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It's not down. I use a forum hosted there and that's working fine .

tankerkiller125 I can't open either freeflarum.com nor my forum I set up, https://thepowerofozone.flarum.cloud . Could you tell me if you can access that forum ?

PaolaDziwetzki that link for your forum works fine for me ?

[deleted] Ok, thank you. Then I think it's my internet connection. I've been having problems with a few other websites and it turned out it was my internet provider. It's probably the same problem. Thanks for checking!

PaolaDziwetzki pleasure.

@Sanguine is there any geo blocking in place on freeflarum ? If you see the previous post, we have a user who's having issues accessing his forum, and it may be that the IP address he's using is perhaps blacklisted ? Everything works fine for me.

Thanks

Sanguine PS I am absolutely baffled as to why someone would want to damage FreeFlarum. Probably a bored teenager

Also a drawback of running so many forums from one ip

Sanguine I know. But as meetdilip points out. Only one forum needs an enemy to do a ddos on the forum ip for all forums to be impacted.

luceos true, but not necessarily the case. It's possible that the IP address itself is a target from a range or subnet, or has even been hit by mistake. Nonetheless, a DDoS of that magnitude can be bought in the dark web for less than your weekly coffee cost. Remember that a DDoS is virtually all cases it not from one lone IP. It's an army of unknowing and unwilling zombies that have been created by previous compromise and are under influence of a C&C (command and control).

All the originators of the attack do is provide a list of targets, them flip a switch to start it. What's more likely is that the IP you are using has been previously attributed to an institution that had been a target before, and they've changed their IP range in order to curb the attacks. You've landed up with that IP and now are using the price.

Check DNS blacklists first and see if you're IP is listed. Failing that, it's a dark web search to see how you've been targeted, or change your IP which is always going to be quicker and cleaner.

Sanguine I shield attacks like this using imunify-360. Because of the nature of my site and what I do, I'm frequently exposed to DDoS. The largest one so far is around 1Tb - and it was stopped by imunify360 without even hitting the NGINX gateway

Hi, is it possible to add member badges, the old way ?

meetdilip What is the old way? Is this FF related?

Hello, I just started a new free forum - I picked Flarum because of its design plus getting away from the apples and googles of this world appealed to me. I do have some questions :

• I see a user list in settings, but i cannot find it anywhere. Is this an extension i need to download?
• Can i install a theme?
• A login (with emailadress) with nickname from 5 letters didn't work, it did function with 12 letters - is this an incident or something else?
• Can i place subdiscussions? Like a directory structure?
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Luutz I see a user list in settings, but i cannot find it anywhere. Is this an extension i need to download?

User directory by FriendsOfFlarum

Luutz Can i install a theme?

Extensions > Themes
Resources > Styles

Luutz A login (with emailadress) with nickname from 5 letters didn't work, it did function with 12 letters - is this an incident or something else?

Your own username has 5 letters.

Luutz Can i place subdiscussions? Like a directory structure?

You can use two levels of tags to organise your discussions, e.g. Extensions > Themes or Resources > Styles in this forum here (see above).