The map certainly seems like a "plugin feature" to me, so I'm happy with that. But I'd like to have the plugin as it seemed like a pretty cool feature. Although honestly other than the admins, I'm not sure that anyone in our community was even aware that it was there. So not sure if there was the slightest impact. No one has mentioned it yet.
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Who is using NodeBB?@planner said:
are you trying to warn the rest of us that Redis is not the best DB to use for very active sites?
We are running at hundreds and closing in on a thousand posts a day and we are only three weeks old and still running "under the radar" so to speak while we get things in order. We are expecting to be scaling towards a million posts a year and geographically dispersed so the need for pretty decent scalability is there.
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SSL (HTTPS)I would recommend having NGinx in front of NodeBB too. Even if you don't use SSL.
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Mongo vs Redis: which one is better for a huge community?@Pramvir-Rathee said in Mongo vs Redis: which one is better for a huge community?:
@ludam So you tried nodebb + mongo on your huge community or not ? Because i want same, have a millions pages, 50 gb data community, do not know how much RAM mongo will require for this data.
Anyone here have any idea ?Redis is not for large deployments. MongoDB uses far less memory as it is not an "in memory" database. It's meant for scaling much larger than Redis is. You would use Redis for your sessions, but not for your community data.
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Who is using NodeBB?We are also running off of RAID 10 SSD to keep the disk access snappy. So we should be pulling over 50K IOPS.
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About topic follow notification spam@julian said:
Difficult to determine which is best. I agree that the notification alerts are spammy, although if you were following along with a topic via email, then with this change, you'd only get one email, and you'd be forced to visit the forum to "clear" the block...
Just make it a behavioural option with a system default and the ability for individual users to override if they want.
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Scheduled PostsA feature that I would love to see, not just for me but for my team, is the ability to post "early" and schedule a post to not appear until later. This could be posting a post or an entire thread, both would be ideal. Thread is the more important of the two. Would be extremely handy as we have people who post news items and things of interest and would like them to be spread out, not all posting all at once.
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How Do We Disable Daily Digests?Daily Digest emails are working and work pretty well. Only one little snag, we can't turn them off and we have users who are annoyed by the uninvited intrusion, for obvious reasons. Is there any way that we can disable them or control them? Controlling by user would be ideal, but short of that, we need a way to cut them off completely. Any ideas?
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Chat Windows Not Refreshingyes, working here too. 2.6 was the trick. We have been pretty stable for a week now.
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About topic follow notification spam@exodo said:
@julian said:
Difficult to determine which is best. I agree that the notification alerts are spammy, although if you were following along with a topic via email, then with this change, you'd only get one email, and you'd be forced to visit the forum to "clear" the block...
Sure. Isnt is forum about user interaction? More visits for the website and more activity.
recieving email for mention is nice but for every new post its just disturbing , and of course not only email, this extended to pushbullet or telegram etc
Following popular topics become impossibleWe all have to stop following the big ones on ML. The notification system has been mostly ignored as the volume has always been too high. The little "bell" icon for me is always 20+. Even if I clear it, the next screen refresh it is often right back up again.
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Please let us know whether NodeBB will be actively maintained as Enterprise Grade Community Software. ?@Mukkamala-Akhil said in Please let us know whether NodeBB will be actively maintained as Enterprise Grade Community Software. ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Please let us know whether NodeBB will be actively maintained as Enterprise Grade Community Software. ?:
Not rude, just wondering why you were tagging me for input for plugin requests. I'm a pretty random person to have asked to respond about them.
Cos, You replied to my previous thread. So I thought you'll be throwing some light about NodeBB.
Sure, but your questions were about feature requests. Your original question was about when NodeBB would be enterprise maintained, and that was easy to answer... five years ago and continuously since then. It's absolutely enterprise ready now.
Your next set of questions weren't really questions, but just mentions of features specific for you that you'd like someone to develop. There wasn't really a question to answer there, it's just a note that you'd like to see those features. Not much that I, as a long time user, can say about those.
I can shed light on the usual paths... you can make a thread requesting them (one thread each or no one will notice), but unless they get loads of traction, there is no reason to assume that NodeBB will even consider that - that's not how the core system works. You can hope that others want them too and that someone third party makes a plugin for you to use, but if that is going to happen it is most likely to have already happened. You can offer a bounty on the plugins. Or you can hire either NodeBB themselves or a third party to make plugins. That's easy to do, but expensive.
Other than that, I'm just an end user like you, but not one that wants those features so am glad that NodeBB is not focusing on them.
