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Lovable NodeBBNodeBB is recommended for businesses, communities, and developers who require a customizable and real-time forum solution. It's particularly suitable for tech-savvy users who want to leverage Node.js and those looking to integrate forums with existing web applications.
NodeBB is a next-generation discussion platform that utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB forums have many modern features out of the box such as social network integration and streaming discussions. NodeBB is an open source project which can be forked on GitHub.
I was lucky enough to stumble on NodeBB in the early days right as we were transitioning a large user base from another forum and needed a platform that could handle the volume and speed of interactions that our users demanded. We took a big risk on NodeBB in 2014 when it was brand new and it has paid off in spades over the years. For seven years our users have consistently raved about ease of use and performance of the platform while on the back end we have been thrilled with the ease of management and low resource needs of hosting even for a site hitting hundreds of millions of hits per month. It is modern, regularly updated, has a great community and team behind it. We've always gotten lots of support and know that we made the right choice and continue to choose NodeBB as our forum of choice.
Based on our record, Lovable seems to be a lot more popular than NodeBB. While we know about 73 links to Lovable, we've tracked only 4 mentions of NodeBB. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
We built this in Lovable. A few prompts that saved real time:. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago
I built the site, called Insider Hawk, with Lovable. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
A solo founder using Bolt or Lovable can go from idea to working prototype in a weekend. Cursor handles multi-file refactoring on a production codebase. V0 generates polished UI components from a description. The founder who previously needed six months and $80,000 in savings or seed funding can now ship a testable product in two weeks for under $8,000 in tool costs. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
If you're building with Lovable and Supabase, there's a gotcha that will bite you eventually โ and when it does, you'll wonder why nobody warned you. Consider this your warning. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
I've shipped over a dozen MVPs with Lovable over the past year at Inithouse. The builder handles UI, routing, and deployment beautifully โ but SEO is not part of the default stack. Every single app I launched needed manual fixes before Google would index it properly. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
> I'm a big fan of https://nodebb.org/ TIL to what shit Netgate moved pfSense forums to. I'm glad you are fine with it, but not only my FullHD monitor is not a smartphone, so I don't need 400% fonts on everything (and post dates on the faaaaar right clearly shows nobody ever even used the forum) and most importantly - search doesn't work. It's not like the previous forum had a good search, but at least it worked.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
I wrote about this a while ago for Slack/forums: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451 but the points still hold. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216 Full featured OSS forum you can self-host or let them host for you (for $). Big fan of letting people use the search interface they want, which is almost always Google. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
You said it's based on. This means that there are modifications to the implementation of nodebb. So where is your modifications' source code then? stackfoss/stackfoss is just a single readme file. Source: over 3 years ago
bolt.new - Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps
Discourse - Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
replit - Code, create, andlearn together. Use our free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages โ without spending a second on setup.
XenForo - Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.
BASE44 - The platform for people to turn ideas into working products.
phpBB - Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, credit-card sized computer. The official website uses phpBB for their discussion forums. phpBB is not affiliated with nor responsible for any of the sites listed on the showcase.
