I've been using this for several years now and love it.

There's always someone in the forums that will help when problems come up.

I too run some services on the net and very much believe in paying attention to free users as well as customers because the goodwill can go a long way.

First I wanted to say I really appreciate nodebb. It's been a very usable solution for us after trying a few others that didn't work out.

Second, how can I contribute to the project, I looked and could not find a donation option anywhere.

@phenomlab Since enabling the plugins from the list (just one theme of course), now I see html code in all of the posts plus the above.

I definitely appreciate your offer to help. I'll try to solve these things or most on my own first and if I get stuck, I will update here.

Very much appreciate the help. It makes wanting to use nodebb a much more positive experience, even working through these problems.

Update: The answer is no but you'll have to look at the last few comments

I've posted about this before and I'm always told it's not a problem. If it's not a problem, why does Google and now Bing constantly send me emails like this one.

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Canonical tags can be used to help de-dupe URLs for pages with the same or very similar content. Bing has detected that your site is using what appears to be the same canonical URL for a large number of pages that are not the same. This may be indicative of a problem with your HTML template, content publishing system, or site code. You should review the source of your pages and check if the URLs used inside the <link rel="canonical" href="<url>" /> are not accidentally pointing to the same location for all (or too many) pages.
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Not indexed as this page is an alternate version of a canonical page
URL cannot appear on Bing
Discovered on 21 Jun 2023
Last crawl attempted 21 Jun 2023 at 00:43
Crawl allowed? Yes
Page Fetch Successful
Indexing allowed? Yes
Canonical URL:xxx
This page is an alternate version of the similar page which you have specified as canonical version using a <link rel="canonical"> tag. Bing does not index the alternate version.
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No matter what I do, both search engines keep complaining about this and I've no idea how to fix it. We badly need our forums to be properly indexed and we're not seeing that after using nodebb for probably over two years now.

Any thoughts?

I moved away from phpbb but certainly miss some of the security it had. Do I need to add yet another plugin to get some sort of security to slow that down?

PhpBB has some simple yet good ideas that should be implemented in nodebb. If I have to spend all my time fighting spammers signing up, it's going to be a problem using this board.

@julian

My assumption is more nefarious

Yes, depending on what the code is and how unsuspecting the target forum/service owner it.
You'd think that would be a one time payment though. "Here, put this plugin on your site, it does this little thing and we'll pay you $200/month for that". It would not be user count based which is why I was thinking they are gaining more data when more users are providing it.

I cannot imagine how many think they are making a few bucks every month but causing massive problems on the Internet unknowingly.

@eeeee Good of you to spot this and even share it.

Helps if I click the results button

Bah, my post is being hijacked!
Well, what would you call me then being in my early 60's :(.

Yes, the user can sort but is there a way to have most upvoted posts be at the top by default when a post is made specifically to get votes?

@julian Got it, all good. Your input got me to someone who will develop something for me.

Thank you.

@julian

Thanks for the input. yes, I checked those as well and everything looks fine other than the groups thing I mentioned. If you don't think the 403 to search is an issue, I will disregard it then.

@phenomlab Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for.

but I didn't know what terms to use as I'm not a designer but now understand and know what to look for.

Thank you very much for sharing that.

My next challenge is to learn if there is a way to change site wide text from one word or 'even phrases' from one to another :). Since the board was converted from a phpbb site, it left behind quite a mess that will have to be manually edited otherwise.

@julian Hi, there is no call to anything, just changing the API to https stops users from posting, including admins and moderators.

@crazycells Wow, never thought of looking in the posts section or when I did, I missed it. Thank you very much.

@phenomlab Yes, I definitely prefer dumping the database, editing then restoring but am new to mongodb so not sure how to do it yet. Was going to research that next but now seeing a lot of errors in the nodebb log after enabling the default plugins so have to work on that next.

The conversion process sure adds a lot of extra work to changing forums but I'll try to look at this as my way to get knee deep into learning more about nodebb I guess.

I'm looking for a way to list posts as Solved once it has been but I don't want to use someones hack that may or may not keep working.
Is there an official plugin or way of doing this?

@nodeham Thank you for all of the help. I will start a new thread for the next problem I am seeing.

If I recall, that's a redirection of 410 because the boards used to be phpbb and had those links. This option lets search engines know that those no longer exist.
That would not cause this problem but I tested, removed it and it's the same.

This seems to work.

#        error_page 404 /404.html;
#        location = /40x.html {
#        }

        error_page 404 /;
        proxy_intercept_errors on;
        proxy_redirect off;

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to implement it because different articles seem to show variations on the directives but it works.

Thank you for your input on this.

LOL, I thought a nodebb option was being mentioned.
Yes, I usually have it set as a service but I wanted to monitor it for a while before doing that on the new server.

@enot

In my case, I want as much as possible indexed by search engines and seen by guests.