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Migrate nodebb to a new machine

Fairly simple to reproduce.

I mistyped the email address of the admin account when running nodeBB setup. I have a public instance using sendmail for email notifications. I can successfully create users and confirm their email addresses. However when I try to correct the email address of the original admin account, it sends an email to the new address, but when I click on the link it says my email was already confirmed. The users section of the admin page shows both addresses, with the old incorrect one showing as confirmed and the new one showing as pending. My user page shows just the old incorrect address.

I really enjoy the federation feature very much, we move a lot of interesting fediverse threads into the forum and also have people from "outside" replying to threads.

I am searching the forums and the docs without luck on this topic.

nodebb version: 4.1.0. installed via YunoHost on dedicated server

Good day. I'm learning how to use sockets in plugins. I want to send a message in my web browser (client side) and catch it in the server console.

We have written the following JavaScript code to allow students to preview PDF files uploaded to our forum. Our goal is to enable them to view lecture notes directly on the forum while preventing them from downloading the files.

A user on our forum asked us to use camelCase on our tags. I've noticed that most tags by now are minuscule. Can I change the lettering on tags in NodeBB after the fact?

When I initially installed NodeBB, I filled in the url in the form of IP + port number. Now I want to change it. How can I do that?

@support@community.nodebb.org I'm trying to move a post from one topic to another. I haven't had problems with this and it works really well. There's one post I can't move and I wonder if it is because it is a federated post. The post is one out of several that are off-topic, so I want to move that whole side-discussion into its own topic. The only post I can't move is the federated post. What could be the reason?

@support@community.nodebb.org Hi there! Hope this gets through, first of all.

If my google username is bla blaa , while registering a user with this plugin it assigns the username bla-blaa to my nodebb user. So if my forum is example.com , my username becomes @bla-blaa@example.com . While this username can be followed from most fediverse server like mastodon and pixelfed, threads takes only the part before the dash and so assumes the username to be bla and thus the nodebb user cannot be mentioned or followed from threads. So, I want this plugin to assign the username @blablaa@example.com or @blaBlaa@example.com on registration for this case. @julian @baris How can I do so? Asking this because I did not find any code in this plugin which concatenates the username parts using dash, so I guess this has got to do something with core nodebb and this plugin will need to override that.

Sometime yesterday my forum stopped receivng (or accepting?) new remote topics or posts. I'd spent time yesterday playing with plugins and permissions, so I've been rolling back those changes this morning, but it hasn't resulted in the resumption of content flow.

Is there a way to configure a NodeBB instance so that plugins cannot be installed via the ACP? The other settings can be changed to disrupt the forum, but installing a malicious plugin could damage the server itself (and even Docker is not completely protective)... Thanks!

So, I needed a second forum on the same server as I placed community.darkscribes.com. I setup a seperate directory in /var/www to contain a new code base, and set config.json for "port": "4568",

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Installing plugins in NodeBB Hi everyone! (Request to administrators to move to the appropriate category) I installed the NodeBB forum and I use cloudron. I wrote a new plugin for NodeBB, and when I try to install it directly from the terminal I get an error that the files are read-only. Even when I opened a project on GitHub and uploaded the plugin files there, and tried typing the command: /usr/local/bin/gosu cloudron:cloudron yarn add nodebb-theme-XXXX I still got the same error. Can someone help me figure out where my mistake is? Thank you!

I'm looking to change the global meta properties og:title and og:image attributes for my website but can not seem to find the core files. My logo on FB links seem to be cutting off each time so I decided to create a custom image to link to that instead of the default site-logo image set my NodeBB.

So, I'm playing around with forum structure, and I purged a category with the hope of just clearing it out and reusing it. Unfortunately, purging it from the forum doesn't seem to have cleaned up the namespace. I'm not familiar with mongodb or nosql, but from the limited exploration I've managed to do, the category handle isn't showing up.

Hi,

I'm fairly new to NodeBB so forgive me for any gaps in basic knowledge.

When my users land on the their profile page, there is no header or logo.

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@support@community.nodebb.org I think it would be a good idea to show posts that are in-reply-to as quotes in the reply. Right now, all you see is a tiny "replied to..." on the top. Since NodeBB can interoperate with Lemmy, it can get kind of confusing to follow some threads, as the forum UX presents the discussion as linear, while Lemmy is multi-threaded. Showing the original post as a quote would help with following the discussion.

trying to install nodebb4. ive done other installs of nodebb.

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Is there a way to allow registered users to copy/boost/whatever uncategorized topics from external sites/the fediverse into local categories? I can do it using mod tools, but can't do it with a standard account. Is there a setting for this?

@support@community.nodebb.org Is there an open GitHub issue for federated images not showing up? It creates links, but the upload seems to have failed, so it just returns a 404 on my end.

Let's say I have several forums (NodeBB and Discourse) and I would like to have federation between them as I understand it (that is, the penetration of users from one instance to another without the need to re-register). I absolutely do not need (and my users) a large federverse. No ordinary person not invested in this politically or financially will study how it works. I am a tech geek and have been looking at this for a year now and I do not understand how it could be made so incredibly complex and unfriendly.

Hi NodeBB folks!