Justoverclock can you share the error message?

All my dev + prod environments are still running PHP 7.3 or 7.4 at this time so I haven't tested it on PHP 8 myself yet.

      ColereCachee this extension appears to not be compatible with PHP 8 because one of its dependencies isn't compatible with PHP 8.

        a month later

        Versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 for Flarum stable

        I have pushed two new versions of Fake Data which will only work on the upcoming Flarum stable release.

        If you are running a dev-master copy of Flarum, you can run the following command to install Fake Data:

        composer require migratetoflarum/fake-data:*

        If you haven't already updated your extension requirements to use *, you can also run the command above in preparation for the future update. This won't update Fake Data yet, but it will update your composer.json file so that it won't block the update once Flarum 1.0 is released.

        Version 1.0.0 updates the requirements for Flarum 1.0 while 1.0.1 switches to a fork of the Faker library that is compatible with PHP 8.

        4 months later

        Version 1.1.0

        • Add ability to seed from command line (see README for documentation)
        • Support both array and comma-separated for array parameters (REST API)
        • Update tag meta (last discussion and discussion count). Only for newly seeded discussions, not seeded replies
        • Update discussion first post relationship (previously wasn't set on seeded discussions)
        7 months later

        Version 1.2.0

        Performance improvements

        Previously inserting tens or hundred of thousands of discussions and posts was simply not possible due to taking hours. Now it takes only tens of seconds to a few minutes.

        • Inserts in batch of 100 for users and posts: currently not possible for discussions but massively improves users and posts already.
        • Randomization in memory instead of using database, brings massive improvements to non-bulk mode but also speeds up discussion selection for post inserts in bulk mode.
        • Code now wrapped in a database transaction: speeds up operations globally (added optional --no-transaction CLI flag to disable).

        Other changes

        • Seeder output now visible from web interface as well (previously command-line only). Only updates once finished!
        • Execution time for each step added to output.
        • Hide reply seeder button for non-admins.
        • No longer pick private discussions as part of random pool when no discussion count was provided.
        • Fix discussion meta sometimes not updated when using command line.

        This update requires Flarum 1.2+ due to the upgrade to Webpack 5.

        2 months later

        Version 1.2.1

        This release fixes a PDO error during the meta update when trying to seed more than 65k records at once

        7 days later

        Version 1.3.0

        Added compatibility with Flarum 1.3 new post numbering logic.

        This release as well as future releases will only work on Flarum 1.3+

        It's a complete coincidence that the Flarum version and extension version match 😇

        2 months later

        Folks, can I flush the data with this plugin after testing is done?

          jdoe no.

          clarkwinkelmann There is no way to mass delete the generated data.

          If you only created discussions, you could use Mass Actions to disable multiple discussions at once.

          If you need to do tests on production data, you should create a backup first, do the tests on a copy and discard the copy once finished.

              2 months later

              Version 1.4.0

              • Added reply seed button to blog article pages if v17development/flarum-blog is enabled.
              9 days later

              Please don't have any ideas of using ChatGPT to create fake discussions... 🙂

                MPA unless there's a free offline library that can be used, it's definitely not something I would add to this extension.

                The goal isn't really to generate human-like content, but just to stress test Flarum.

                I do plan to add more formatting to the randomly generated messages in future updates, but there's not really a need for AI for this purpose.

                • MPA replied to this.

                    clarkwinkelmann

                    Agree, but there's the "fake it till you make it", so maybe this could be useful to quick start a forum. No one want to post on an empty forum.

                        MPA that's really not the use case of this extension. It's not meant for production forums, only to create test data for development and stress testing.

                        Using this extension in production could result in fake data being attributed to real users which wouldn't be good.

                            clarkwinkelmann Fake data can't be attributed to real users if a forum does not have any real users yet.

                              8 months later

                              clarkwinkelmann is this extension still alive and being worked on and is it able to be used with the current iteration of Flarum? I get that this is necroposting but 🤷🏻‍♂️.

                                  d351r3d yes it's still fully compatible. We always try to add the "Incompatible" tag to extension discussions on this forum if an extension cannot be installed on the latest Flarum.