I started working with Discourse and nodebb about the same time and I have seen a clear difference in how both platforms have matured, and as well as missing out.

Discourse went from Jeff's Forum Software to a real product for others. In making this change, they have built IMO far better setup, worked with cloud providers to have one-click options, forked and brought in-house popular plugins to be maintained, broke out of the 'how i want it' to 'you want it, we will build it'. Speed is acceptable. Styling feels limited. Mobile is positive.

NodeBB still has all the great things that caught my attention in 2014, but it STILL suffers from the same problems I had then. Out of date documentation. Documentation migration. Limited integration with cloud providers. High profile Plugins Abandoned. I love the speed. The mobile implementation is incredible. But I find myself having the same frustrations I had nearly FIVE YEARS ago.

While Discourse isn't perfect, they have built and matured as a platform, in both polish and reliability. When I get the 'New Version' for Discourse, I am never scared to click that button. I can't say the same about NodeBB. Nodebb still feels like most other open source software, exciting and interesting, but not reliable enough to make me jump in.

Another good comparison in maturity would be Ghost. I started using Ghost and NodeBB at the same time. Polish, feature additions and ease of deployment have all been things you can easily see that Ghost has improved over time. I don't see that same platform maturity with Nodebb.

I was a huge proponent of NodeBB a couple years ago thinking that NodeBB and Discourse were A1 and A2 options for anyone looking to launch a forum.

Having a large project coming up and looking at including a forum, I instantly thought of using NodeBB as we are using Ghost as our CMS for our main page. Having setup a test server, I was disappointed in how messy NodeBB has become with the majority of the plugins I installed not working. Features I would assumed would have been integrated or become official plugins largely aren't.

I still think NodeBB is a great core, but was hoping that it would have matured at the same rate as Discourse the last couple years.

nevermind. I guess actually reading threads would help.

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/1436/register-login-links-do-not-disappear-when-logged-in#10690

Looking more at running NodeBB for a product it would be super helpful to be able to mark a specific post in a thread as "Best Answer" and then via a tag or something mark the thread of containing an answer. IP.Board does this pretty well. Figure it would be something worth exploring.

Since NodeBB is on the cutting edge I figured it would be a great place to have a plugin that displays WebM files in hope of replacing animated GIFs.

4Chan just allowed WebM, which you can read about here, http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan

Between the quality and file size, it is pretty amazing what you can do with a modern technology.

What version did you install? If you are using the latest then there will be bugs but try to use a more stable version.

I installed 1.5.3. Since it is a point release stablity shouldn't be an issue.

"matured at the same rate as Discourse" <-- Could you pleas specify exactly what you mean with this!

Discourse has really listened to their audience and features that the community wanted they either caved, built it themselves or if a community plugin becomes popular, it is forked and maintain by Discourse. I feel Jeff and company has made a decision that the core is strong and by pulling some community plugins they provide a seamless and maintained product.

Its easy to complain, better to help out instead. Be more specific about what features you need. Hey, its opensource

So is Discourse and Vanilla (kinda). Open source doesn't magically make it better.

"majority of the plugins I installed not working." <-- Please specify the plugins.

nodebb-plugin-emailer-ses - Settings page doesn't load.
nodebb-plugin-ns-spoiler - Spoiler reveal button doesn't work. Causes formatting issues in the post.
nodebb-plugin-btn-spoilers - Doesn't work.
nodebb-plugin-youtube-embed - videos don't play. formatting all messed up.

NodeBB is a fascinating project that has great potential, BUT, I am fearful that it is going a similar route that of Vanilla. A paid SaaS version with all the really cool features with all the bells and whistles and then a bastard opensource version with community maintained features where half of them have been abandoned. I rather have a solid foundation of core team maintained plugins (if any at all) over a house of cards that can collapse at anytime or have to maintain.

Works fine for my deployment that I just setup.

@CaptainK Sadly users will do the easiest thing and teaching them sadly isn't going to work. Would be nice to have a setting that limits how deep quotes can go.

@pitaj said in nodebb-plugin-emailer-ses? Not working:

There is an SES preset in the admin panel under email settings. Maybe you should try that as well?

That is what I ended up using.

Currently using a profanity filter that just puts [censorsed] for anything that is triggered. while this is good, it would be extremely helpful to understand what the original text was for moderation purposes. Is that a plugin that allows mods to see what the original post was while still censoring for normal viewers?

@Nicolas having this issue with a clean install. any ideas?

Tue, 07 May 2019 18:45:38 GMT hsts deprecated The "setIf" parameter is deprecated. Refer to the documentation to see how to set the header conditionally. at node_modules/helmet/index.js:33:28
2019-05-07T18:45:38.638Z [4567/10957] - warn: [deprecated] requiring core modules with `module.parent.require('./src/emitter')` is deprecated. Please use `require.main.require("./src/<module_name>")` instead.
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-embed/plugin/nodebb.js:8:31
2019-05-07T18:45:38.639Z [4567/10957] - error: Error: Cannot find module './src/emitter'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Module.require.main.require (/var/www/nodebb/require-main.js:8:10)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-embed/plugin/nodebb.js:8:31
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-embed/plugin/nodebb.js:44:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
2019-05-07T18:45:38.639Z [4567/10957] - warn: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
2019-05-07T18:45:38.671Z [4567/10957] - info: Routes added

@Nicolas strange. I installed it via the plugin manager

@omega said in [nodebb-plugin-ns-embed] NS Embed:

@shinyidol I'm getting the identical output as your posted log.

I upgraded a clean 1.12.1 nodeBB to 1.12.2 and tried to install this plugin, and it's not appearing. Used plugin manager too.

Got this error

2019-05-20T14:40:46.012Z [4567/11196] - warn: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-ns-embed

@Nicolas can you provide any help?