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:

[email protected] node_modules/connect-redis
└── [email protected] ([email protected])
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?

@pichalite That would be pretty cool man.. the idea of category picking would be excellent.

I also think this plugin is fairly important. Slack is taking over but it doesn't allow for more structured and threaded conversations. No one wants to go back to email forum spam but to get notifications of new topics and encourage the slack community to see new forum content would alow the forum to reach the community and not spam ( or be ignored in ) there email

Best of both worlds?