NodeBB Inc: Forum Software for modern webpages

NodeBB's forum software runs on Node.js which is built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Because NodeBB runs on node.js it is single threaded and event based meaning it uses less memory because there are not as many number of concurrent connections, this eliminates the overhead created by thousands of threads/processes by handling many connections in a single thread.


NodeBB comes bundled out-of-the-box with all of the standard features expected of a full-fledged forum software: Categories/subcategories, user profiles (with profile icons and visually aesthetic profile pages), user groups, guest posting, moderation tools, flagging, thread states (lock/sticky), post and topic searching, email integration, and IM/Chat.


In addition, we also bundle real-time updates (new posts/topics, chat messages), the ability to see "who's browsing this topic", recent/popular/unread topics, tags, post sorting, social sharing, notification system, inbound email support/reply-by-email, mobile responsiveness, favourites, bookmarks, spam control, and reputation/karma.


With other rewards such as mobile compatibility and improved spam mitigation, not only are you giving your community a faster, newer platform, but you're also decreasing the amount of administrative overhead required to maintain your community.


The real power comes from plugins (Latest version over 80 plugins) which extend NodeBB, allowing it to support features like: Rich media embedding (Youtube/Vimeo), advertising integration (Google AdSense, DoubleClick, etc), third-party single-sign-on, emoji, mobile phone notifications, sound packs, CDN support, rich-text formatting/colours, static pages, galleries, and much much more.

 

Isn't it that NodeBB can't not run on shared hosting you have to get a VPS?

 

Yes that is correct. Hosting providers don't host node.js yet. However, we are open source if you are looking to host your self and we do offer a great hosting service for a small fee