It depends on what kind of audience you have in my opinion, as example if you have a forum that is generally for a open discussion and supporting each other I would keep it open.

@ron_jeremy it is compatible with NodeBB v0.9.x

@AOKP THx for your help -- I have a new instance of NodeBB (on Ubuntu 14.04) up and running. The testing continues.

@AOKP I will give this a shot for sure! But my top priority is keeping my test forum up and running for more than 48 hours straight before it ***** the bed. lol

@ron_jeremy said: I'm not 100% sure. I have "failed" to install NodeBB on a DigitalOcean Droplet about 25 times by now. Seriously, I'm not exaggerating. The people at DO must have wondered "wtf is this guy doing?" because I was creating and destroying Droplets non-stop for days. I think what made the difference for me this time was not installing redis or nodejs as per the official NodeBB install document. Instead, I only installed the Chris Lea files. I was so tired to trying different methods of installation I actually started keeping a log of what I was doing. I got it down to where only a few lines would change, and I am pretty sure this is what finally worked for me (remember, this is on a DO Droplet running Ubuntu 14.04 x64): add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server apt-get update apt-get install redis-server apt-get update apt-get install git apt-get install build-essential apt-get install imagemagick apt-get install python-software-properties add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade mkdir nodebb git clone git://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB.git nodebb cd nodebb npm install node app --setup - only modify first line where I enter my server's address http://your.server.ip.address (without the port) and hit 'Enter' for all other options node app - Now you can go to http://your.server.ip.address:4567 to see the forum I have try this but when i go to npm install i get this : E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. PD. Got fixed with : apt-get remove --purge nodejs npm curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash - apt-get install nodejs

@yariplus I could have sworn you just said Lisp XD

@ron_jeremy We do offer the non-profit plan (at the $20/mo price point), although support is not included with that plan, and is billed hourly. We'd need any non-profit documentation you can obtain (either provincial or federal) in order to verify eligibility

@BDHarrington7 No idea, and wouldn't know how to check it. Anyway, I already destroyed the Droplet so I can't answer that question. In a bit I will rebuild a new CentOS droplet and start from scratch. I think my biggest issue is simply not understanding file and directory paths. I am likely in the wrong folder running commands that expect me to be in another folder, etc. If I had hair on my head it would be gone by now.

I am up and running! I am pretty sure I figured out what the issue was. Oh man, this is embarrassing... So, I used the Terminal on my Mac to ssh into the server. However, what I didn't know is that I must have somehow lost the connection either from being away from the computer for too long and/or letting the computer go to sleep. So, when I would go back to continue with the tutorial I was no longer connected to the server, and thus when I was running the command I would see the error. I dunno, I think that's what happened. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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