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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

                                    Silverteal yes, that's the new IP after we have migrated to a different server (still located in EU). But there shouldn't be any speed decrease in comparison to the server before.

                                    We have already discussed a multi-server architecture to increase site loading speed for forums in China. This will require some work, effort and time to implement of course, and time is something we don't always have. Plus, servers cost money too.

                                    I will do a page speed tests to see what can be improved. I have to note that it also depends on your network conditions and internet speed as well.

                                    Edit: Yes, can confirm that China locations in the speed test don't seem to load at the moment (https://www.chinafy.com/tools/visual-speed-test?site=https://skeleton.freeflarum.com&network=WiFi)

                                        Hmm, for some reason disk usage is 100 % already?! Might be why your forum doesn't load. I'll investigate it...

                                        cuongtran did you try disabling the extension ? There is some backend changes, but this could be an extension related error.

                                            cuongtran If you are not in a hurry, wait a bit. Once the backend changes are addressed, +CW_Kevo might be able to attend this issue like he mentioned in the above post.

                                            Normally, when extension-related changes break a website, switching it off is a standard method in troubleshooting.