Open Collective Reviews

NodeBB Reviews

1. Gloryfrancis

   over 4 years ago
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   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.

2. Scott Alan Miller

   · COO at NTG LLC · almost 5 years ago
   Best Forum Experience

   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.

   🏁 Competitors: Discourse

   👍 Pros:    Ease of use|High performance|Great customer support|Open-source|Free|Scalable|Seo friendly

Open Collective mentions (162)

• Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request

  This bears repeating: It has been clear for a while that certain providers and services need to be regulated as utilities - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Visa, Mastercard, and soon Openai and Anthropic. Social media companies, as de-facto public squares, should be clubbed into that category once they gain a certain reach. It should be illegal for these companies, just like utilities, to deny service to anyone or any... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers

  How is this different than something like https://opencollective.com (which, for example, Actual Budget uses: https://opencollective.com/actual ). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects

  * Finances are handled by https://opencollective.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Funding in Open Source: A Conversation with Chad Whitacre

  Chad has been leading the Open Source Pledge, a simple framework to get companies to fund the projects they rely on. The idea is straightforward: for every developer your company employs, allocate $2,000 per year to open source. Distribute those funds however you want—GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, Thanks.dev, direct payments, etc. The only other ask is to publish a blog post showing what you did. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• None of the top 10 projects in GitHub is actually a software project 🤯

  We see some projects that can financially survive (via sponsor or external infrastructure such as open collective or patreon), favoring the long-term sustainability. Thus, we keep our stand on promoting a transparent governance model to state where the investment will be managed and who can benefit from it, especially when knowing that non-technical users have an increasing key role in these communities. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

NodeBB mentions (4)

• Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

  You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Don't Use Discord as a Forum

  > 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

• Don't Use Discord as a Forum

  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

• Hey Guys, I'm an Open Source enthusiast. StackFoss.com is an open source StackOverFlow alternative, and what makes StackFoss awesome is Focus on open source and Ad-free.

  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