NodeBB's engine supports both cold-loads from server-side and ajax-loaded pages. So if you browse NodeBB via JS-disabled browser for example, it will still work (read-only)
Thanks for the feedback and all. Wish we'd get on this page a few months from now because we're still in heavy development. Bugs and all that - our community/demo is pretty much running a nightly build ;)
Just wanted to say, the "pinterest" homepage is just a theme. We've got an extensible API and an easy (hopefully) theming engine. Just to show you how different it can look like, open up http://convoe.com, give it a shot on your mobile as well - it's awesome. There are some themes out there that have a basic traditional view as well.
I'd like to say we're really working on the engine a lot, and once everything is stable we'll blow full steam ahead on cool themes, some traditional, some "modern" (whatever you like to think of that as). We also have almost 100 plugins in such a short amount of time, which hopefully shows how extensible our forum is.
We also have a widget system - you can drag and drop widgets on the home/sidebar/header etc. and replace components out. Here's an example of what I mean: http://i.imgur.com/GObRKQq.png
Please star us on GitHub and feel free to fork us and join our community, I'd love to hear what you guys think on how we can improve even more. :)
