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Thank you very much for the kind words @luceos! The feeling is of course mutual and I am very happy to be part of the Flarum community. And obviously thanks to everyone else that keeps Flarum awesome, hopefully for many, many years to come.

lakshya I've manually cleared the cache for your forum and migrated the database. Also, do you have the English language pack enabled? AFAIK it is required for translations to fallback to English ones, in case one is missing.

If the translations are still broken, then an extension most likely conflicts with another. But the most common problem for translations is the cache, which needs to be cleared once in a while, so check that again just in case

      SKevo You just clarify me these fields:-

      Since, changing username is giving the below error:-

      This nickname is invalid. Please contact your forum administrator for more information on nickname rules.

          lakshya I believe that you must enter a regular expression (RegEx) for the validation. Some online tools will help you to visualize the RegEx, such as https://regex101.com/. If you're new to it, there are plenty of Google tutorials that you can look at.

          If it still produces an error and the regex is valid, contact the authors of the extension. I think that the Nickname extension does not have a discussion, so you could create a new thread here on Discuss for further help.

              lakshya SKevo The regex is optional. However, now you have just the word "nickname", which does not match anything except for the word "nickname".

                  I see, I thought that the word "nickname" was just a placeholder. If you leave the field blank then it should work

                  I recieved the below mail from Google Search Console:

                  Can anyone help me how to fix this?

                    lakshya This isn't really related to FreeFlarum. If you have concerns about particular parts of the UI design of Flarum (which elements are close together exactly? I'm not sure what we can do to help given that you haven't shared the error report itself), feel free to open a separate discussion. Please keep in mind that FreeFlarum is a separate entity from Flarum, and exclusively focuses on hosting.

                      Can we use FreeFlarum to create paid membership websites?
                      Thanks.

                        aaronlbpeterman there's currently no extension that blocks VPN access, as far as I know.

                        You can always request it by creating a new discussion here with the "Feedback" tag though. Until then, you will sadly need to block all IPs and accounts manually...

                        For everyone else, I am going to upgrade FreeFlarum to a newer MariaDB version, so I can install some of the most requested extensions, that are compatible only with that version (and not the one that FreeFlarum uses). We already handled PHP 8 update pretty well, so I am going to try and upgrade MariaDB too. There will be a downtime, obviously, so I apologize for that. I hope that everything goes well and that FreeFlarum will be back up again soon.

                        Edit: Checking all databases right now. We're at letter Z, I think it'll take about 30 minutes for all forums Done! Now to finish it and bring it back online.

                          aaronlbpeterman Oh sorry, I misunderstood...

                          1. Closing the registration and registering users manually:
                            The "Create User Modal" allows you to quickly create users. You could just close the registration entirely and add new members manually.

                          2. Using the "Approval" extension to approve new posts:
                            The "First Post Approval" and "Approval" extensions allow you to approve posts of users before they are visible publicly, including permissions to bypass the approval. See 3.

                          3. Using groups:
                            I don't remember the name of the extension, but there is one that allows you to automatically assign a group to new users. You could limit permissions of that group to kind of just a "Untrusted" and then assign a "Trusted" group with permissions to make posts (or to bypass post approvals, while the "Untrusted" group could be able to create a discussions, but they require approval. See 2.

                          I am sure that there are plenty of other options, if you're creative enough - these are which I remembered from top of my head, since FF is currently down due to database upgrades

                              lakshya ah, I think that it's because of the extensions. That happens sometimes when we add new ones that are quite bigger - all forums will need to be synced first. And that takes some time, so please be patient... But after it's done, the extensions will be available automatically 🙂

                              I've synced all extensions for all forums to make sites quickly available for now, but the new extensions won't work yet.

                                  SKevo Its now available ......just want to ask will the problem i faced previously.....is resolved permanently or not?

                                      lakshya If you mean the user one, then I'd say that "only time will tell". Seriously, I have no idea. Might be fixed, might not...