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rebastion Some good advice and it's something that not only Sanguine should take aboard but anyone else that may be offering a product or service however big or small. The second you go online you are basically trading internationally so at the very least you should have the small things in place to somewhat protect you and give peace of mind or at the very least provide for the early stages where people can start trusting you.

It does go a long way.

I know you have it already Sanguine but for the purpose of giving people context, you could go that one step further and set up an SSL certificate for your domain too. People tend to trust a domain or site more when there is one set up ESPECIALLY when offering a product or service. Privacy and data collection are major news and with the constant increases in more advanced technologies, more and more of our lives go online. People want to be protected and reassured.

      Prosperous but there is already an SSL certificate in play? I'm not sure if I'm understanding the first sentence in your last paragraph.

      I know you have it already Sanguine but for the purpose of giving people context, you could go that one step further and set up an SSL certificate for your domain too.

      FreeFlarum SSL

          Ralkage You quoted it... I mentioned that I know you already have it but for the purpose of mentioning it for readers in general. ?

              greetings. there was a problem - after installing extensions it is impossible to go into your profile and settings in the frontend. how can I delete the forum and reinstall it?

                Sanguine
                Sended but I do not know which extension caused the error so I wanted to reinstall the forum :С

                    Grume You could probably disable all extensions apart from the core extensions already enabled, and it should in theory solve the issue. There may not be a need to reinstall.

                        datitisev
                        Thanks!
                        I determined from what extension this error occurred - "Money"
                        this happens if you leave the extension settings empty!

                        I thought that everything had already broken and only the reinstallation would help ?

                          90% performance improvement in cache rebuilding

                          Flarum - while normally blazing fast - is slow with rebuilding the cache. Most time is spent with the JS minification which is either done using Google's service (5-30s) or with Matthias Mullie's PHP Minifier (5-120s).

                          A benchmark to rebuild all 230 FreeFlarum forum caches sequentially took almost an hour (15.4s per forum).

                          But alas, FreeFlarum has now replaced the PHP minifier with a Golang minifier. This gives slightly bigger JS (0.5%) at a reduction of 90% of execution time (now, just 1.5s per forum).

                          Before:
$ time reload_caches
  real	58m57.584s

And after:
$ time reload_caches
  real	5m45.291s

                          Free Flarum promises to stay free in exchange for a small amount of advertisements. Now, it seems fair to only show ads once people can actually upgrade to an ad-free plan. This feature is planned for the second half of 2018. So, no ads for now! :-D

                          However, FreeFlarum could use more link-rep. So I introduced a tiny, non-sticky "powered by" footer.

                          If you do not want this, you are allowed to hide the footer if you create a link to FreeFlarum elsewhere. So:

                          1. Create a link to https://www.freeflarum.com
                          2. Send the URL to info@freeflarum.com
                          3. Add #ff-footer { display:none; } to your custom CSS

                          Thanks!

                            Sanguine Hmm... You should think about turning it into an actual footer with a wrapper and all, plain text can kill a forum or forum hosting service. ?

                                Felli What do you mean with a wrapper? Examples welcome ?

                                    Sanguine An easy to use box-like effect you'd want to use something like the following, but I'm sure that other's could provide a better example of how to do this with Flarum.

                                    footer{
    width: 100%;
    padding: 25px;
    border: 25px solid navy;
    margin: 25px;
    border-radius: 15px;

    font-size: 2em;
    text-align: center;
    font-weight: bold;
}

                                      You sure about that?

                                      I was planning to keep it small and unobtrusive ?

                                      And still not sure what you mean by a "wrapper" ? There's already a div?

                                        Freeflarum is great, so i don't see any problem with this footer and ads that will be displayed in future. Maybe some background could be added if u want for footer to be seen even on custom backgrounds with dark colors etc.

                                        Felli I think I have a solution for him ? A small widget under the tags would be the best approach. A simple message at that.

                                            Ralkage I didn't even think of that, would be a better solution to the problem. ?