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

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Tnx Pollux. That helped a lot. I can only use the themes that are made ready on the built in freeflarum extensions, right?
So only Light Shadow?
I have the Light Shadow theme, but I do not see tags (in left menubar ) nor do i understand how to make a tag.... IS that coming up after 6 or so discussions or how does that work?

The nickname issue seems solved, it was on an android phone - perhaps that was the problem..

Luutz I can only use the themes that are made ready on the built in freeflarum extensions, right?

No, you can write your own theme extension. Or, much simpler to beginn with and the only way with FreeFlarum, tinker with some CSS rules in your browser (e.g. 'inspect element' in Firefox when you right click any part of a website) and once you have found a new rule you like you can copy the CSS rule into the 'custom CSS' box under the 'appearance' section of your admin panel.

One example: Let's assume, you want to change the background color of quotes in a discussion. In the browser right click on any quote and choose 'inspect element'. You should find yourself in the middle of the <blockquote> element:

<blockquote class="uncited">
    <div>
        <p>
            <a href="https://discuss.flarum.org/d/7585/1337" class="PostMention" data-id="131304">Sanguine</a>
            What is the old way? Is this FF related?
        </p>
    </div>
</blockquote>

The <p> element will likely be collapsed and look like <p>...</p>, you can open it if you are interestet in the innards.

Now you have to search for the background color, it could be applied to the <blockquote> element, the <div> inside or the <p> element. It turns out to be in the <blockquote> element:

.Post-body blockquote {
    font-size: inherit;
    border: 0;
        border-top-color: currentcolor;
        border-top-style: none;
        border-top-width: 0px;
        border-bottom-color: currentcolor;
        border-bottom-style: none;
        border-bottom-width: 0px;
    background: #e7edf3;
    color: #667d99;
    border-radius: 4px;
    padding: 8px 15px;
    border-top: 2px dotted #fff;
    border-bottom: 2px dotted #fff;
    margin: 1em 0;
        margin-top: 1em;
}

Change the value of background as you like, eg. a little bit darker: #d7dde3.

Now copy the CSS block and remove anything you don't need, that's what you put into your 'custom CSS' box:

.Post-body blockquote {
    background: #d7dde3;
}

Et voilá, you first customization of your Flarum instance.

Haha well I am more someone who looks for the ready set themes - but i'll give it a shot if i find the time.

What about the tags, I cannot find how that works anywhere, plus it is not in the left menu. Is there somewhere a description?

Luutz I am more someone who looks for the ready set themes

Then you miss most of the fun...

What about the tags, I cannot find how that works anywhere, plus it is not in the left menu.

You mean the sections in the admin panel? Well, there is one section named 'Tags', don't you have that?

This was... so easy. Thank you to the creators of Free Flarum! You can't imagine my surprise and joy at discovering Free Flarum.

Luutz you need to enable the tags extension. See also the FAQ on the freeflarum site.

Thanx that helps!

Is it safe to use Free Flarum?

Gui Flarum is a well maintained software, and there are no indications that FreeFlarum isn't taking security seriously.

Are you looking for specific information?

clarkwinkelmann Gui Flarum is a well maintained software, and there are no indications that FreeFlarum isn't taking security seriously.

Are you looking for specific information?

No, I was just wondering if I can create a Forum with Free Forum and if that is safe.

Gui We're pretty on top of our community here, we respond quickly to reports that something is insecure or broken that might be causing a lot of issues. So if we were getting reports that FreeFlarum was putting our Flarum community in danger, you can be assured that we would take action.

That's not the case, FreeFlarum has never been suspected of vulnerabilities or of compromising its users' information. You can be pretty certain that it's secure. We're happy to have Sanguine here providing this service.

debynory No sorry

Gui What do you mean with "safe"? Safe from eavesdropping by the Chinese government? Probably yes. Will it protect you from STDs? No.

Sounds amazing! Great work!

Sanguine Will it protect you from STDs? No.

espectrunk Sounds amazing! Great work!

Gui Is it safe to use Free Flarum?

Safety aspects have already been addressed. In addition, you can even move your community at Freeflarum to your own server at any time, should you want to do so at some point in the future, for whatever reason.