Thoughts on content ownership and long, meaningful discussions 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"
nodebb NodeBB 1.12.0: keeping warm with email, search and spam fighting improvements While the snow keeps falling in Toronto, NodeBB's team and community contributors have been hard at work on our latest release. Email Improvements We've made some changes to help make NodeBB emails a
NodeBB 1.11.0: traffic filtering, navigation improvements and more 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
NodeBB 1.10.0: privilege improvements and more 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
GDPRmageddon Is your forum ready for #GDPRmageddon? GDPR comes into force May 25. Are you ready? If not, NodeBB can help.
What's New in v1.9.0 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
NodeBB 1.9.0: world's first GDPR compliant forum software We're proud to announce that NodeBB has become the first forum software to become GDPR compliant. What is the GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union law intended to
Generating your first Wildcard SSL Certificate via Certbot/Let's Encrypt We've issued over 10k wildcard certificates in the first 48 hours of wildcard and ACMEv2 availability. More about wildcards and ACMEv2 can be found here: https://t.co/0SdH98Oabn— Let&
NodeBB 1.8.0: chat updates, improved moderation controls and more Forums are about community conversation -- mostly. Sometimes you need to talk one-on-one or in a small group, which is why NodeBB includes a chat feature. With our latest release we've improved the
NodeBB 1.7.2: Topic Merging and Blobs NodeBB 1.7.2 is here, and it includes Blob Emoji. What can we say except... Did You Know: The plural of emoji is emoji? We didn't until this morning. See that kids?
On Net Neutrality and the future of the Internet By now, the majority of you reading this have probably heard that the FCC is preparing to roll back Obama-era Net Neutrality protections that have been in place since 2015. These protections safeguard
NodeBB 1.7.0: Even faster, you say? We keep saying improving speed with NodeBB is one of our top priorities. And guess what? With version 1.7.0 we've found even more ways to speed things up, specifically: Translator Improvements
Feeling the need for speed? Ever since the very first commits, a primary focus of NodeBB has been speed. We set out to provide a feature-rich forum without the typical reduction in speed commonly associated with long-running projects.
NodeBB v1.6.1 Release The NodeBB team is pleased to release v1.6.1, a bugfix/patch release, for general consumption. v1.6.1 is considered a patch release and there are few changes to note. By-and-large,
NodeBB 1.6.0: faster (rendering) and prettier (emails) We've always liked to think that NodeBB is pretty fast in comparison to other forum softwares out there — our code has been reasonably tight, and of course building on Node.js doesn't hurt.
lithium The Small Pond Advantage The recently announced acquisition of Jive Software's community tools by Lithium Technologies got me thinking about bodies of water. Sounds a bit weird but stay with me... Jive and Lithium are both providers
What's up, Doc(-umentation)? I was on my way into the office one morning when I saw a link to the results of the 2017 Open Source Survey, released by GitHub. I'm almost certain I filled it
v1.5.0, A Long-awaited Release I suppose in the grand scheme of things, the wait between the last NodeBB release (v1.4.6) and this release, v1.5.0, has not actually been long, though it has felt
Reflections on 4 years of upgrade scripts The first commit to NodeBB was nearly four years ago, and in that time, many changes have been made to the core code itself, from feature additions and bug fixes, to bundling of
Introducing the build system in v1.4.x It's been quite awhile since we've released a new version, and for the most part that is because we've been working hard to chase down some of the more esoteric bugs and building
Slick: a new theme for your NodeBB forum We're very happy to announce a great new theme that also helps support a great cause. The Slick theme has been developed by Anil Mandepudi (a.k.a. pichalite) and is now available
NodeBB v1.4.0 Release It's been four months since we last posted about NodeBB v1.1.0. Since then we've released three new minor versions (we're too busy coding to blog apparently!). Here's a summary about what's
NodeBB v1.1.0 Release Hello all, Last week, we released v1.1.0 of NodeBB, containing a number of new features, bug fixes, and some security fixes. As always, it is advised to update your NodeBB to
i18n Locali(s|z)ation in NodeBB and other FL/OSS projects Years ago, when I first got started in the software development industry, I had very little experience with open source software. I was vaguely aware of the concept, and I was aware of
v1.0.1... semver, automated builds, plugin upgrade tools, and more! The NodeBB team is proud to release v1.0.1, a patch update for NodeBB containing many bug fixes and several new features! Semver Changes Upon the release of v1.0.0, NodeBB