Episode 773 transcript

FLOSS-773 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 773, recorded Wednesday, March 6th. NodeBB, don't do the math. Hey, this week we talk with Julian Lamb about NodeBB. It's open source forum software that brings the idea of the forum into the modern age. There's some neat tricks it knows, like forking forum threads, talking on the Fediverse, and more. Hey, it's a great interview, you don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey, hello, it is time for Floss Weekly. Weekly, that's a show about free Libre and open source software. I am your host, Jonathan Bennett, and I've got Jeff Massey with me today. The one, the only welcome, sir. Oh, good to Jeff: be here. Always, always love a crossover episode. Jonathan: Yes. I, I love having one more co host that has some availability to help with the juggling. So I appreciate that. Well, today we're talking about, we're talking about Node BB, which is Bulletin, not really bulletin board, but I believe it stands for bulletin board. Uh, software, so it's forum software that runs on top of node. js, which I kind of got started with the, the whole PHP side of things. So sometimes when I hear node. js, I'm like, uh, we'll try not to hold that against…