We are looking to run a private community using NodeBB but we seem to be unable to lock down things like the user profiles and user list; both the pages and the API endpoints. Is there something I am missing or is it just not possible to user NodeBB to run a private community?

docker run --name my-forum-redis -d -p 6379:6379 nodebb/docker:ubuntu-redis
docker run --name dockerdev-nodebb --link dockerdev-redis:redis -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -p 4567:4567 -P -t -i nodebb/docker:ubuntu

Defined the wbsite url for the forum as http://forum.mydomain.com:80

Results in:

connect-redis@2.0.0 node_modules/connect-redis
└── debug@2.2.0 (ms@0.7.1)
14/12 09:45 [1] - info: Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
14/12 09:45 [1] - error: Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED
    at RedisClient.flush_and_error (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:142:13)
    at RedisClient.on_error (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:180:10)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/opt/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:95:14)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at net.js:441:14
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
14/12 09:45 [1] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted. Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED

Any help would be appreciated.

Yep thats fixed it both in the API and in front end. Thank you.

Well at least I am not the only one @BDHarrington7 - I have changed this thread to a question thread and marked it as unsolved.

We are looking to run a private community using NodeBB but we seem to be unable to lock down things like the user profiles and user list; both the pages and the API endpoints. Is there something I am missing or is it just not possible to user NodeBB to run a private community?

Editing the post is open to the OP so moderator messages could be faked or changed. Moderator comments would be a fairly good way to put it perhaps, but they would be surfaced as part of the OP not further down the reply thread.

Moderator / Admin messages - It would be great if administrators / moderators could added messages to a post. This would could be used to explain why a topic had been moved or forked or even to warn that a post is a duplicate or perhaps explain why its been locked.

If this could be created or if it exists already please let me know

@pichalite said:

nodebb-plugin-slack-extended

You sir are a legend; thank you

@pichalite No; no... I am taking that as basically some sort of solid immutable contract.

@julian Thank you

I had a look and nhitchins was apparently last online about a year ago which is roughly when the plugin was last updated. Does seem to have the air of an abandoned plugin.

@pichalite do you think you will fork this and merge your PR?