Hello guys,

I run my site for 2.5 years, and the user's number was increasing gradually. However, I feel something still needs to be done.

For example, in my site, after the user registered, they would post a thread to ask some mathematical problem. Most of the time I will answer it. Then the user just leave. This end up with a kind of personal site: they ask questions, then I reply. This is my site's situation. But what I really want is a forum: they ask questions, then they reply. Two main reasons of such situation might be that

1. they dont know the answer.
2. they dont want to answer.

A member points/Reputation trade system might be a good solution, as least to handle the item 2. In this system, you can

• gain member points/Reputation by posting;
• gain member points/Reputation by online time;
• get paid member points/Reputation by answering other's thread;
• pay member points/Reputation to others who answer your questions, the more you paid, the more comprehensive answer you can get;
• get honor pedal once your points/Reputation reach to certain level;
• have other rights once your points/Reputation reach to certain level;
• ...

In face, it looks like the reputation system in the nodebb. To achieve this, one possible way is

• either to improve the reputation system comprehensively. Right now it only increases +1 by upvoting, decreases -1 by downvoting. In this plugin, it adds another way by posting.
• or to build another member points/Reputation system in the nodebb

I believe such member points/Reputation trade system would boost the user's impulse to interact more with other users. What do you think?

Thanks for effort of nodebb team!

@abhinov-singh It works at my site. What did you put in your CSS?

Thanks for the effort!

@Nicolas Thank you for your work!

Does it work for nodebb 1.7.4? This plugin looks impressive! and is it possible to add the award as follows (below the user's image)?

Typically I use invitation register function. In the latest nodebb (1.13.2), the invitation register disappear in https://yourweb/users. Even in http://yourweb/admin/manage/users, I cannot use invitation register.

@aya Prefect! works!

Need to install java, solr, and connect with nodeBB, deactivate DBsearch~

It also looks good to add several lines to show how to install redis..

Step 4: Log into your new Droplet and install some necessary software to run NodeBB and harden your server

sudo apt install redis-server

Above DOES NOT work (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1112053/ubuntu-18-04-update-stuck-at-setting-up-redis-server-54-0-9-1ubuntu0-1 ), the following works:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt -y install redis-server

More details:

This is due to the invitation numbers settings in ACP. Looks the admin's invitation numbers is limited, which is identical with regular users. But it should be not limited. It looks like a bug.

Perfect,

I just upload that xml to Baidu. The URL's number is within my expectation. Thanks Julian.

Where is it?

Or, we can add a Switch, to display page views counted by guests or registered users. What do you think? I prefer the first one. It is also the default setting for previous nodebb version. The latter one is the default setting for the latest nodebb.

I agree that at current version, guest views are not counted. It decreases seriously the page views number. Sometimes I distribute my link to some chatting group, all the viewers are guests and they access my website by phone (without logging), the page views should increase suddenly. But now, it does not increase at all.

For example, last year, every time I distributed my link to somewhere, page views increased from 0 to 1000-2000, and most of them are contributed by guests (phone), but now it increased from 0 to 20 or 30 something....

I think page views should be counted by another way.

I am using redis and the data is stored in dump.rdb. Everytime when I want to backup this file, I need to ssh to the server. Is it possible to achieve this in ACP? I think it is a good feature. Or, is it possible to send this file every other week to some Email address?

@julian U understand Chinese hoho I though ur a Korean before

@sharonyue said in Installation problem:

npm cache clean --force

I install a new test server and run into this problem again...I dont know where the problem come from but the command above fixed it.

How about we fix that in nodebb code? or is it coming from my OS? I using ubuntu 18.04. I dont know..

Is it possible to count user's online time? I remember that I asked such question but I did not get any results by searching this forum..

Yes I found that https://github.com/joe1chen/nodebb-plugin-search-elasticsearch It looks it is not updated lately

@gotwf Yes. My forum is in Chinese so I must use solr. dbsearch does not support Chinese as you know so I use solr. And I found the searching results is satisfactory. Why do you use solr? The drawback of solr is just it costs too much memory. But I can accept that.

After a very heavy work. Finally I made it work:

1. Ubuntu 18 enables ipv6 as default, please follow this instruction as written to disable it. link text

2. Download an old version of solr (I am using solr-5.3.0), I verified solr-8 does not work. Run it. Here is the settings:

It should be noted that I am not sure if the first step is necessary. Since I did it, but it does not work. Then I downgrade solr, it works.

Hope it helps the others, especially those who are using the latest Ubuntu and Solr. Have fun!!

Updates: we dont need to do anything. We dont even need to install the plugin. It is there. All the emojis were moved to another server. Magic!