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aaronlbpeterman

SKevo How can I do so? Through some extension? Can not really find it.

SKevo

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

I've meant how can I approve manually xd

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman Oh sorry, I misunderstood...

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.
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.
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

aaronlbpeterman

SKevo Aww I thought it's possible to let users register and then make admins / mods aprove account before they can post which techically is possible since I can auto assign them to group with no permissions but there is no automation for this everything is manual work, plus I have to check manually if there are new users pending for manual group change ;/

SKevo

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Upgrade done! All forums are back up now!

CC @askvortsov your extension now works:

I've installed the PWA and Discussion Language extensions. Upgrade done in cca. 40 minutes, great job!

Please, let us know if your forum doesn't work.

lakshya

SKevo Mine is still not available : (

gabrielpipolo

SKevo BROOOOOOO my reaction to seeing this update was like the cure of cancer was found!!! hahahaah Thank you so much guys, this is becoming the best platform for communities out there!! So happy to see so many changes in such small time window!

😆

SKevo

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.

lakshya

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

SKevo

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...

lakshya

SKevo only time will tell

🤣

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman there is currently no extension at FreeFlarum that fully automatizes user approval, so yes, you will have to monitor users manually and filter them from the bunch. The more users you have, the harder it becomes, so perhaps you should get more mods, or let some trusted users to help you with the work too.

But, the post approval extensions work quite well, so I'd work around that

askvortsov

aaronlbpeterman My Trust Levels extension should be able to help with that to some extent, and it should be available on freeflarum.

aaronlbpeterman

I've tried to enable some extension after update and got this:

Flarum encountered a boot error (Error)
Interface 'Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface' not found
thrown in /app/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Client.php on line 17
Error: Interface 'Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface' not found in /app/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Client.php:17
Stack trace:
#0 /app/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(476): include()
#1 /app/vendor/composer/ClassLoader.php(344): Composer\Autoload\includeFile()
#2 [internal function]: Composer\Autoload\ClassLoader->loadClass()
#3 [internal function]: spl_autoload_call()
#4 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(803): ReflectionClass->__construct()
#5 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(681): Illuminate\Container\Container->build()
#6 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(629): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolve()
#7 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(945): Illuminate\Container\Container->make()
#8 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(873): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolveClass()
#9 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(834): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolveDependencies()
#10 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(681): Illuminate\Container\Container->build()
#11 /app/vendor/illuminate/container/Container.php(629): Illuminate\Container\Container->resolve()
#12 /app/vendor/fof/upload/src/Providers/DownloadProvider.php(29): Illuminate\Container\Container->make()
#13 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/Application.php(177): FoF\Upload\Providers\DownloadProvider->register()
#14 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Extend/ServiceProvider.php(37): Flarum\Foundation\Application->register()
#15 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Extension/Extension.php(137): Flarum\Extend\ServiceProvider->extend()
#16 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Extension/ExtensionManager.php(334): Flarum\Extension\Extension->extend()
#17 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Extension/ExtensionServiceProvider.php(30): Flarum\Extension\ExtensionManager->extend()
#18 [internal function]: Flarum\Extension\ExtensionServiceProvider->Flarum\Extension\{closure}()
#19 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/Application.php(322): call_user_func()
#20 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/Application.php(263): Flarum\Foundation\Application->fireAppCallbacks()
#21 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/InstalledSite.php(148): Flarum\Foundation\Application->boot()
#22 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Foundation/InstalledSite.php(81): Flarum\Foundation\InstalledSite->bootLaravel()
#23 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Server.php(56): Flarum\Foundation\InstalledSite->bootApp()
#24 /app/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Server.php(33): Flarum\Http\Server->safelyBootAndGetHandler()
#25 /app/public/index.php(22): Flarum\Http\Server->listen()
#26 {main}

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman aware of it, working on a fix.

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman is the issue resolved now? If not, please give me your forum name so I can check the logs and see what I've missed, thanks

lakshya

SKevo My forum down again

SKevo

lakshya fixed... I had to re-install the extensions due to dependency issues (guzzle, web-push, etc...)

lakshya

SKevo OMG......have u enabled PUSH NOTIFCATIONS?????PLZ ANSWER QUICKLY

Techout592

SKevo Hey my forum is giving some type of error

SKevo

lakshya y-yes... Is there a problem? 😅

lakshya

SKevo No...........Extremely happy.........that's amazing.............u r brilliant, mindblowing, excellent,:

SKevo

Techout592 fixed, the forums just need to be synced again, since I've reinstalled the PWA extension to add push notifications support.

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