I remember seeing 100 users limit mentioned somewhere in this topic. Is this still the case?
Looking at https://www.freeflarum.com/about and I don't see any of that now. Does it mean that there are no hard limit on database size\amount of users\bandwith?
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Flagrow Upload is wat i missing.
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Fla Someone confirmed his site in google console (google webmaster)? If so, how?
At the moment, it is not possible unfortunately. In the future, it would be possible to use header tags, but for that, Flarum requires an setting/extension to add custom <head> tags (at the moment it will put the custom head in the <body>).
Trost I remember seeing 100 users limit mentioned somewhere in this topic. Is this still the case?
Currently, the limits are five times the average of all users of the service (see terms).
Will merge it when it is updated to work with beta8!
wumix Flagrow Upload is wat i missing.
This free service will not provide uploading of custom files (apart from avatars). But in the future, the paid version might do so.
@Sanguine My forum is located on the domain, not the subdomain. From the words of the domain registrar, I can not write CNAME for Freeflarum and TXT for Google. So I can not confirm through the registrar (namecheap). Alternatively: google analytics, google tag, html doks, tag html. None of the alternative options work. I put the Google Analytics code into the Custom header - the counter is working, and I can not confirm the item through Google Analytics. Google console does not see the Google Analytics code. So I was hoping that the Google Analytics extension would be useful.
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Fla Thanks, you are right, and the domain (DNS) validation is not possible with CNAME. So Google Search Console does not work at the moment (updated post above).
Added to todo list: test whether https://github.com/flagrow/flarum-ext-analytics puts the analytics code in the actual <head> and implement on freeflarum.
Would it be possible for this extension to be added?
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/4144-onesignal-integration-extension-for-web-push-notifications
GamingGeekHD That extension doesn't work from my tests.
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Sanguine Добавлено в список todo:
Is it possible to install the module in the near future? Beta8 can go out in the summer. Модуль важный. Может он позволит обойти ограничение по верификации в Google Search Console?
Someone is dealing with https://matomo.org/ ? Can he consider it as an alternative?
Can your future customers be interested in this service?
@Sanguine Have you thought about enabling brotli compression on your server? At low settings it's much faster than gzip while staying close to the same size and at medium-ish settings it's both slightly faster and smaller than gzip.
Ideally, you could precompress the assets (either offline or during their creation) at the highest settings and offer better performance / smaller sizes than dynamic compression. That's the gzip_static / brotli_static settings in nginx.
On a related note, h2o is a promising HTTP server that supports brotli, precompression and HTTP/2 prioritization out of the box, with the smallest configuration file I've ever seen.
Fla Is it possible to install the module in the near future?
Done! Could you verify whether it is now possible to do Google Search Console verification using a Google Analytics account?
JoshyPHP Have you thought about enabling brotli compression on your server
That's a great suggestion. I love to squeeze every last ms of performance out of it ? Although I plan to first look into setting up geographically dispersed servers, as that will likely give a huge perf improvement for Asian/US visitors right now.
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? FreeFlarum 2 month celebration & evaluation
FreeFlarum exists for 2 months now. Thanks for all the great contributions, questions and encouragements so far! Some figures:
- 533 forums
- 1980 posts
- 1037 users
- 99.93% uptime
- 37 private support issues resolved
- 31 extensions supported
- 1 public patch and 7 private patches implemented
My objective of creating a low barrier Flarum trial service seems to be a success! However, the objective of helping people to create online communities seems not, as most users aren't really running an active forum.
What could be the reason people don't pursue an active forum on FreeFlarum? And what could I do to help them? I'm thinking about sending a survey to all the subscribers, but first I would like to ask for your wisdom so I can tailor the survey for maximum result. Thanks for your input!
For starters, a generic decomposition:
- User is disappointed by the FreeFlarum service
- User is disappointed by the Flarum software
- User did not intend to build an active forum in the first place.
- User is disappointed in the amount of effort required to build a community
- ... ?
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Sanguine Maybe most of those users simply use FreeFlarum to test the forum functionality and then leave.
Communities are hard to build, you can get new users with many strategies, but the most powerful and simple one is not available in Flarum, SEO. The probability of success of a public community without minimum quality requirements, is very low. Private communities are another different story.
My personal experience, if it helps, is the next. In the forum of my project there are over 150 discussions and five registered users, of which only 3 are active, but over 50 daily visits are exceeded. It is true that it is the first time that I try to create a public community and that I do not have the experience to get active users, but it is something that I hope will improve over time. At least, the quality contents gives me visits (from Google). But the contents are not motivating the registration and participation of new users. It's something that i have to change and improve.
The simplest part of building a community is to install and configure the forum system. The really difficult thing is to get that community to move forward. I would like to know how many of the users that created a forum in FreeFlarum have analyzed the feasibility of their project and detailed the content and promotion strategy. Surely none.
Honestly, if i have to build a community for a serious project, i never choose a free hosting. Even so, I think that FreeFlarum can be a good option to create small communities quickly but nowadays Discord and other messaging apps win.
Sanguine it might be worth putting in an expiration date for inactive forums.
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Sanguine thanks, it turned out to confirm https://example.com and https://www.example.com, but http://example.com http://www.example.com does not confirm ? in any case, it's better than it was.
Fla http: // www. does not confirm
That is by design, because FF force redirects everything to https (for SEO purpose). But great to hear that the Search Console is now working for you!
Zeokat for a serious project, i never choose a free hosting
Why? And how could I resolve your concerns?
jordanjay29 an expiration date for inactive forums.
Do you think that would encourage users to step up their commitment to building a community? What expiration term would you suggest?
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Zeokat Maybe most of those users simply use FreeFlarum to test the forum functionality and then leave.
Most certainly you are right! So you suggest that the primary reason for leaving, is that they underestimate the amount of effort required to build a community? If that's true, what could I do to improve the success rate? Perhaps:
- Tell people upfront what the effort looks like
- Help people with a guide on how to build a community
- ... ?