Our First Public Post
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New NodeBB Version
This is a big day for the Homelab Forum as we migrate to NodeBB version 4. With this update, forum users now have a space to share posts that are automatically made available to the wider world via RSS, ActivityPub, and read-only access via direct URLs.
What's Changing
Not much, really. For the most part, all of the features and privacy we've become accustomed to stay the same, so rest assured that the things you post on the forum are still only viewable by logged in users.
This is true everywhere except posts within the Public Blogs category, which is now readable without being logged in. This also means that posts in the public blog section are interactable from the outside world via platforms like Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed (probably), and most other ActivityPub applications (this is configurable per blog, which is why we ask that anyone wanting to create blog posts here talk to an admin for setup).
This also means you might start seeing replies here from people you don't know. We'll continue to evaluate this to see if this is a good idea or a terrible idea, but hopefully this is an exciting new feature that allows us to selectively bridge the gap between our walled garden and our friends and family who aren't members.
