Hello there, after some time i want to take a second attempt to start a successful forum. My idea was the following: A forum that allows for uncomplicated communication of ideas and allows users to sell their ideas to other foum users. I set up my page with the help of a friend: my forum I didnt take into account the problems to get the ball rolling; means I have no users Note that there is no payment method right now, it is prettmuch only a normal forum. Now to what i have planned to be the "second attempt" version: In the region where i want to start, there is a company called Tobit that developed a software named "chanys". One reason for me to use it is the adaption in my region, id guess atleast 70% of the people in a distance of 20 km have this app on their smartphone. It is also adapted further i think they have serveral million downloads of their app. It has imo also alot of features that will be helpful to my project for example: -Accounting -verification payment Note: the "cayns" project is also open source. "Cayns" offers also a website building tool to easily implement their features "chanys". My easy hack (that describes my lvl of programming skills) would be to do an iframe onto my forum ^^. I know thats really bad (and it doesnt work without changing settings). What are other ways to make a better MVP? Thank you!

@Topper Your commitment to open source and offering a reasonable compensation package is commendable. I hope you find a skilled developer who aligns with your vision.

@Topper unfortunately not.

@Topper Always happy to help. Good luck !

Hi, i want to use user verification on my plattform since i plan to do transactions with ideas. The verification has to happen in a way that a contract would work with the loggedin users. I would like to keep that process simple but safe. What are ways to do that?

If it exhibits here only, then I have a gut feeling it is related to csrf-sync. If NodeBB restarts, it could be that the valid csrf token is stored in memory and is lost Edit: No... I just tested that locally and it worked fine. Hm.

I mean people talking like "Have you heard of the forum where you can offer technical and businessideas to someone else without paying to get on the site". If you already have some users kindly ask them to tell friends about it. But yes, if you aim for generating users, SEO is your friend and you could use AdSense or Google Ads.

@julian phentomlabs advice worked for my question, for the launch I will get help from a friend that has experience with hosting stuff ^^

Not really, no... It just means that you might have a running NodeBB instance you can't stop (short of running something like kill)

thank you!

@julian thank you for your answer. I agree that stripe is probably better siuted for this, the only thing is, that here in germany the usage of paypal is much bigger than credit cards, which is the primary payment method for stripe i think.

@Biff Thank you very much!

Ok thank you very much! I just love that this is possible with nodebb and all the contributers!

I am trying to understand where is the user data from the installation guide stored? Since my MongoDB /bin /db folder is empty i am wondering where it is stored. ^^ I know this is basic but i am trying to understand nodebb better. Is the maybe something written or a video explaining the basics?`I dont really know where to start...

@baris I'm able to fix it. I switched to v16, deleted the pidfile, then start nodebb again. Thanks!

Thank you very much! I was able to use the Admin user that was created in this authentification

@Topper Sorry, finally I figured out how to look at the database ! I just switched to PostgreSQL and used Beekeeper to actually see it. Thanks !