NodeBB

I'm currently working on a script to automate posting replies to topics in a NodeBB forum using the NodeBB API. I have successfully managed to log in and retrieve user data, but I'm encountering issues when trying to post a reply to a topic.

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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.

The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.

Hi @andrew_s@piefed.social/@freamon and @nutomic@lemmy.ml —I'm working (not-so-secretly) on refactoring NodeBB so that it is able to "browse" remote audiences/group actors, and that would include things like PieFed and Lemmy communities.

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

@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social recently made a statement that got me thinking about our place in the open social web, and the direction it's going.

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@general-discussion I'm messing around with nodebb because I wanted to see if it was worth the activitypub integration so I figured that I'd share my thoughts here.

I'm curious about the possibility of using a NodeBB account as my main account for accessing and interacting with the fediverse.

nodebb version: 4.1.0. installed via YunoHost on dedicated server

Hi can we change the topic/post editor

Very complicated all this Fediverse stuff! Far from the dream of having one account for everything, I seemed to need an account on every service to get the whole picture. I have now Nodebb, Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed and Peertube! I dont know if Im just not using it properly, or if seeing everything from any one of these site is even possible? @julian how far off is the prospect of using my nodebb account for all Federated chat, is that even achievable in long term?

So I was wondering if there was a way for me to have a Category follow a federated account.

Wanted to start a convo with @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz from Ghost and @angus@socialhub.activitypub.rocks from Discourse about AP resource discovery.

Hey, remember Skype? I do. When I joined my first tech company (making silly little Facebook games back when that was a thing), they were coordinating over emails and in-person desk visits. First thing I did as an unpaid intern was move the dev team onto Skype.

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 just released version 4.1.0 of NodeBB. Here are the latest features you can now take advantage of!

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?

Hi everyone,

Hey @dansup@mastodon.social, can I poke you about getting NodeBB on FediDB?

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.

Guys, can anyone help with setting up the server? I gave VPS access I haven't been able to set it up for 5 days now

Is there such a thing as a child theme repo? For example, say I want to use Harmony but I want to customize it but someone else already has a lot of what I want done so I could use that.

Can anyone recommend a well supported plugin that allows inserting ads between posts and/or perhaps other parts of the site. Something that can be controlled so it's not overwhelming. it would have to allow both Google ads (and others?) along with custom ads such as my own ads being placed here and there.

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.

Was wondering if anyone had even thought of, let alone used NodeBB for Drupal comments? I kinda like the idea of using it instead of the default comment system. It allows some more finer discussion control I think, while keeping unneeded people from having accounts on the content pages.

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.

For awhile now we've hosted https://try.nodebb.org as our demo instance for people to see a plain NodeBB instance.

I was doing some testing of meta data and found something odd. I have matomo code in the custom header but it's not showing up in the source after saving/rebuilding etc. What is really odd is that I have matomo code in another nodebb that we have and its working fine. Both are the exact same version using the non customized Harmony theme.

I discovered this week a little footgun if you happen to use this bit of syntactic sugar:

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!

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The logs from this are already cleared on my server, but when I sent a private message (standard Create/Note with a single recipient who also has a Mention in the tag property) from my custom software to my account here, I received a 500 error saying something like "cc is not iterable" (though I don't know the exact phrasing). When I included cc as an empty array, it started working. Not sure whether it was missing on Create or Note, maybe it was both.

@testing-ground Coming from Mastodon

@generel-snak-om-tech@forum.fedi.dk This should go in both places

@generel-snak-om-tech@forum.fedi.do This should go in both places

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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@testing-ground@community.nodebb.org Will this federate then?

@testing-ground@community.nodebb.org Hello World! :wave:

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!

When I move posts on nodebb and the url changes, is there a way to give visitors a 301 rather than a 404? In my opinion, this should be done automatically otherwise you get dinged by search engines but I don't see that.

@general-discussion Is there a manual for regular users of NodeBB?

@testing-groundHow do you give a fedi address to a category?Is this available in any nodeBB version 4.0.0+?

@testing-ground

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.

@testing-ground Yet another test to see if I can create a thread on a NodeBB forum from my mastodon account.

Hello everyone! 😊

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I want to change my category for topic

@panos brought up something interesting recently, which is that Lemmy communities don't boost everything (at least when viewed from Mastodon), but just the original post.

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

@testing-ground This is a test.

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

PieFed is very similar to Lemmy, but with a couple small differences that a couple people prefer. It seems to be retrieving the community okay, we'll see if this post goes through.

Hello everyone!

I've been a fan of forums for years (decades, even...) going all the way back to BBSes and newsgroups. However, in recent years, I've noticed that more and more discussions have been moving to Reddit and Discord. While I understand the appeal of subreddits covering nearly every conceivable topic, I struggle to see why Reddit, in particular, has become so dominant. It lacks many features that decent forums take for granted, yet it seems to be steadily wiping out independently hosted forums. Am I missing something obvious that explains its popularity?

Hi. This is a test post from Lemmy to test federation between discuss.tchncs.de and forum.wedistribute.org. Let's see how it works.

The crazy thing about ActivityPub is that there's way more projects out there than you might realize. A seasoned Fedizen might be able to easily think of about a dozen or so platforms in the space, but I wanted to take the time to focus on the more esoteric ones we've come across.

This is just a soft inquiry for now, but I wanted to open up a discussion about public-facing documentation for the Fediverse: whether it's beneficial to have, what form it should take, and to what degree thorough historical and technical information is needed for preservation and reference.

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Previously discussed, it takes a while to follow a set of people who might post on the topic of your forum. Having done that, and got an interesting World feed, its a shame that isnt available to new users

I converted content using this

I doing web using nodebb . I want test how to edit post

@activitypub Hey, thanks for the awesome ActivityPub support!

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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?

Testing from Nostr does this work?@testing-ground @03f06766

I'm trying to find how I can enable Parse Markdown in API posts so I go to Extend, Plugins, Active and click on Settings for the markdown plugin.

I'm using the nodebb API to create posts and update them. The user is fully allowed to post as the API authenticated user. There are no limitations or auto removals set in the nodebb forums settings.

NodeBB will be making an appearance at this year's FOSDEM!

Let's see if things sync today.

@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.