I'd like to subscribe to a newsletter that would go directly into a category on board. Any way to do that?

@Jenkler So how do you keep your installed plugins?

(the way I do it now is install plugins locally with npm -S so they go into package.json and then push to deploy on the server)

OK, that's one way. I would like a like with teaser and "latest updated" etc. if possible...

I have a topic I want always to be linked from my custom home page. There are widgets for popular topics, suggested topics etc. but nothing for one specific topic. How would you write a custom html/script block to do that?

So, I tried it out. Turns out package.json is NOT updated when you install a plugin. However, node_modules is updated since installing a plugin actually does npm install. I want a completely redeployable container, so I think the only way right now is to install plugins by changing package.json in my github repo. Not the most flexible way, but on the other hand being able to deploy the forum to another server in 10 minutes if something brakes is pretty useful...

What about package.json. Don't you need that? (the plugins are in there...) Do you just reinstall them on a restore?

I'm building a dockerized nodebb, and I need to decide which folders should go into a persisted volume to survive rebuilds/restarts... package.js is updated every time you install a plugin, but is anything else updated? public/stylesheets seems modified? Am I best off persisting everything?

@Bri No, you understood right. I just want to disable /recent (and basically everything else except /) for anonymous users. And I've disabled guest access to both navigation and all categories (but you can still access it as anonymous)

@julian Any examples of html code with scripting that does that? (or something else, I'm a developer but don't really know where to start looking).

@Jenkler How would you make a .htaccess that knows if the user is logged in?

I would like to protect the whole NodeBB site requiring users to log in to see anything. Ideally I would like the starpage to be a login form (I think I know how to do that with a custom home page and html widget). I've removed guest access to all categories and also removed all navigation options for non logged in users. But routes like /recent are still accessible by just typing the address in the url bar...

@AOKP I deploy everything I develop and maintain through docker cloud, it's the best build/deploy system I've used to date. I don't want a separate infrastructure for NodeBB if I decide to use it. But I'll just roll my own Dockerfile (or take a look at @Jenkler's).

About Docker in general - it is nothing short of awesome to be able to build, test and deploy in a single step, scale up services with more application servers (containers) in a minute or so, add new hardware servers with bascially zero configuration etc.

I tried you repo, but unfortunately the Mongo container fails:

mongodb_1  | Error relocating /usr/bin/mongod: _ZNK5boost16re_detail_10600031cpp_regex_traits_implementationIcE17transform_primaryEPKcS4_: symbol not found

mongodb_1  | Error relocating /usr/bin/mongod: _ZNK5boost16re_detail_10600031cpp_regex_traits_implementationIcE9transformEPKcS4_: symbol not found

nodebbdockerdev_mongodb_1 exited with code 127

Searching StackOverflow it seems this is an issue with Mongo on Alpine...

(I using Docker beta for MacOS, but I don't think this is the issue)

The docker-builds repository is gone from NodeBB's github account and the images in Docker Hub are nine months old (and give you version 0.6 of NodeBB). Are the docker images no longer maintained? Does anyone have a docker-compose stack to share?