@eeeee said in Do you have limited or full access to your host?:

it does seem younger people are preferred as coders, but I don't get why?

Where I work all the devs are 50+ years old. And honestly, given the stuff we do I wouldn't trust a 20 something dev with it anyway. (Complex accounting software/ERP software that has to meet regulatory conditions).

These guys have been at it for 30+ years and actually helped write some of the original modules (before the CEO pulled them away from the company that writes the software we customize). And their knowledge is VAST, hell the lead engineer actually has a degree in forensics accounting.

@phenomlab if he's a dino, I must be a grandfather at the ripe old age of 25....

@[email protected] While I generally agree with you, meetings like this tend to require tooling that I personally just haven't seen in open-source meeting software solutions yet. Not to mention, depending on the interest in the meeting it's entirely possible that something open source hosted on someone server might become overloaded and fall over, something that is unlikely for commercial software solutions.

@baris Thanks, updated and everything is working now.

So I want to start off with saying that notification on @mentions hasn't been working at all on our forum in public chat rooms. But it appears that the situation is now worse as specifically mentioning a user in public chat causes the forum to completely crash and reboot with the following error message:

2023-08-25T01:29:33.228Z [4567/1686462] - error: uncaughtException: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'displayname')
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'displayname')
    at Object.Mentions.notifyMessage [as method] (.../nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-mentions/library.js:195:73)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async Object.fireActionHook [as action] (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:211:4)
    at async Hooks.fire (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:132:17) {"date":"Fri Aug 25 2023 01:29:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)","error":{},"exception":true,"os":{"loadavg":[0.92,0.71,0.42],"uptime":784611.42},"process":{"argv":["/usr/bin/node",".../nodebb/app.js"],"cwd":".../nodebb","execPath":"/usr/bin/node","gid":0,"memoryUsage":{"arrayBuffers":22579632,"external":30825859,"heapTotal":125403136,"heapUsed":109508072,"rss":198705152},"pid":1686462,"uid":0,"version":"v16.20.2"},"stack":"TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'displayname')\n    at Object.Mentions.notifyMessage [as method] (.../nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-mentions/library.js:195:73)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)\n    at async Object.fireActionHook [as action] (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:211:4)\n    at async Hooks.fire (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:132:17)","trace":[{"column":73,"file":".../nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-mentions/library.js","function":"Object.Mentions.notifyMessage [as method]","line":195,"method":"notifyMessage [as method]","native":false},{"column":5,"file":"node:internal/process/task_queues","function":"processTicksAndRejections","line":96,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":4,"file":".../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js","function":"async Object.fireActionHook [as action]","line":211,"method":"fireActionHook [as action]","native":false},{"column":17,"file":".../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js","function":"async Hooks.fire","line":132,"method":"fire","native":false}]}
2023-08-25T01:29:33.230Z [4567/1686462] - error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'displayname')
    at Object.Mentions.notifyMessage [as method] (.../nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-mentions/library.js:195:73)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async Object.fireActionHook [as action] (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:211:4)
    at async Hooks.fire (.../nodebb/src/plugins/hooks.js:132:17)
2023-08-25T01:29:33.231Z [4567/1686462] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT/SIGQUIT) Initialised.
2023-08-25T01:29:33.235Z [4567/1686462] - info: [app] Web server closed to connections.
2023-08-25T01:29:33.239Z [4567/1686462] - info: [app] Live analytics saved.
2023-08-25T01:29:33.256Z [4567/1686462] - info: [app] Database connection closed.
2023-08-25T01:29:33.257Z [4567/1686462] - info: [app] Shutdown complete.
[cluster] Child Process (1686462) has exited (code: 1, signal: null)
[cluster] Spinning up another process...

I'm happy to do as much debugging as needed to get this fixed and provide whatever information is needed. Below is the list of plugins we're using.

Active plugins:
        * @nodebb/[email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)

@julian Unread is my preferred when signed in to a NodeBB (or Flarum) forum. While recent is my preferred view when I'm not signed in. Probably are carry over of working with Flarum forums for such a long time, at this point I very much dislike seeing the category listing as the main page and prefer to see content out the gate.

@phenomlab I understand up writing a WAF rule that bypass bot fight mode for Googles ASN and Bings ASN so long as the user agent matches.

This works out because both Microsoft and Google use a different ASN for services like bing and Google search, than what they use for their cloud service offerings.

When I test from my modem itself I have 1205/1211, but due to a shitty AP/Router combo in between I actually end up getting around 940/960. I'm hoping to replace that mess with SPF+ and a good firewall in the next year or so.

@oplik0 said in .zip and .mov TLDs:

just a month later, let Squarespace announce that they're killing (selling) Google Domains

They sold the Domain Registrar, they still own the TLD side of the business.

@crazycells It's a massive security risk along with .mov

We've actually straight up blocked .zip and .mov TLDs where I work. And I know a lot of other companies have/are doing the same because of the risks it poses.

