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Collecting the formatting I use most, so new members can copy it.

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fmt.Println("hello from casnode")

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Mention someone with @ and their user name, like @priya_r.

We have about 3,000 topics on a self-hosted Discourse. Moving would be much easier with an importer. Is anyone working on one?

Yes, you can combine these with your words:

For example postgres #configuration order:likes.

Every topic, category, tag and profile page is rendered on the server, so the full text is in the HTML. On top of that:

• canonical URLs, Open Graph tags and DiscussionForumPosting structured data on topics
• /sitemap.xml, and RSS at /latest.rss and /top.rss
• robots.txt that keeps private pages out
• ?page= links on lists and long topics that crawlers can follow
• a topic URL with an old slug redirects to the current one

Set site_url on the Site Settings page, so that canonical URLs and the sitemap use your domain.

Yes, all of it is on Admin → Site Settings → Branding:

• logo and favicon
• brand, accent and header colors, each with a dark-mode variant
• fonts
• header links (Label,URL|Label,URL)
• the homepage banner: title, text, image and whether it shows the search box
• custom CSS for anything else

This demo uses the logo, the banner and the header links. Changes on that page apply right away.

No Casdoor needed. You need Go 1.25+, Node.js 20+ and Yarn 1:

git clone https://github.com/casnode/casnode
cd casnode
echo "devSignin = true" > conf/app.local.conf
go run .          # backend on http://localhost:16900, SQLite file casnode.db

cd web
yarn install
yarn dev          # frontend on http://localhost:13900 with hot reload

Open http://localhost:13900/login and sign in as admin (or any user name). devSignin only answers requests from the same computer; never turn it on on a server.

The pages are in web/src/app, the components in web/src/components, and the translations in web/src/lib/locales.

Docker is the quickest. The repository has a Dockerfile, so build the image and run it:

git clone https://github.com/casnode/casnode
cd casnode
docker build -t casnode .
docker run -d -p 16900:16900 -v casnode-data:/app/data \
  -e casdoorEndpoint=https://door.casdoor.com -e clientId=<client id> -e clientSecret=<client secret> \
  -e casdoorOrganization=<organization> -e casdoorApplication=<application> -e admins=<your user name> \
  casnode

Then open http://your-server:16900. The only other thing you need is a Casdoor application for sign-in: its client ID and secret go in the variables above, and https://<your forum>/callback goes in its redirect URLs.

By default the data is a SQLite file kept, together with the uploads, in the casnode-data volume, which is fine for a trial.