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

@meetdilip I'd recommend migrating that SMF database to phpBB and then using @psychobunny's importer to import your content into NodeBB.

Despite the translation errors, I'm really happy to see these options in the user cp:

Thanks devs!

NodeBB also has Pushbullet support, albeit only on the official forums currently. I really don't see the need for a dedicated app for NodeBB anytime soon, or even putting dev time in for Tapatalk support, when it's really not necessary.

Either way, my opinion is that it would be a waste of dev time that could be spent better elsewhere on the project.

But, let's see what the dev team thinks. I'm just stating my thoughts on the matter.

Would love to see this as a side-by-side view, like in Ghost or Discourse. Format with Markdown on the left, or format with WYSIWYG on the right, and both panes update at the same time.

@HolyPhoenix Here's the MyBB 1.6 convertor I used to convert a small forum with 9k posts: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=13553521#p13553521

The MyBB 1.4 convertor has worked for me as well in the past, there's not a lot of differences between 1.6 and 1.4 in the database: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=12874980#p12874980

Full list of convertors: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=1641375

@a_5mith Good luck! Let me know how it goes.

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

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.

Currently, when you reply to a post in a thread by clicking the Reply link on that post, it inserts the username into the editor and puts the cursor before the username. In my opinion, and this may just be because I'm using to the way mentions work on Twitter, I think the cursor should be automatically placed with a space after the username, like this:

as opposed to this, the way it currently works (although it does add a space at the end of the username):

With the way it currently works, I press the End key on my keyboard and I'm fine, but I think it would be nice if the cursor just started there anyway. Might just be me, though.

@baris Just wanted to point out some links in the list that either no longer use NodeBB, hosting is down, or have expired domains:

• http://shopperslove.com/
• http://www.manutdforums.com/
• http://frontlineofsteel.com:82/
• http://discuss.dealstan.com/
• http://konsortium.k0nsl.org/
• http://www.clanhubcommunity.com/
• http://supernerdz.com/
• http://forum.imvucodes.net/
• http://www.tvfever.com/
• http://community.dataloop.io/
• http://community.myfootballmanager.net/
• http://lochap.com/
• http://seychas.org/
• http://infinitecrisis.brvy.me/
• http://orgcoin.org/
• http://www.rahuldudeja.com/
• http://alfreddobradi.net/
• http://forum.fangsniping.tk/
• http://recbug.com/

@Scuzz Yeah it just has a popup after a certain number of saves, but you can keep using it without buying it. Definitely a good free editor.

@ronalbarbaren Curious as to your VPS setup, your forum seems pretty responsive right now. What OS do you run and do you have swap enabled?