sees NodeBB being run by the Antergos Linux distro site
"Man, I should run NodeBB for my next project. I doubt that one theme I like is even being updated anymore, though."

Is it possible/generally acceptable to create and maintain "plugins" to modify specific elements of a theme as opposed to forking?

I misread the conversation. I thought attempting to delete the account was throwing an error, but I think he was agreeing that attempting to create a duplicate account manually was causing an error.

@PitaJ They both exist, but because the system doesn't generate a link using the ID it's going to display the first result of a query on that name when trying to look at the profile, which would be the original profile.

That's likely also the cause of the error when deleting - it's unlikely there is any allowance for processing such a request when queying the DB returns multiple results.

The solution is going to be to remove the second user from mongo or redis manually because there's no allowance in NodeBB for dealing with this situation (since it was never supposed to occur). I'm not familiar enough with either to provide a safe command to use, but several of you are. Essentially he just wants to delete an entire user entry based on a specific user number. If one of you could provide the steps for that process I'm sure it will resolve the issue.

@teh_g I reckon it's not currently on the table because there is site functionality tied up in the themes. For example, if you change themes you'll notice all unsupported widgets are dumped in the control panel. There isn't a standard for widget areas (that's observed, at least) even between pre-packaged themes.

I'm guessing that's not the only difference, either, but after my initial setup I didn't really look into it too much.

@pichalite I know there's an optional sidebar by default that you can toggle to a pinned state, but the header bar is still there. After thinking about it, it's pretty obvious "rotating" the header 90 degrees would be pretty involved considering all the elements it contains. I'll just have to rebuild it.

@yariplus Nice! That's actually pretty straightforward.

Is it difficult to add widget areas to a theme's TPL files?

@julian Are there any plans to incorporate optional tiling in Persona? I ask because I've noticed it seems to have broader support and more TPL files for widgetizing.

So after clearing all local data, deleting the session entries via CLI, restarting the server, etc...

I noticed that when I navigated to my forums this morning, I did not use the secure protocol URL I had in my config.json.

ERROR
invalid-session

I'm not using Apache or Nginx. Tried running db.objects.update({_key: "config"}, {$set: {cookieDomain: ""}}); and restarting, it didn't have any effect. I'm on Cloud9, installed using the tutorial here.

@pichalite Something like

I wish I could get my Gmail to look this good.

Any tips for a vertical menu as a side bar?

@Apple-Pro Found that out the hard way this afternoon when I reinstalled using this guide, but I wasn't sure if it was Cloud9 or I'd just done something wrong. Good to know I didn't Break All the Things.

I'm curious as well. I asked because just 'testing" them seems kind of unsafe (being brand new to node.js and "modern" databases) and has caused me to have to reinstall a few times due to not knowing how to scrub them out by hand.

I've noticed a lot of plugins here in this forum and on GitHub haven't seen any love in quite some time. Are they all still working or are they abandoned/on hold?

I just hacked my way through a very ugly series of install attempts before finally getting it "working". I wish i'd seen this topic sooner.