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.
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.
FreeFlarum exists for 2 months now. Thanks for all the great contributions, questions and encouragements so far! Some figures:
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:
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.
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?
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:
@Sanguine creating a community - heavy daily work on content, attracting users, forming the core of users. This will last until the moment when the community starts to generate content itself - maybe 6 months, maybe a year. Depends on the idea of the community and the degree of involvement in the idea. For example, I would not have thought ? https://forum.kozovod.com/ unique community, this is not a flarum.
Flurum is a baby, compared to other engines. A simatic baby who already knows how to crawl. But not anymore. Nodb, vanilla, discourse, xenforo and others are big uncles compared to flarus. And most people have the idea of creating a community: I've seen a forum - I want the same. There is a fray flair, and he can not, for example, insert a picture into the message ? All. The idea died - "it does not turn out like I've seen."
Idea 1. I believe that you need to create an idea around Freeflarum. Type tumblr.com - just not blogs, but a forum.
Idea 2. Customer support forums for small businesses - who can not pay $ 20 for hosting a discourse.
sorry for my English
Sanguine six months with no login on any admin account? Adjust as you're comfortable.
Sanguine Why? And how could I resolve your concerns?
I don't use a free hosting for a serious project because it always have limitations and soon or later you will need to perform customizations or advanced stuff that isn't available on free hostings. It also looks unprofessional in my opinion. Nowadays hosting is cheap and i have enoughth knowledge tu configure and run my own server.
With free hostings there is a degree of uncertainty about how my data is being treated and how long the service will remain online and free. It may be that from one day to the next, the service disappears and you lose years of work.
Sanguine 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?
Most of new users that arrive here, are interested into Flarum to build a community. Then they choose what to do. The success rate it's not something that you can control in my opinion, because there are no rules that guarantee you a successful community, everything depends on the creativity of each user.
Sanguine Also, if you wouldn't use it yourself, then for what kind of people do you think it would be a good option?
Is a good option for people that don't want to deal with server configuration and maintenance. Also support is something very valued at present, sometimes even more than the performance of the service itself.
I have not tried your service, but for me to call my attention, I would have to offer something great. Some examples are:
But... these features can't be offered by a free service.
Sanguine As mentioned before me, communities takes time.
However, I also think some might be scared away due to the lack of any money generated from your side. It does to some extent create the impression the service might be taken down at some point in the near future.
Additional believe you need to provide premium upgrades (I started writing a larger list of things it could include, however @Zeokat made a good list above.
@Sanguine you can also send a fancy little email stating inactivity and temporary access restriction after a certain amount of time ?
Also, as a person who has tried to run communities for over 11 years, I think you deserve my highs and lows of forming a community and how all my projects failed or went down the drain due to inactivity of the community members.
EDIT: OH, and also MIA staff members, lets not forget about them so quickly!
