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Anybody else having issues trying to change their forum's custom domain?

    SlickNicky10 I have tested it now with my domain and it worked, could you try again now please?

    Current situation is that we have 5 more bugs to fix: 1 with backups not being created and 4 small ones. Keep in mind that we are doing what we can, but our spare time is very limited. We will provide some last minute fixes as soon as possible to ensure the stability of the service. If you see any other issues, please report them to us - by mail or this discussion. Thank you for being patient

        SKevo all issues mentioned should be patched (except for your beta forum, which we'll move away from production server anyways). If you experience any issues, please let us know.

        I will test beta.16 update tomorrow, and if everything goes well we might finally update all forums during the weekend.

          Hello,
          i am using free flarum, with Progressive Web App Configuration, i get this error (The gmp PHP extension and minishlink/web-push library (composer require minishlink/web-push) MUST be enabled for push notifications to work.)
          how can I fix it
          Thanks

            Is the website down? I can't get it to load.

              The WWW stopped working. I am not sure what caused our fix to break, but I admit that this is an error on my behalf - I wanted to remove WWW because it is outdated when we migrated. Turns out that yes, I have removed it - but Nginx WWW does not redirect to the working non-WWW for some reason

              For now, just always accessing https://freeflarum.com instead of https://www.freeflarum.com is applicable. I am looking for a fix right now

              Edit: Fixed

              How many users can register on my forum using FreeFlarum.com?

              Also, if I ever needed to could I download everything, posts, users, etc and import into a self hosted Flarum?

                WRDO fixed, syncing all extensions right now

                aaronhall How many users can register on my forum using FreeFlarum.com?

                The service applies a fair use policy towards resources (storage, server capacity and traffic) of free accounts.

                The limits are five times the average of all users of the service. Specifically, this means that no more than 250 users per forum are supported.

                This limit may be surpassed and your forum can function properly, however we do not provide support for forums above the limit because we don't officially support them - if you want to run a busy forum, your best option might be to self-host it instead.

                (as stated in https://freeflarum.com/docs/legal/terms/, rule 3)

                aaronhall Also, if I ever needed to could I download everything, posts, users, etc and import into a self hosted Flarum?

                Yes. You can download your database dump and avatars from https://freeflarum.com/settings

                        Okay, thanks!! So, if I understand right, my forum can have no more than 250 people join it?... if I want support? Anything past 250 I don't get support for my forum anymore, right?

                          aaronhall That's correct, because FreeFlarum was not made to support higher numbers. It is possible to have more users (some forums that we host do) but we can't fix things if your forum crashes or is slow

                            Cool! If mine made it to 250 I would be jumping up and down lol

                            I’m signed up. Going to use it until I can one day self host maybe. Love this software and support there. Glad I found it.

                              aaronhall FreeFlarum has been around for some time and have a proven track record on providing a really good way for new users of Flarum to get their own instance of the forum up and running with little to no effort.

                              For anyone that doesn't know, cannot afford or simply wants to have an extended trial run with their own Flarum forum, this is your answer. Both @Sanguine and @SKevo are always around to assist where they can too.

                              Keep up the good work guys. 😉

                                SKevo Sorry, it's been a bit since I've checked this thread. I tried yesterday and it still didn't work, I just tried again and it didn't work.

                                    SlickNicky10 what is your forum name and URL you are trying to CNAME to? If it's private, you can mail us the info

                                        SKevo Thanks, now it works great! GOD bless you

                                          If I ever want to take my forum to be self hosted...when I download my data and upload to my self hosted Flarum will my users have to re-sign up? Or will they automatically be added as members.

                                            aaronhall every data will be there - all users, posts, discussions, settings (basically everything that is stored in a Flarum database). So no, your users won't have to be signed up again - you download the dump, export it and you should be good to go from the point where you left

                                              I have my domain through Google Domains. It is also added as an Add On on my HostGator. Do I need to remove it as an Add On if I want to use the domain on FreeFlarum?

                                              Sanguine Now in China, the forum address is pointed to 157.90.175.185, and it will time out