Community

@baris It would be great to add a left side menu to the persona theme, like harmony

In order to have more space to read the content, I think it is necessary to hide the mobile menu when scrolling down. When scrolling up, it should appear again.

@NodeHam said in Best post voting plugin:

Yes, the user can sort but is there a way to have most upvoted posts be at the top by default when a post is made specifically to get votes?

I think you are looking for a plugin similar to
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-post-voting
But for nodebb

@baris said in Problem with the dropdown-menu in the first post:

Does it happen on this forum too?

In this forum, only 50% of the screen is available when scrolling down

@julian great job! It might also be worth updating this promising and underrated plugin.
https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-telegram-notifications#telegram-notifications

I think that the right panel is superfluous and the header should be returned. Or create a setting to select two options.
Another great option is to add a sidebar to persona, and set the search in the middle of the header to encourage users to use the search more often (The visible search bar increases traffic and time spent on the site)

@julian said in December 2022 Design Preview (Harmony Theme):

The biggest change is the elimination of the top bar. It may cause consternation in some, but we feel that sidebars are the way forward

I think the ideal user-frendly design for nodebb should be like this.

SocialV | Responsive Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard Template

@Eminent said in Headless Integration with Nodebb:

How would you make it so your user registration form on your frontend connects to nodebb? This is where you make your account on the front end and can login to it either from there or with the forum login. Logging in from one also logs you into the other. Is there an easy way to achieve this? I tried using Auth0, but that's not really the kinda thing I want. I suppose in this case, I'd want to connect the nodebb login system itself with my front end so I can register for accounts from there?

Do you want to have a single sign-on for multiple platforms?

@phenomlab said in MongoDB 6.X at installation:

@volanar said in MongoDB 6.X at installation:

It's absurd that postgres is slower than mongodb

Agreed. It isn't - period.

In general, the performance of nodebb can be compared with various databases if nodebb was written in C ++ or Rust, and not in slow nodejs. The slowest here is nodebb.
Databases are ten times more productive than the platform. What is the point of discussing which database is faster?

@julian said in MongoDB 6.X at installation:

@ayyilmaz Not anything that you'll really notice. It could be that yes, psql will be a couple ms slower here and there, but the bottleneck has never been the database, it's usually been the browser or server-side code.

As it turns out, people who write databases have a really vested interest in making the database really fast

postgres is many times more productive than mongodb, consumes much less RAM and takes up much less disk space. And with the release of version 15, it's out of the question that postgres is slow. It's absurd that postgres is slower than mongodb

Cool! The entire technology stack has been updated as soon as possible. It remains to remove jqwery and it will be perfect!

For test

Meilisearch Sandbox

@athedoor said in Broadcast messages:

@crazycells I would like send via chat the same private messagge to many user.
I have seen than I can create a room with more users but in this case it isn't a broadcast message (one-many) but a chat group (many-many)
Is there a solution to implement a one-many mode?

Unfortunately, this is not possible. Nodebb is in trouble with the chat functionality. Everything is at the initial level there

@oplik0 said in [nodebb-plugin-meilisearch] use MeiliSearch as a full-text search backend:

Meilisearch for NodeBB

https://github.com/oplik0/nodebb-plugin-meilisearch

This plugin allows you to use Meilisearch as search backend instead of the database or Solr (see this topic for why some want to switch)

Installation

Install via plugins page in the ACP or run this command in NodeBB folder:

npm install nodebb-plugin-meilisearch

Configuration

1. install this plugin via ACP or by running npm install nodebb-plugin-meilisearch
2. Activate in the plugins page (note: make sure dbsearch plugin is disabled)
3. Rebuild and restart NodeBB
4. Check that the plugin successfully connected to Meilisearch and adjust the connection settings in /admin/plugins/meilisearch if necessary.
5. Meilisearch should start indexing all posts as soon as it connects for the first time, but if that didn't happen you can start reindexing from the ACP page
6. Adjust other search settings as you see fit. Defaults should be good enough for most use cases though.

Notes

• This plugin requires a Meilisearch instance or the same server or somewhere else your NodeBB instance can access
• This plugin conflicts with other search plugins and will not work if nodebb-plugin-dbsearch is active
• While it should work fine, note that it's still not well tested. User beware

Thank you. This is one of the most needed plugins, just few people understand it yet

@phenomlab said in Please take our survey on the Persona theme... and maybe win a t-shirt! :

I agree here. I use the PM function on https://sudonix.com so that users can provide me with sensitive information they'd rather not post in the forums. It also provides the additional compliance that the data they provide is on my server, and not elsewhere in the cloud

You misunderstood me. I am only for my preservation of information on my servers. But if you separate the chat from the core, then you can develop the chat not only as a separate chat, which is already fine, but also as an integration plugin with other platforms that can be installed on your server. And you can import data to a third-party platform without losing content. No third-party services. That is, if there is a chat plugin, but it can simultaneously integrate with third-party platforms without data loss. This is the evolution of chat into a messenger. But if someone wants to stay with the chat, then let them stay

@julian said in NodeBB Architecture?:

@volanar That may be true, but we're a different kind of company than those silicon valley startups that raise money. This is not to say that they're bad and we're good — just that we're different in how we approach money.

They certainly can use that money to do cool things, but at a burn rate that far exceeds ours. We hit profitability organically, by growing our revenue through our SaaS offering and by taking on custom work.

I like to think we do cool things too, but the downside is I don't have unlimited funds to throw talented developers at every problem that strikes my fancy

Maybe someday!

I understand you, but we do not live in an isolated world. We have competition here. And everything needs resources. When choosing a community platform, support is the deciding factor, not programming language. This is the foundation of the foundations, support, support. Support! All modules must be supported. But you have a small team. There are two ways. Finding an investment that suits your history is no problem. You can raise tens of millions and improve your platform to the skies) Or let the community donate to these things. I want to donate hundreds of dollars, but I don't want to take your SAAS. You see who communicates in the community. Basically, these are the owners of individual platforms. They are willing to pay money for support.
I'm even willing to develop this theme for free, as long as you improve your support. Otherwise, my community is at risk. We just can't stand the competition. By your actions, you are advertising discourse. Writing code is not the main thing, the main thing is support. All modules that are written. There lies success. Create an opencollective account, hire developers and take nodebb to the next level. Otherwise, all your clients will sooner or later go into discourse, there are no problems with this.

@gotwf said in Solr searching engine is bad:

@volanar This looks promising. At least upon cursory examination. Have you used this with NodeBB?

+1 re; the ElasticSearch comments.

I have used this on my magento platform projects. This is very cool, search on the platform is no different than search on amazon. What is good about such a search is that there are a lot of analytics, it is ideal there. But meilisearch can do the same. And many users want to move from elasticsearch to meilisearch. For small online stores, this is critical when the database and the platform itself consume 2 gigabytes of RAM, and elastic consumes 1 gigabyte of RAM by default, for its normal operation. And how often is search used compared to other platform features?

@gotwf said in Please take our survey on the Persona theme... and maybe win a t-shirt! :

@volanar said in Please take our survey on the Persona theme... and maybe win a t-shirt! :

The only thing I would like to change is the readability of the posts

+1 for the default desktop/workstation UX. I'm typically hitting Ctrl-+ at least once, and more oft than not twice. Not everybody is twenty something with 20/10 vision, eh?

Platforms like facebook, telegram and others have spent millions of dollars and thousands of usability tests to improve the readability of their posts. And we can use it for free. Just take it and do it. This needs to be improved first.