Public group chats (!!), FontAwesome Pro support, better dark mode, among much much more!
We're really happy with the latest changes to the #chats system. Who needs #Discord anymore when you can have a kickass #forum system with chats subsystem that is on-par with Discord? 😊
Since we just had issues with a #Discourse upgrade AGAIN on the OctoPrint community forums (the admin team is trying to fix things up as I'm typing this), does anyone here have experience with migrating from Discourse to #NodeBB by any chance?
Seriously considering a future move right now. We've had nothing but bad experiences with their "official supported way" of doing a self-hosted setup, and I feel really bad for the admins.
People sometimes ask how we got #nodebb to be so fast and performant.
Our secret weapon is being #Canadian 🇨🇦 — you see... our internet is so fucking expensive we can't afford the faster plans, so we have to make our code run fast otherwise we will die before the page loads.
We hold the wonderful distinction of having the most expensive internet in the world on a $/mbits scale 🙄
When seeking support or sharing feedback about software/website, which platform would you prefer to use? Please share your reasons in the replies (if you wish).
Still looking for responses to this one! Also I should've probably included hashtags, however I can't edit the post because that'll reset votes. I don't remember if hashtags work for replies, but probably worth a try: #Survey#Poll#Discourse#NodeBB#GitHub#Discord#Forums.
🌠 Did you know that #NodeBB now supports public chat rooms?
tl;dr — The upcoming 3.3.0 release will add support for public group chats and allow bigger rooms. 🎊
We've put in a whole bunch of effort to refactor the chat system to support this, bringing us just that little bit closer to replacing incumbents like IRC/Discord/Slack, check it out on our forum, or take a stroll down memory lane and read up on the history of our chat implementation 👇
@ben very neat. My only detraction from this is that it precludes other #foss projects from implementing first-class #ActivityPub support because of its paid nature (but I 100% understand the need to do so, hosting isn't free!)
Bundling the open source server in with a project also seems like it'd be complicated, so at least for #NodeBB it sounds like we may still have to forge on ahead with our own implementation.
the best thing masto can do right now, imo, is to prioritize features & support for organizing communities.This is why facebook has society in its jaws, people are able to easily create, find, and post in any number of communities they overlap with.
if mastodon or an adjacent fediverse platform can better facilitate self-organizing communities, they will win all the spoils and then some
We sometimes field requests from people who want to import their existing users in from a separate user database. While we normally recommend the use of a single sign-on plugin (#sso) to act as an alternative authenticator, we also now support user import via CSV.
This #canadaday weekend, traffic increased so much on #Mastodon that I think my little cloud VPS is starting to struggle to keep up with the volume of incoming content. My feed is about 15 minutes behind, currently 😬
I think I may just throw in the towel and move on over to #mastohost
@multiverseofbadness@Jerry yeah I'm used to #NodeBB running on a potato server, so I was really surprised that a single-user instance needed such beef.
Although I guess 2GB is not a lot of beef. It's all relative 😁
I'm simultaneously excited and dreading to see how NodeBB can handle a really active inbox...
Back in April, we updated our publish scripts to push new images to the GitHub Container Repository #ghcr instead of #Docker — if you use Docker to deploy #NodeBB, switching is pretty straightforward.
Shoutout to all of the contributors to SourceGraph whose work was just made closed source, big thanks to SourceGraph for pissing on them, I'm sure they really appreciate it. All those users who thought your FOSS product was really cool surely still think your product is super cool now that you've taken their rights away
@drewdevault I'm not sure why you're being so aggressive right now.
There's no exclusive right to commercialization with #NodeBB, none is expected, and someone could start a competitor with our software if they so wished.
I reached out to try to have a civil discussion about our rationale for requiring a CLA, and to explore alternative solutions, but you seem more interested in shaming others instead of talking.
Also - checked out BrutalLinks just yeaterday and will look in more after this exhausting trip! 🤣 I've been working on a fediverse client for myself I want to ultimately incorporate it into my online game but also add better fediverse safety features
@devnull has a great message board program at #NodeBB he's been incorporating ActivityPub into as well and is putting together a small resource group for ActivityPub coders to share thoughts.. wanted to introduce you two!
Mea culpa time — you might've heard that we're hacking away (in the best sense of the word) at #ActivityPub support in #NodeBB, but it turns out someone asked for it back in 2019 and it got zero buy-in from our founders 😥
@shoq that would be very welcome and is much appreciated. At some point I'll have a private beta for testing.
The thing is I myself am very new to the #fediverse. There's a lot of nuance and expectations over how fediverse apps work, that #NodeBB ought to follow. There's a time and a place to push boundaries and break things, but I don't think that time is now 😉. Working with people experienced with the status quo would provide a good objective review.
Thinking about Hacker News but sprinkled with #activitypub
imagine being able to reply and participate to any #HN post from the #fediverse and with #webmentions have fediverse comments mingled with native HN activity.
I could easily do a test with this idea using RSS to autofeed a #Discourse or #Nodebb forum and then consume the firehose from #Fediverse, just for fun!
Whoa! This is not a rumour! @nodebb actually confirmed they’re joining the #Fediverse!
Hooray! #ActivityPub integration is on its way! This is a big deal because #NodeBB is mature forum software that’s been in development for quite some time!
For the moment, when Lemmy can connect to tens of thousands (MAUs), & Kbin can connect to millions (MAUs). Personally I'm going to go with my Kbin account.
Both platforms need development. Also other forum platforms are taking up ActivityPub #NodeBB#Flarum#Discourse so this space on the Fediverse is going to expand & evolve quite a bit. #Fediverse#RedditMigration