>it seems to imply that writing it in nodejs comes at some cost and you need to justify that cost by saying you expect a lot of traffic
Maybe I just too traditional, but there are far more mature back end frameworks available, without the warts of JS. For me I prefer to see a need or justification of using the latest software trends, not just because "its modern" or "that's how we do things nowadays" (a genuine response to a project I am involved in when I asked the case for using Node).
Node.js obviously has some use cases where it will shine, but I wouldn't have thought a BB was one of these places, as its quite a traditional kind of app.
Exactly right. For a web forum I'd stick to mature, free options built in Python or Ruby. Node.js stuff is great for those who want to use it, but not me, I'd use DjangoBB. Look at this thing of beauty http://support.djangobb.org/.
This post stinks of advertising to me. Or the worst form of Node.js bandwagoning if it isn't- so I hope it is viral advertising.
Not to mention this thing is a pure, pre-ejected abortion of design. https://community.nodebb.org/ I'm not sure who these web designers think they're fooling with this crap.
The "modern web" looks full of hipster goons who would have also cooked up the ribbon interface. I'll stick to my minimalism, black text on white backgrounds, usable forums, and not reinventing the blink tag.
Yeah, how dare modern users want to be able to read right to left and top to bottom, as we've been doing for thousands of years. These young hipster types, they know what's up! Disrupting organization of hierarchies is the new Snapchat! In the future, we're all going to evolve Cookie Monster eyes to be able to coordinate these masonry messes.
Right now, nodejs shines anywhere you need websockets and I personally want to see the modern web move to websockets. It allows for much more cool interactions than the server being unable to get data to the client without the client either clicking on something or constantly polling. On a bb software, having the "this thread has unread posts" indicator update without a page reload would be great, and websockets make that easy.
Maybe I just too traditional, but there are far more mature back end frameworks available, without the warts of JS. For me I prefer to see a need or justification of using the latest software trends, not just because "its modern" or "that's how we do things nowadays" (a genuine response to a project I am involved in when I asked the case for using Node).
Node.js obviously has some use cases where it will shine, but I wouldn't have thought a BB was one of these places, as its quite a traditional kind of app.