On our version of NodeBB (v1.17.2) which uses the Redactor plugin for text entry, clicking the Redactor's Video button to embed a video, the dialog that opens suggests:

Video Embed Code or YouTube/Vimeo Link

But if you actually enter the embed code from Vimeo, it messes up the post to the point where the user can no longer edit it.

On the other hand, a YouTube or Vimeo link by itself works fine.

I know Redactor is no longer supported, but do you have any idea how we could fix this issue?

Best Wishes,
Mark

We're experiencing spam accounts relatively regularly and I'm looking for advice on reducing the workload.

I searched this forum for the word "spam" but most of the posts are from a long time ago. So hopefully it is useful to all to open this discussion again.

First, we have enabled the "Post Queue" feature so that our moderator must review the posts of new users. This allows us to catch the spam accounts and posts, but when these spam attacks come (usually in waves) it eats up a fair amount of the moderator's time – time when he should be helping our users.

The Spam-Be-Gone plugin is installed, but not all options are active. Here is the status of each of the features:

• Askimet: Off (paid option only)
• Project Honeypot: On
• Google Re-Captcha: On
• Stop Forum Spam: Off (free)
• hCaptcha: Off (free and paid options)

Of those that are enabled, Re-Captcha doesn't seem to be doing much to stop registrations. Maybe they are being done manually, or the AI behind these bots is simply too good for that to work?

Of the three options we don't use (Askimet, Stop Forum Spam and hCaptcha), I'd really like to hear about the experience of others regarding their effectiveness

Given that Stop Forum Spam is free, I guess we should enable that one. Do others here agree?

Several online reviews speak highly of Askimet, and I'm very much willing to pay for this if it really does the job.

Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge and wisdom on this topic.

Best Wishes,
Mark

On our version of NodeBB (v1.17.2) which uses the Redactor plugin for text entry, clicking the Redactor's Video button to embed a video, the dialog that opens suggests:

Video Embed Code or YouTube/Vimeo Link

But if you actually enter the embed code from Vimeo, it messes up the post to the point where the user can no longer edit it.

On the other hand, a YouTube or Vimeo link by itself works fine.

I know Redactor is no longer supported, but do you have any idea how we could fix this issue?

Best Wishes,
Mark

On our site at https://community.troikatronix.com we continue to use Redactor with NodeBB 1.17.2

For a logged in user, if you:

1. Go to the forum
2. Click a topic to open it
3. Hit the blue "Reply" button

Redactor opens fine and you can type your reply, etc.

But if you

1. Go to the forum
2. Right click a topic and say "open in new tab" – which causes the topic to open in a new tab (obviously)
3. Hit "Reply"

There is no response.

This happens on Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

In both cases the button;s HREF is something like

https://community.troikatronix.com/compose?tid=XXXX&title=Post Title

Why does this work when you go into the topic directly and not work when you open it in a new tab?

Best Wishes,
Mark

@julian

Can you offer any feedback to the post above from our tech person?

Thanks in Advance,
Mark

P.S. One other question: is it possible for a single user to choose to use the standard markup editor instead of Redactor/Quill via some kind of setting? It doesn't seem to be an option, but I wanted to make sure that I'm not missing something.

@julian said in Bugs in Quill (NodeBB 1.16.2):

Redactor hasn't been disabled, per se, we just no longer actively develop on it.

Our tech found that it was not possible. I have asked him to post here to explain why it didn't work.

@julian said in Bugs in Quill (NodeBB 1.16.2):

Quill is probably the better path moving forward. How are you trying to embed youtube videos, via a plugin?

Well, in redactor this button that allowed you to specify a movie URL.

using this dialog:

Quill does not seem to offer the same option. So I'm just dropping the URL into Quill. The link works. But it doesn't embed.

(Note: pre NodeBB 1.16.2 posts that had embedded video still show them as embedded; switching to Quill did not change the behavior of these older posts.)

Best Wishes,
Mark

Dear All,

We are in the process of upgrading to NodeBB 1.16.2. It seems that, in this version, Redactor has been disabled and that the only option for a WYSIWYG editor is Quill.

We have immediately discovered two issues in Quill, which are mentioned in a post from November 2020:

1. If you select some text in another user's post and hit the reply button, Quill does not enter the selected text as a quote as seen below:

@blahblahblah Said:

Quoted Text here with a bar to the left

2. You can no longer embed a YouTube video.

Will either of these get fixed any time soon? It is discouraging when an update offers them reduced functionality.

Thanks in advance for whatever insights any of you might have.

Best Wishes,
Mark

We have a self-hosted version of NodeBB 1.15.0. We use Redactor when users post, because our core audience are not the kind of folks who generally would "get" using markup.

Over the last several weeks (and this does seem to have come up long after we upgraded to 1.15.0) users have been complaining that they cannot reply, as you can see in this thread on our forum

Is this a known bug in 1.15.0? Does the latest version address this issue?

Thanks in Advance for Any Info,
Mark

Howdy.

We're self-hosting NodeBB v1.15.0. (We upgraded to that version a few months ago.) I've noticed that when replying to posts and typing @... where I enter a few letters of the users handle, it no longer offers a popup menu to let you choose the correct person.

Was that feature removed from NodeBB, or did it stop working?

If it's a bug, will it come back?

Or could it be something about our configuration?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@mark-coniglio

bump? has anyone taken note of this?