NodeBB v1.18.0 - Hanging Tough With A New Release It's been a weird and wacky summer but we hope you are hanging in there — my daughter sure was at this cool ropes course recently! Meanwhile the team has been working away on
What does a forum migration look like? Just ask Moz... We were recently engaged by the SEO services company Moz to re-vamp their Q&A forum. As is typical of many of our client engagements, not only do we do our best
NodeBB v1.17.0 - Scheduled Topics, New Moderation Features and More Spring has sprung in Toronto, so we're taking advantage by getting some extremely low budget advertising. Hey, doesn't everyone make their software purchasing decisions based on what they read on the sidewalk? Hah-hah!
NodeBB v1.16.0 - One Last Release For A Weird Year It's not news to say 2020 has been... challenging. In Toronto, the home of NodeBB HQ, we've gone from a spring lockdown to a cautious summer reopening, to lockdown again — sigh. But the
The API continues to evolve... A couple months back as part of our Roadmap to v2, I made the claim that one of the large features in that release would be the merging of the Write API plugin
Optimizing Benchpress Optimizing Benchpress Recently, I saw the release of nom v6 and decided I wanted to try it out, and see if I could speed up my hobby JS template compiler, BenchpressJS. Background Benchpress
NodeBB 1.15.0 - Home Again But Still Hard At Work Unfortunately, after only returning a couple of times to our Toronto office, the city started to see a new spike in COVID-19 cases, so we're back to working remotely. But that certainly won't
elearning Forums and the new era of eLearning I had the rare opportunity to speak with Don Pezet, CEO of ITProTV, and asked him to share his thoughts on eLearning at large.
NodeBB v1.14.3: A Critical Security Update A bug in our validation logic made it possible to change the password of any user on a running NodeBB forum by sending a specially crafted socket.io call to the server. We
A decade in the industry; a ten year retrospective Recently, a milestone had passed me by without my knowing – the original start date for my very first programming job was May 3rd, 2010. Ten years have flown by (or in some cases,
community The Faceless Master This past month, my family asked me to design a website to showcase my late grandfather’s paintings. Grandpa passed away in ’93, the same year that I was born. We visited him
NodeBB 1.14.0 - Distance Won't Keep Us From Moving Forward 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
Digitally Overwhelmed Podcast, Episode 140 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
Meet The Leadership Team 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
NodeBB is Growing! 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
Unveiling of the Read API 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
Abstraction, Perfection, and on Coding as a Craft 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
Checking in with the NodeBB Crew - Social Distancing Edition 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
A Fast Web is Achievable 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)
Reflections on the Digital Sabbath 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
Slice and Dice: bringing NodeBB back to Basics 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
howto How To: Install NodeBB on DigitalOcean/Ubuntu 18.04 Interested in installing NodeBB? There has always been a latent demand for free forum software – oftentimes, monetary investment in a solution does not make sense for communities just starting out, or smaller enthusiast
Looking ahead to NodeBB v2.x Wait! Don't get too excited! There's a lot to figure out and a lot to actually do, so we're not in any position to state any timelines or make any promises1 just yet.
nodebb NodeBB 1.13.0: a little snow won't slow us down Apparently the last time there was this much snow in Toronto was 1951, back when "bulletin boards" were just things you stuck push-pins into. Times sure change! But one thing that
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"