NodeBB v4.0.0 — Federate good times, come on!

[atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org]

Bulletin boards (a.k.a., "forums") have never gone away. Actually, they're more popular than ever.

Reddit, for example, is basically a giant bulletin board.

Facebook Groups are forums -- bolted onto Facebook itself -- and probably a major reason people still use Facebook.

Numerous help desk software, such as Zendesk, use bulletin boards as a major selling point of their platform.

And the reason why @nodebb@fosstodon.org federating is such a big deal is because a major request many people have regarding the #Fediverse is bulletin board capabilities. This now exists with NodeBB 4.0.0 -- which was just released today.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social definitely do it, it's a force multiplier in getting your content out, especially if you've built up an audience.

Discourse's AP integration is currently partially two-way. New topics and posts are federated outward to the fediverse, and replies federate in. There's currently no facility to discover new content from the fediverse and interact with it from Discourse.

From the start I've wanted NodeBB to be the fediverse client I use, so it supports full two-way communication with content discovery (via the dedicated /world page) from followed users.

[farooqkz@blackrock.city]

@julian

Congratulations! That's really cool! Looking forward to see this feature added to Discourse and other BBs as well!

[filene@dragon.style]

@julian I'm excited!! This is how I wanted to hear about nodebb!!

[ex_06@puntarella.party]

3 things:
- is @luceos flarum coming soon also?
- the nodebb yunohost package has something weird going on cause i cannot find where is my admin account and if i have one at all lol
- congratulations @julian !

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@ex_06@puntarella.party a lot of the one-click services for NodeBB are run by third parties, so you'll have to reach out to them for help.

I don't usually recommend one or the other, but I do know @cloudron@social.cloudron.io is on the fediverse...

[johnmidity@mastodon.social]

@julian
Fantastic news!
Greetings from Mastodon.

[creek@mspsocial.net]

@julian this is really neat.

[rnbastos@mas.erb.pw]

@atomicpoet @nodebb BBS FOREVER

[jdp23@blahaj.zone]

@julian@community.nodebb.org Congrats, and thanks to you and NodeBB for doing the work -- and NLNet for the funding! It's really exciting to see ... and timely, too!

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@julian This is absolutely fantastic news!

[michael@newsmast.social]

@julian Wonderful news! Congratulations!

[luceos@fosstodon.org]

@ex_06 @julian although I am very excited about federation, due to my burnout and financial situation I haven't been able to pursue this feature and we dropped it from our NLnet grant. I'm hoping to dive into it again as part of a future 2.x release.

[felwert@fedihum.org]

@atomicpoet @nodebb I agree! Since you mentioned reddit: Weren’t lemmy and kbin also supposed to be federated forums for the fediverse?

[ex_06@puntarella.party]

@luceos @julian

Damn… Take care

[newsmast@newsmast.social]

@julian

Congratulations!

[skariko@feddit.it]

Cool!

[padraig@mastodon.ie]

@julian Congratulations!

[onlinepersona@programming.dev]

Never heard of NodeBB before, but glad it's around! The more the merrier on the fediverse Seems like NodeBB stole discourse's thunder and have proper activitypub integration now.

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[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@julian congrats, this is amazing! thanks for all your work and support!!!