@yariplus thanks. That has given me a ton of areas to research / grep and try out.

Ok, So if we were to modify code, would it be core code?

Just to get a start, can you point out where the code for this would be so I can start reading it?

I'm trying to develop a newspaper/blog type theme for NodeBB. Its been about a year since I've looked at the code /templates and have what might be a very basic question.

On the 'categories' home page, using Lavendar / Persona themes as an example, I see that the category is displayed and the latest topic.

What if I wanted to make the display like this:

Category:
-- 10 Latest Topics

I see

                                               <!-- BEGIN posts -->
....
                                                <!-- END posts -->

However, it appears that there is only one latest post here.

Without modifying the code, is there a way for the theme to specify that it wants an X number of topics. Also, is there a way for the theme to specify that it only wants the topic meta and not the actual full post perhaps?

@Jenkler said in NodeBB - Getting ads working:

It world be nice with a plugin for this. Like the Adsence plugin but for DFP

I'm working on it as of today.

Well, as soon as I can figure out the hooks and how to load from github.

Try removing the SPDY support and see if it works. I had to disable SPDY with SSL to get it to towork.

@pichalite noticed a slight discrepancy between the login and the register windows.

The login window has the social icons in the white block under the login button.

The register window has the social icons outside the white box

I'd personally like to have the social icons above the login / register button to make it more obvious that these can be used to sign in. (Not sure what the UI guidelines are for these things..)

Take a look at a wordpress plugin called Sabai Discuss. Has some really usable options to turn a site into a Q&A site.

@kps - I suspect that is the issue. I don't have an active nodebb instance right now. In the middle of a few things. HOpefully resolve those issues and get back to nodebb over the weekend.

Guys,

Have a quick question. Do tags have a timestamp on them in the backend?

One of my new feature requirements is spotting trending tags and some sort of re-organisation of the tagging system to perhaps give people an alternative way to navigate the forum.

Just curious...

@kps - FYI, have been off nodebb for the last three weeks. Will get back to it with the latest codebase and will verify. Can you let me know if you Facebook app is published or was it in demo / sandbox mode?

@julian said:

We really ought to transition it over to our SaaS services. Where do I send the bill?

And where will users find you if, god forbid something goes down? All eggs one basket and all that...

Apologies! I thought you meant "this forum" as in "this forum software" and not specifically the site.

My build is complicated as I wanted to test scalability.

Some info about my specific build (and why redis+mongo) can be found here - https://community.nodebb.org/topic/5920/scaling-nodebb-on-google-cloud-is-this-approach-correct/3

What sort of OS do you host on? Have preferences for a webserver?

The install guide is quite comprehensive - https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/

FYI - I am on a centos 7 based instance, with Nginx as the SSL front end / proxy and multiple nodebb instances for different sites. The backend is redis + mongodb. About as complicated as it can get.

Ok. Will try and see if this improves the render / load.

Do you mean that simply adding the Javascript / HTML code in the HTML Widget does not work?

Is it a must to use "require" on the html widget for external Javascript which is needed on the client side?

@psychobunny do you think this is what is causing my adsense related problems?

The see all chats link on the upper right chat menu results in a unknown error on the page.

Was expecting to see a history of chats.

Verified on this and master 0.7.1 running persona.

https://community.nodebb.org/chats

Agree, just have to get used to the differences between what you have in NodeBB and PHP temptate engines like Smarty and vBulletin's built in engine.

@psychobunny - could you look at this issue? I suspect that the ad block (more likely the javascript part of the block) is causing some server side or client side rendering / blocking?

Theoretically, seems impossible as the API call just sends out JSON ... but I suspect something after the JSON data is returned causes a stall or timeout on the android client.

Clueless on how to debug further.

Thank you! Just what I needed to add some more functionality. Will study this a little bit more.. could open up some interesting possibilities.

I'd like to target a specific post in the topic.tpl or partials/topic/post.tpl template.

I can get the first post with !post.index

How can I show a banner or insert some html below the 2nd post in any thread?