Would like to see this as well.
luke
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Some feedback from the lovely folk at my forum@psychobunny I definitely could see how the instantaneous loading would feel weird, but I actually find it awesome that things load that quickly in NodeBB.
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Loving the new Daily Digest!@a_5mith Yeah I think that's how it works.
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Loving the new Daily Digest!@julian Yep!
Strange, image uploading works now too.
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Some feedback from the lovely folk at my forum@psychobunny While we're discussing the fading, is there a way to turn it off? It's nice an all but I would like to turn it off for a forum I'm working on.
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Loving the new Daily Digest!greeting_with_name, NodeBB developers,
This is a fantastic work of art and it has improved my language skills: http://i.imgur.com/r0NDtn4.png
I believe this is different from a_5mith's bug report.It also appears that I cannot upload images, getting a parse error.
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Host Nodebb FreeFantastic, looks like I've got to spin up an Ubuntu VM on my computer to run those local git commands. https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/cloud/openshift.html
I'm a Windows plebian, is there any way to run those without using Linux?
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Host Nodebb FreeHonestly you're just asking for trouble if you go with a free host if you're serious about starting a forum. I guarantee you each one of those hosts you mentioned overcrowds their free servers to the point where performance is nonexistent.
The only reason I can fathom somebody trying to use of those hosts is for some weird thing that they can't do in a localhost environment and don't want to run on their production environment, but honestly I'd rather pay a few cents to spin up a VPS for a couple hours to do that than put up with a free option.
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The Plugin Ideas TopicHere's some stuff I'd like to see:
- Follow topics you reply to automatically - I've lost hope of this making it into core, but it's essential imo. It's a basic feature on every forum software I've used except NodeBB.
Not any I've used.
SMF has that feature, I know you've used that.
- Homepage as "all topics" view - looks like this is in development
Isn't this possible with the custom homepage and one category?
If it is, then we need some sort of guide imo.
- The ability to delete a user account but put the email on a blocklist, which would be handy for spammers, because you could delete their content and burn their email address so they can't register again. Not sure if something similar to this exists in the NodeBB antispam plugin.
Wouldn't work, spammers don't use the same email address, they use any host of temporary email suppliers, mailinator, gmx,minutemail + hundreds more.
A better option here would be being able to specify a list of blacklisted email domains.
That would be a better option, but I have had situations where I've deleted a spammer account and they've come back under the same email address.
@Tanner Would love to see subforums for sure, but only if they're restricted to one level deep, I hate it when admins on other forum software go crazy with subforums.
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The Plugin Ideas TopicHere's some stuff I'd like to see:
- Follow topics you reply to automatically - I've lost hope of this making it into core, but it's essential imo. It's a basic feature on every forum software I've used except NodeBB.
- Homepage as "all topics" view - looks like this is in development
- OP (topic creator) is topic moderator
- The ability to delete a user account but put the email on a blocklist, which would be handy for spammers, because you could delete their content and burn their email address so they can't register again. Not sure if something similar to this exists in the NodeBB antispam plugin.
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Who is using NodeBB?@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?
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Developer Environment@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.
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Developer EnvironmentStill trying to sort out which editor is my favorite in my environment. I use Sublime Text the most, but I love Bracket's easier extensibility and built-in folder browser. Haven't given Atom a spin yet but will very soon now that the Windows alpha is out.
I use AMPPS as my LAMP stack, pretty decent and it's from the guys who made Softaculous, so spinning up different forum scripts for fun and conversion experiments is easy.
And I still run NodeBB out of my downloads folder like a filthy casual.
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The Road To v0.5.0 and BeyondI liked Lavendar's homepage when it wasn't being buggy. I am looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with though.
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Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?@julian said:
So... do we really need a notification every time someone you follow posts something?
Well, not if we had like a stream page where we could see all that. Then, you could just show a notification that says "New posts from users you follow" and it goes to that stream, showing the full posts from those users. Just an idea, anyway.
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How to Change admin Login Page?I for one would still feel more secure if I could change my admin panel's URL.
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image upload no filter?Oh well that's good then, crisis averted! I guess the devs have that enabled for better troubleshooting when helping people.
Still, shouldn't there be some sort of filetype restriction?
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Option: Follow topics you reply to automatically@Ted Yeah, I like the way that works in IP.Board. You can set some default notifications for new users and then they can change it themselves later.
And yeah, the notification system needs work.
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image upload no filter?Well, this is concerning. @julian @psychobunny @baris
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Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?@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.