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NodeBB Features
Features Summary
Functionality
4.0
/5
14
Total features
21
1 categories
NodeBB features
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Functionality
4.0
/5
14
Price starts from
250
Per month
Total Features
21
Unique features
Single Sign On
Online Forums
Membership Management
Member Directory
Functionality
4.6
/5
4K
Price starts from
Free
Total Features
26
Features in Common
5
Unique features
Content Import/Export
Reporting/Analytics
Brand Tracking
For Small Businesses
Functionality
4.3
/5
2.7K
Price starts from
19
Per month
Total Features
119
Features in Common
13
Unique features
Electronic Payments
Data Import/Export
Categorization/Grouping
Order Management
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Ramindu D.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used other for less than 6 months
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NodeBB proved to be a cut above other outdated forum building tools in its speed and modern integrations.
NodeBB is a modern, fast forum building tool that brings a lot of current social features and integrations to the old-school bulletin board. IT provides lightening fast response times and is full open source so a breeze to clone from Github and set up. It provides multiple database integration options and quick integration with 3rd party services as well. Further integrations can be carried out through its comprehensive suite of RESTful web services.
While the provisioned services for NodeBB are quite useful and provide effective customer support, using a provisioned instance of NodeBB can be quite costly.
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E-Learning, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Overall, I would recommend NodeBB as a forum software to companies who would like to test the very idea of having a forum, or who are not ready to commit to large budgets and extended functionality. If you don't have any resources to write custom CSS, you could rely on one of their pre-made themes, and select from among 10+ skins. If you have design and coding resources, your opportunities will be...
We've been using NodeBB to run our forum for more than a year. Overall, it's a great *value for money* tool. The interface is relatively easy to use: after a bit of work of understanding where different settings are controlled, two people, one of whom was a trainee, could work it out alright. We like the look and feel it provides, which gives an impression of a website, rather than your average forum...
Since it's a new platform and a small team, there isn't a lot of learning materials about the software. Because plugins are open to the community to create, they would sometimes interfere with one another and break things. There is no curation to the list of recommended or updated plugins. And there is no quick way to understand if a task could be solved with a plugin or not (could be solved through documentation?). One needs to spend time with the community to work this out.
Danny E.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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• Infinitely extendable with plugins and widgets • Open source, making it possible to find the source of any issue • The data sent to every page is easily accessible in JSON via API • Great support for forums hosted by NodeBB
• Plugins and widgets break on every upgrade. It's impossible to keep the system up to date without a lot of effort and developer resources • While the system is extendable, many things that should be built in are either second class add-ons or non existent. We had to build our own search widget, for example. • We have discovered numerous security issues and bugs that NodeBB should have been aware of themselves
Arie S.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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I want my users to share knowledge about our software products and video post-production techniques amongst themselves. To that end, it works well.
That it is both open sourced and that it can be hosted by the developer. The forum is both supportable and portable because of that. It's got a very nice user interface and I think it's just easy to get around, and it's responsive. Every part of the UI is clean and modern, and they've built it to accept many third-party integrations.
I wish there were more themes for the forums. There are alot of switches to see which fonts / colors work. I do like how it's very open, but it's not immediately obvious that in some cases those third party integrations cost additional fees.
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Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Using it as a community for hyperPad. Deployed using a docker container. Lots of different themes and examples of how to use things. Built in package manager (though might be tricky when using docker)
Easy to install, good extensions. Writing extensions is easy.
The API has no documentation. Wanted to make some integrations, but couldn't figure out how to authenticate from a third party.
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Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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A very active development team that is looking to improve their software. The forum software itself is pretty straightforward to use. We have it hosted by them so I couldn't say what it's like on the back end, but everything works for us on the front end.
It's open source, very customizable. Their hosting plans are very competitive compared to similar competitors. The user interface is very modern. Their customer service is very quick to respond.
The UI isn't consistent in some areas, it's a bit of a tinkerer's software. I wouldn't put it as enterprise ready.
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