Forum Software: NodeBB Discourse
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I wanted to start a little discussion about forum software. This is the first time I am seeing NodeBB used in a forum I am interested in. All the others use Discourse. From a user perspective I do like it so far.
Maybe a question directed to @tiekoetter: What was the reasoning behind choosing NodeBB as the software for the forum instead of Discourde (or others)?
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That is a good question and I was looking at Discourse initially but couldn't get it to work how I would have wanted. It also throws countless errors and seems more hacked together than a thought through software. The docker image was not really working, this may also be an error on my part but they officially don't support docker as an install method which I thought was a red flag.
I came across NodeBB in my research for a modern forum software. Looked promising. They provided a clean docker install method. I also noticed that Netgate (the company behind pfSense) uses NodeBB for their forums.
It also looked easy to maintain, which turned out true, so I settled on it.
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My OpenBSD machine on an old Thinkpad does approve. It runs pretty smooth. My laptop gets loud when it needs to load a lot of JavaScript. I didn't have much problems with Discourse as and end user, but this forum loads even better. I also tend to use Vimium (or similar) when browsing the internet (basically Vim keybindings for your browser) and NodeBB does a good job to be accessible.
The only thing I need to look into right now is: I need to get an email for new posts, I just browsed through here again "by accident" and saw your answer. Could be that I turned them off or I have to turn them on on purpose (which is fine).
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You can change this on under your profile -> settings. There you can change each different notification type from "notification only" to "notification & email". I have this set to notification only so it doesn't spam inboxes by default.
Hope this helps and thanks for your feedback!
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