I am trying to migrate a huge WordPress community to NBB instance. But issue is it is not working properly. In digitalocean, after proper installation (I followed all the tutorials) it says "server is not responding". I am trying to use a special domain like .club for NBB. But when I try to install NBB with a .com or .net domain, it is working properly. Can someone clarify this issue?

Also are there any paid themes available for NBB? Majestic V4 is not on sale any more.

Hmm, seems a nice idea! It appears to be better than having multiple plugins to embed content from media sites like YouTube, flicker, Wikipedia and all. I could find an embedly plugin in the repo, but it has some problems like displaying embedly copyright and all. Oembed seems a really good and viable option for entertainment communities based on NBB.

Discourse have badges inbuilt right?

Hmm, I hate mobile chat app. They forced me to install it, by blocking my messages in the main app. Well ya FB will around long enough. Google plus never made it in to q grand scale because of a clunky interface and also reluctance of users to try it. Unlike developers, end users are always happy using the one they are used to. That's why whenever FB makes a design change, users make countless status updates saying that FB is messing up.

@psychobunny , GO will not be switching anytime soon, at least for some years to come. Their version of phpbb is heavily customized to meet their ends. They won't risk putting their community through such a big maintenance hazard.

@esiao on a side note, I really like this theme tending to a blog like approach. It feels different as compared to some traditional themes.

You can name this Galaxy theme, since it started from your galaxy forum. Just saying

@esiao to start with, you can share,if u do not mind, how to invert the position of notifications bar from top to left side. Lol I really like left side notification bar. By the way minimalism theme is also good.

@a_5mith It does not matter whether FB is awful or good. A fair amount of people really dislike FB, a bigger portion especially students make use of it like a daily part of their life. The point is they are the second most popular site in the internet. So logically their operation model is successful one.

Your theme is really good. Will you be making it open source. I know they are simple modifications to the base theme, but its good enough to be uploaded to github or npm repository. Nice, infact awesome work.

Now that's good news for me. Out of curiosity, which is your plugin?

Ohh that's good news, because I am used to php that it is really hard for me to make any serious changes in NBB, so I will have to take some time before I can try nbb. Vanilla and I guess Flatrum also, will be easier to modify. NBB has a learning curve.

Good luck

No, Flatrum is Ember.js. I don't know about Esotalk, but its development is retarded these days. Also Flatrum will debut next year only. So long way to go for it.

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/open-sourcing-twitter-emoji-for-everyone
Any plan to make use of twitter emoji into the core of NBB, replacing the current set of Smileys. Wordpress has already announced their collaboration with this open source project, I think.

Yup, in terms of looks, I can only think of 2 other forum apps other than NBB, namely discourse and vanilla.But a forum need not always be about looks, Some of the heavily popular forums still use, normal vbulletin (may be due to investment) phpbb and all. functionality, ease of use and familiarity comes first. Remember Facebook in its early days?

Ya even more sad is that, their new release is a complete rebuild that none of their current plugins nor themes will work properly. It is more like going back to square one. Even established PHPBB communities cannot update due to this.

@julian restored I thought people wouldn't be interested. So you checked their new release?

After 6 years PHPBB has released their new update codenamed Ascraeus ( https://www.phpbb.com/about/launch/ ). With all the new apps like NodeBB, Discourse and Vanilla (not that new), guess PHPBB felt the need to get back in on development. The forum has been completely rewritten, in fact none of the old plugins work any more and they have embarked on a course to release official plugins to go with the new Ascraeus release.

And I was thinking, since majority of bulletin board share goes to PHPBB ( second to VBulletin), are they trying to prevent current forums running PHPBB to prevent migrating to newer alternatives??
For example, there are forums with 1-2 million members active members like Gaia Online which makes use of PHPBB 3.0 even to this date What ya think?

@a_5mith any updates from Bentael on this plugin, yet?