arteteco I update extensions once in a while or so (not remembering exactly which ones, mostly the language ones, which shouldn't be causing any issues, but I can check FF's commit history).

I'm not home right now, but can I create a test account at your forum to test it out when I return? Meanwhile, try looking at JavaScript console for errors. But I don't remember an extension that modifies the post count (or similar related things), so I guess that it is a bug in Flarum core (or even a bug with your browser cache, there are many possible sources).

arteteco

flarum.ERROR: Swift_TransportException: Expected response code 250 but got code "550", with message "550 5.1.0 <info@asnuaps.it> Connessione da <IP address redacted> temporaneamente rifiutata / Connection from <IP address redacted> temporarily rejected.

Seems like you're having some mail issues with your provider, but this shouldn't be related to post count(?) Better check it just to be sure. That's all I see for now, I'm going home right now so I'll check it.

FYI when I register an account, the same issue appears (and the mail doesn't arrive) @arteteco.

I couldn't reproduce the issue either. Could you try to reproduce it in Incognito mode (to see if it's a browser cache problem) or try different browser? Other than that, I can't really help you, if the issue is not FreeFlarum related, sorry.

The New Year is coming soon, so I'd like to thank you everyone for staying with FreeFlarum throughout this difficult year! Let's hope that 2021 is gonna be a better one. Stay safe everyone!

As for some kind of a "New Year" present from us, we've spent quite some time implementing some new features to FreeFlarum, mainly one that has been requested a lot: rename your forum!

From now on, you will see a new section called "Rename Your Forum" in your account settings at FreeFlarum. It was tough to make it work, but it's here.

As for forums without a custom domain, it should work without any errors (standard FreeFlarum setup). But if any errors appear (or your forum stops working), please let us know.

But that's not everything! Our status page has got a new and fresh look, with more information on each error that might appear (and what should you do). We're also immediately noticed about any of those errors, so you don't have to report them to us.

Another feature I'd like to give a word about is that you can now reset your site settings! This won't completely erase your forum and database, but it will reset your mail settings, your custom CSS, header and footer and it'll also disable all extensions. This is useful if your forum broke because of some extension and you can't access your admin panel, so you can fix it yourself now! But be sure to still report that issue to us so that we can fix it, please. You can find this feature in your settings page at FreeFlarum, just like with the rename function.

geoffalan After a while, the logged in user times out. When you click a link, instead of prompting to log back in, it gives a permissions error. This could be confusing to users who don't know they need to log back in. Any solution to redirect them to re-login?

I don't think so. You should address this as a feature request for Flarum, or maybe it's just a bug and the user should be prompted to log-in. Not sure.

I am using the FoF Links extension and clicking between the links does not refresh the page if anything has changed. Is there a way to force a refresh? (I have enabled Pusher which does push a notification of a new post or reply, but not deleted ones.)

Again, this should be addressed to the developers of the FoF Links. We can't change how extensions or Flarum works, because we maintain none of that (we're not affiliated with Flarum, we're just a community provided service). Might be a bug, might not be, but we can't help.

If you share your forum URL, I can look at the logs for potential errors, but to be honest I don't think that there is anything wrong and it's just how the extension and Flarum works. I remember that FoF Links has a setting for whether the link is a Flarum link or not (whether to just load the page as single-page application or not, I guess). What I mean is that you could try adjusting certain settings a bit, maybe it'll work the way you want it.

xdass when custom domain is renamed

So, when you change your custom domain? But that's something that you should be able to do - we can't redirect from your old domain, because we do not own it.

If you mean redirect on forum name change, then that's not possible either. That's why we've put a warning to "think twice before you rename your forum". In other words, "rename at your own risk and don't forget to notify your users before you do so". Yes, we could probably implement a system that will redirect users from the old forum to the new one for some time, but it's not as easy as it seems and it would require another time to develop.

If you're really brutal though, you can rename your forum and register a new one with the old name. Then, write a simple JavaScript to redirect users to the new forum, eg.: window.onload > window.location bla bla bla there are tutorials on the internet and delete the forum after some time. But I do not recommend doing this because it's a brutal and useless, overcomplicated workaround.

If you mean when you simply link your custom domain for the first time and redirect users from FreeFlarum's domain to yours, then I am pretty sure that that's a thing already.

xdass I see. Well, its not happening, not soon at least...

The redirect is simple (from Nginx config), but making it last only for some time would require us to get our hands dirty. And just reserving the redirect forever would then have to make it impossible to register a forum with that name (also when we would just have a temp redirect). And if somebody would change the name of their forum multiple times, then multiple redirects would be made. We could make a cooldown between renaming, but that's another work, or just limit the renaming, and so on and so forth... It's complicated (just like making it at least work somehow )

But I am actually thinking of implementing something like "max renames", or maybe just let people change the name only once, mainly to prevent abuse. Not sure, we'll see how it goes (if people will use ir much or if they'll be responsible).