added to subscriptions and you will be notified when new replies are posted
• Feature can be turned off in Settings

Anybody else been playing Starbound? It's pretty darn cool.
It's like Terraria but you can travel between planets and there's a variety of different monsters and stuff.
Check it out: http://playstarbound.com/

@trevor It's funny, but the last time I took Discourse for a spin and dug around to see what I had to do to theme it, I found I had to store images in a thread on the forum. That's right. You store your Discourse theme images in a forum thread. And working with Docker is a real pain, even though it's supposed to make running Discourse easier.

Despite those issues, I do like Discourse's fixed-width design, NodeBB's full-width design is only good until up to 1000px or so, then it really needs a max-width attribute or I have a hard time with it, especially on my 1080p monitor. I know about the super hidden button on the bottom right to change it to fixed-width too, but that isn't very useful because the homepage looks awful at whatever that button sets the width to. And it's not intuitive to click that button because you'll never known it's there until you accidentally mouse over it one day or someone here tells you. That's when a design has failed, it's when things aren't intuitive.

Discourse also takes 3-5 seconds to show anything the first time you visit a Discourse forum after the DNS resolves. You just sit there spinning for a bit on a blank white page. Really irritating to me, but they're working on that.

Notifications in NodeBB are also pretty messy as well, especially if you're following several people, because you get this:

I think a lot of those could have been truncated into "User made 5 new posts" and then you could click to expand or view a page like the Unread tab listing those posts the user made, or something. And it's not just with new posts either, watched topic notifications are just as messy.

Anyway, I think when it comes down to it NodeBB is definitely better than Discourse. I like the stuff Discourse is doing and it does feel more refined, but the setup + VPS requirements just aren't worth it. I think NodeBB could use some inspiration from that project in some areas though.

This looks a lot better than "User made a new post, User made a new post, User made a new post..."

@a_5mith I don't want it myself, I'm just trying to encourage community theme submissions

@a_5mith I might be basing my dislike of those redundant notifications on the fact that I have Chrome notifications enabled for this forum, so I get two popups every time a mention of me plus a reply in a watched topic happens, but I still think it needs grouping.

I currently run several forums (with different domains, databases, and subjects) off of a VPS using Vanilla Forums, which I have set up so that each forum uses the same core files. This makes it easier to update these forums.

I like NodeBB and want to start using it for one of my forums and eventually all of them if it goes smoothly, but I'm wondering, can I run multiple forums off of one NodeBB instance? This would save update hassles and possibly RAM if my noobish understanding of how NodeJS works is correct.

I haven't actually installed NodeBB yet, so you'll have to forgive me if I sound stupid.

@a_5mith Sounds good. The forum I'm looking to convert is dead in terms of activity and I don't expect it to pick up anytime soon, so that works.

imo the only reason to use Tapatalk on a forum is if that forum doesn't have a good mobile interface, which NodeBB has.

Also, seems that it costs $69 a month. https://tapatalk.com/faq.php

Big fan of games and am a hardcore PC gamer here. If you need some help getting that site going, I'd be happy to help.

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@a_5mith I haven't opened Gmail on the web or on my OnePlus One since I started using Inbox about a week ago. It's really hooked me on the whole inbox zero idea with the task-oriented design. I really like the snooze feature too, sometimes I forgot to address emails later on in Gmail.

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I used to use Sublime Text for everything, but now I'm alternating between Sublime and Brackets.

@Nodekko I think that's unnecessary clutter, personally. But a plugin developer here may take interest.

What exactly do you mean? This is a very vague request.

@a_5mith I have had very good luck with Akismet on some Vanilla forums I run. Sometimes tools like Project Honeypot or StopForumSpam let new spammers through, while Akismet detects spam and hides it. I believe a combination of both is pretty powerful.

I do agree though that captchas just aren't good these days. I hate filling them out, and they're pretty ineffective against modern spammers.

@esiao I really like your theme!

@j3nkl3r What exactly is buggy for you? It would help if you submitted bug reports to improve NodeBB and reach that level of stability you're looking for.