@phenomlab Personally I'm sticking to just Prism.js, It just has WAY more language support and because of autoloader at a much smaller overall size. And at the end of the day unhighlighted code blocks are still monospaced and formatted correctly (which was not my experience with highlightjs)

@phenomlab I just edited the post I made, but someone found a way to use HighlightJS to detect, and Prism for highlight. Somewhat kind of old but I think it would still work.

https://github.com/PrismJS/prism/issues/1313#issuecomment-1150566378

@phenomlab Prism.JS doesn't have autodetect, so you for sure have to define a language for code highlighting (slightly annoying).

I didn't use the CDN (built the JS on their site along with the CSS), and I downloaded all the component files required for autoloader to work to my server to be served up via a Caddy for a specific path.

I believe the default for Autoloader is also to attempt to load the language files from your server (or at least it was for me) but that might just be based on where the JS get's loaded from.

So, in my case the script tag is just:

<script defer src="/extra/prism.min.js"></script>

And then in custom CSS I did (I need to figure out how to load different styles depending on dark vs light skins):

@import url("/extra/prism-light.css");

And finally for the custom JS section I did:

$(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) {
	$(document).ready(function() {
		Prism.highlightAll();
	});
});
 
$(window).on('action:posts.loaded', function(data) {
	$(document).ready(function() {
		Prism.highlightAll();
	});
});

$(window).on('action:composer.preview', function(data) {
    $(document).ready(function() {
        Prism.highlightAll();
    });
});

For highlighting to work I use things like:

```dotnet
class Test {
    public string Test() {
        return "Hello";
    }
}
.```

There still seems to be an issue with highlighting immediately after posting something, so I think we're still missing an event hook.

Edit: Final note hopefully. It appears that someone figured out how to use Highlightjs to autodetect the language, and then pass that info to Prism for actual highlighting, might be worth looking into.

https://github.com/PrismJS/prism/issues/1313#issuecomment-1150566378

I actually ended up trying this out myself because I've been very disappointed with the Markdown Extension code highlighting (not highlighting anything past the first code block, creating weird formatting issues, etc.) and it's worked out great. I ended up downloading prism.js from their site with the autoload extension, which means that my forum supports every language that Prism does with minimal JS load.

@julian For getting OG images dynamically for a NodeBB forum I don't fully understand why Puppeteer would be needed. Wouldn't an image library (similar to PHP GD Image) be able to generate images? And then you'd just take information already existing from the post (like title, author, author avatar, etc.) and insert it into an image template of sorts?

@baris If no email, user accounts are allowed now yeah skipping them would be required otherwise the SendGrid API breaks.

@baris I think I may have found the issue, I ended up console logging the data.map function to console.log({email: entry.email, custom_fields: fields}) and what I discovered is that somehow, some way, a couple of users exist that have zero email associated with them. Which would in fact cause the 400 error I'm experiencing.

Deleting those user accounts (no content or posts) resolved the issue.

@baris Where would I set that? I don't see any options for it in the emailer plugin settings in ACP nor in the Email settings.

I will note though that when I click on "View list in SendGrid" it does take me to the correct list.

@baris Not much extra information I'm afraid:

2023-07-17T02:14:53.808Z [4568/3630129] - warn: [plugins/emailer-sendgrid] Unable to synchronize.
Error: Bad Request
    at node_modules/@sendgrid/client/src/classes/client.js:146:29
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

I wonder if maybe SendGrid changed something in their API that's breaking things?

Crashing again:

2023-07-17T01:53:21.480Z [4568/3629500] - info: [plugins/emailer-sendgrid] Synchronizing...
2023-07-17T01:53:22.284Z [4568/3629500] - error: uncaughtException: err is not defined
ReferenceError: err is not defined
    at Emailer.marketing.synchronize (/root/sysadminszone/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emailer-sendgrid/index.js:424:70)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) {"date":"Mon Jul 17 2023 01:53:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)","error":{},"exception":true,"os":{"loadavg":[1.61,0.56,0.25],"uptime":3927883.26},"process":{"argv":["/usr/bin/node","/root/sysadminszone/nodebb/app.js"],"cwd":"/root/sysadminszone/nodebb","execPath":"/usr/bin/node","gid":0,"memoryUsage":{"arrayBuffers":19707881,"external":27309238,"heapTotal":101437440,"heapUsed":97141448,"rss":171921408},"pid":3629500,"uid":0,"version":"v16.20.1"},"stack":"ReferenceError: err is not defined\n    at Emailer.marketing.synchronize (/root/sysadminszone/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emailer-sendgrid/index.js:424:70)\n    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)","trace":[{"column":70,"file":"/root/sysadminszone/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emailer-sendgrid/index.js","function":"Emailer.marketing.synchronize","line":424,"method":"synchronize","native":false},{"column":null,"file":null,"function":"runMicrotasks","line":null,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":5,"file":"node:internal/process/task_queues","function":"processTicksAndRejections","line":96,"method":null,"native":false}]}
2023-07-17T01:53:22.285Z [4568/3629500] - error: ReferenceError: err is not defined
    at Emailer.marketing.synchronize (/root/sysadminszone/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emailer-sendgrid/index.js:424:70)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
2023-07-17T01:53:22.286Z [4568/3629500] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
2023-07-17T01:53:22.291Z [4568/3629500] - info: [app] Web server closed to connections.
2023-07-17T01:53:22.307Z [4568/3629500] - info: [app] Live analytics saved.