Staff Diary: v2.0 Cycle

luceos

Flarfan79 no. Though making flarum multi site compatible is possible, that's how freeflarum operates too; one codebase multiple communities. But as part of Flarum commercial we will likely publish a multi tenancy extension commissioned by a client within the next few months.

Flarfan79

luceos luceos Oh that's great. Is that something that will allow multilanguage sites with separate forums for different languages?

JFOC

luceos is this published yet?

luceos

Flarfan79 probably not.

GoodTimes

luceos upgrade to laravel 10

But why 10? Laravel 11 is already released.

luceos

GoodTimes because 10 was the latest version when we planned and executed on the upgrade. It is very likely we will do another upgrade before releasing 2.0. Laravel 11 is very new, March 12th in fact.

Derbosik

It'd be very neat to implement meta tags like og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url (visible when sending the link to someone on discord for example). Each site would have its specific og:description.

Example documentation

treyb

Derbosik I use justoverclock/og-meta-tag and am very happy with the results.

Derbosik

treyb But that one isn't site specific, like a forum post would have a different description and title. A profile would have the profile image instead of the forum image and so on.

luceos

I've fixed an issue with the demos these past few days. There seemed to have been a misconfiguration between Cloudflare and the new server. The demos were down for quite a while probably, and I've only noticed it because I was changing nightly.flarum.site to show the work-in-progress version of Flarum 2. I will look at adding our main demo to our monitoring system as soon as possible.

https://nightly.flarum.site now runs 2.x

In the past weeks I pushed forward on releasing the new website for flarum.org (currently visible on next.flarum.org) while making the necessary preparations for Extiverse. An email update will be sent to all its users this week.

https://next.flarum.org

serdo

luceos Is installation possible on normal hosting?

Chope

luceos https://nightly.flarum.site now runs 2.x

Currently offline, Sire.

SychO

Hello again 👋,

One of the major highlights is that Flarum 2.0 will now support SQLite and PostgreSQL, making installation on these platforms possible. This is a significant step forward in widening the range of options for our users.

After working on this for the past weeks, both pull requests have been submitted for internal review: (flarum/framework3984, flarum/framework3985).

It's important to note, however, that while Flarum 2.0 will support these databases, it doesn't automatically guarantee that all third-party extensions will seamlessly work with them. In the future we recommend checking with extension developers for compatibility or updates related to SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Till the next update.

luceos

serdo Flarum has always and will always aim to be installable on shared hosting first and foremost. Especially with the extension manager this has become a lot easier, it is still advised to have shared hosting that allows ssh/terminal access though.

serdo

luceos I want to install it on hosting, is there the latest version? And how should I go about installing plugins on hosting?

luceos

serdo you can find this information over in the docs, see: https://docs.flarum.org/install#installing

If you use any of the archives, the extension manager will be installed by default.

luceos

Chope fixed.

treyb

Derbosik Correct, it only pulls the predetermined image. I do not believe there is an extension or default that uses profile image in this way. I do know that if you share a post, and that post includes an image, that post image is used as og:image.

HasanMerkit

What about multi-language Tags officialy?

GoodTimes

HasanMerkit What do you mean? Please elaborate.

luceos

European Union to abolish NGI funds

Flarum 2.0 is funded entirely by a grant organized through NLnet; feel free to read about that history here.

@SychO, @IanM and myself have been able to dedicate our time to building the next version of our community software while being compensated through this grant. The European Union is now no longer interested in funding open source. For an institute that should have all our interests clear as day, we seem to head into the direction of unsustainable open source projects. In the meantime the xkcd meme is only gaining in importance with countless projects facing maintainer burnout, financial burden, or other various reasons causing massive issues around the globe:

log4j 2021: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/log4j-vulnerability-what-everyone-needs-to-know
colors.js and faker.js 2022: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected
xz 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

And these are the projects we are aware of. Supply chain attacks are more common than ever, the bigger the project, the weightier the burden of maintenance and doubling when actually progressively developing for the future.

Please, I ask all of you to stand with us to prevent open source projects from losing a fundamental investment to the benefit of the project and maintainers' health.

Share with us, speak up and help us 🙏

Ref: https://kde.org/announcements/2024_ngi_openletter/

PS I will be signing the letter on behalf of our project.

dragsugur

luceos does this mean that you guys wont be getting the funds?

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