The reason that no one responded to that particular post is because, if you read it, there isn't a question - nothing that would warrant a response. So I had read it, but it just seemed like you were mentioning a wish list. Which would make no sense for me to respond to since you weren't wishing it from me.
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Need freelancer with Nodebb experience@a_5mith said:
@kinderjaje A personal favourite of mine
After sending two invoices for payment, I sent another and called the client when the receipt that they had received came back.
Client: Why are you calling me?
Me: You haven’t paid and this is the third invoice I’ve sent.
Client: It’s even more than the last one!
Me: Yes. The contract you signed stated that I would add a late fee for payment.
Client: You mean I have to actually pay you? I thought you were joking!
Me: What on earth made you think that?
Client: You’re a freelancer!
Me: And…
Client: Well, you work for free! If you were supposed to be paid, you’d be called a paidlancer or something!I've gotten "you posted a comment on a public technical forum that does not charge for people to ask questions, therefore you have no right to be paid, ever."
Um, what? It was a site like this one. A company in Toronto actually told me directly that anyone who posts anything online has no right to receive payment for work, even when under negotiated contract.
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Disabling Reputation Disables the Wrong ThingWe want to disable reputation (tied to people) on our community. We have issues with people trying to game for "points" and that creates an unhealthy environment. We don't want people to have points (post counts are fine, people know what those are and what they mean.)
When we disabled reputation, all it did was turn off up and down voting on threads and posts, which is not what we wanted. We still need posts and threads to get voted on so that people know what is good and can communicate when they like or dislike something. The reputation is still there for people, which is bad since it is now locked to the last time the up and down votes were still on.
So the disable reputation doesn't disable reputation, but does disable voting. This is backwards to us. Everyone is hounding me that they need their voting. How can we actually disable reputation but not cripple the site in the process?
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Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?@omega said in Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?:
A one click would be useful alright.
Would only take a minute to turn this into a one click install
Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4
NodeBB is a powerful, open source package for building online communities and forums. We usually recommend running it on CentOS 7. The current NodeBB relea...
MangoLassi (mangolassi.it)
We can deploy on CentOS 7 in a minute or two. We do it repeatedly for testing. Just go right through the list and done.
(Notice you need to update 1.11.x to 1.12.x).
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Report IdeasI like report, I'll admit it. But running NodeBB for so long, with so many users, means we have a lot of potential data about how users are using the site (not navigating it, like Google Analytics tracks) that I think that it could be really useful to many NodeBB admins to have visibility into this.
Some reports or report features that I would like to see...
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Reports need numbers AND the graph. If I put in a custom date, the graph updates and is awesome, but I don't get any numerical data from it so it can be very hard to really dig into the data. (Example, if I look up traffic numbers from January or a single day, I can see the graph, but don't get totals anywhere.)
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More built ins would be nice. Like not just "last week, last month, last year" but also "select a week, month, year".
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Selectable granularity would be nice. Show data by hour, day, week, month, year for quick comparisons.
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User data... like new accounts being created, and individual stats, like thread creation and post creation over time. Reports like "How many unique users posted per day" and "How many posts per user, per day" would be super handy. Helps us to understand content generation on a user by user basis, and over time. How categories are busy at different times. Seeing individual users' posting volume by day and over time, would be great. Charting individual users' activity over the years helps us understand posting patterns.
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Time of day data. Data over time, at different times of day. By site, category, user, etc. And time of month, or time of week. There is so much "content activity" data that would be informative.
I think the biggest thing is understanding that we (at MangoLassi) are very focused on content creation, rather than site navigation. We care about total hits, but we get that stat from CloudFlare in a really industry-standard way. And we care about unique visitors for sure, but again, CF tracks that for us, too. We really want to know what only the database can tell us, what is being stored, and when, and by whom.
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Will NodeBB support 731,000 posts?MangoLassi has many fewer posts but all of their posts were made from NodeBB, not imported. So while the "size" isn't so big, the traffic is very high. MongoDB and a VPS instance and no performance issues. Just coming up on 30K posts, but very active.
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YouTube Embedding Broken in 0.5.3It's a core plugin, not separately maintained, and it didn't break here. I've not seen any issues with the maintained, core plugins and they are just as likely to break as plugins as they are as part of the mainline code when they are maintained by the same people
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Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?@julian said in Which is better NodeBB or Discourse?:
No knocking the guy when good content presents itself.
I read and listened to all of his stuff in the StackOverlow creation days. Lots of good thoughts back then. That was a lot of where I did my early pondering on community and forum behaviour, trends, metrics, and such, and why I was able to advice Spiceworks so heavily to keep them from disaster... to which they totally ignored me and did everything that research, industry knowledge, Jeff, and I had documented made no sense to do.