I'm checking back in from a while ago. Since the first post I've moved VPS's from digital ocean to ovh and now I'm moved to vpsdime. I highly recommend them. They say the large storage vps IO is too slow for production but so far it has seriously been 10x faster in disk benchmarks and 20% faster in cpu calculations.

Anyway, back to what I was going to say.

I started nodebb using a root cron
@reboot forever start /home/blue/nodebb/app.js
turns out this gave me the button errors.
This method works without issues
@reboot cd /home/blue/nodebb && forever start app.js

Interesting huh? Hopefully this helps someone avoid the headaches I've encountered. Any ideas why this may be?

I installed v0.6.x-dev which may have been the cause. Also, I may not have ran "npm install -g forever" in the nodebb directory. I'm not sure if this would make a difference?

Forever is working fine with v0.5.4 and installation using "npm install -g forever" in the nodebb directory.
I execute Forever using this cron job.
@reboot cd /home/nodebb && forever start app.js

I'm sorry, I should have written that.
I just fired NodeBB up again with Forever. At login it says

"Failed login attempt, please try again.
Invalid Password"

And when I stop NodeBB with forever and start it again (with sudo ./nodebb start) it works.

This is cross browser. (IE, Waterfox, Chrome)

Also, I had another very weird bug on Digital Ocean experimenting with Forever and NodeBB but I can't recall the specifics. (Things weren't loading.) I'm on an OVH VPS right now.

Thanks for your hard work!