NodeBB Development Blog

It's been several months since our Toronto team has convened in our downtown office, and we've blogged previously about how we are spending our free time during social distancing. But of course that

I had the opportunity to speak on the topic of forum software and its role in the modern web, with my good friend Cinthia Pacheco of Digital Bloom IQ. Cinthia and I go

Last week we announced the new additions to our team so we wanted to formally introduce ourselves as well. We know this was long overdue, but it’s now time to meet the

In these extraordinary times, our Toronto-based office is still closed, and everybody is working from home. We’ve no choice but to pursue remote-first positions, though this is not necessarily a big change

Developer empowerment has always been at the core of NodeBB: Plugins receive first-class treatment, in that there are plenty of hooks enabling plugins to interact with nearly all facets of NodeBB Themes play

It seems almost every day that a new library is created, a new javascript framework, or bundle of utility methods that promises to make developing software faster, easier, more enjoyable, etc. Heck, there's

Happy Good Friday! The NodeBB offices are closed today, but I thought it'd be nice to show us that we all have lives outside of our work, even though we can't really go

There's a rather disturbing trend that I've noticed in recent years – sites take forever to load. It's a little distressing if only because our internet connections are getting faster, but on average (anecdotally)

What is the Digital Sabbath? The premise is simple: To go without digital media for a whole day as a form of rest. The challenge then, is to go without digital technology one

Without hesitation, I'd say that NodeBB has evolved heavily over the past 7 years1. The initial drive those first years was feature parity – bring features to NodeBB that other forums have, and that

Occasionally, a potential client will come to us and ask why they need a forum. Besides the usual reasons, one point that often comes up is the concept of "content ownership"

As the last leaves fall from the trees in Toronto, NodeBB 1.11.0 has arrived to help brighten those long nights! A common issue for forums is sorting out what traffic is

Summer is here, and so is the latest release of NodeBB, version 1.10.0. One focus of this release are improvements to the privileges system. We’ve made allowing search and banning

Spring has finally arrived in Toronto, and that means it's time for a brand new NodeBB release! So what's new? We initially planned this release for late April, although we ran into a