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Hi and welcome!

AA-Admiral can I use my own custom domain when registering through a flarum.cloud subdomain? For the first time, signing up on the site?

You can setup FreeFlarum to use your own subdomain right after you create your forum, from the settings (https://freeflarum.com/settings)

AA-Admiral I can see that flarum itself has reached release version 1.0 recently... will free flarum follow?

Of course, when most extensions update and when we finish the FreeFlarum rebase procees 👀. We're aware of the updates, and will upgrade all forums ASAP.

AA-Admiral one more question, if I outgrow the free flarum activity limits, how easy would it be to move my site to a VPS?

As easy as downloading your database and avatars, then importing it to your forum. Optionally, you can also install FreeFlarum's extensions as well. I plan to provide a simpler and better documentation after the rebase, but more on that later

          SKevo hello, thanks for all the answers, it pretty much satisfies my questions... thank you very much 😎

            For people who have problem with tiny blog box like me, you can disable Rich Text that may conflict.

            Can we pull recent changes? <3 It seems that devs repaired bug I mentioned some time ago.
            FriendsOfFlarum/filter23

            Undo change that prevented the filter from filtering

            Seems to be legit XD

            • IanM replied to this.

              aaronlbpeterman Unfortunately FreeFlarum won't be able to pull this version until they are able to upgrade to Flarum 1.0.

              I'm sure it won't be long, more and more extensions are becoming 1.0 ready every day 🙂

                  We'd like to update as soon as most extensions are compatible, and when we finish the rebase. Shouldn't be too long, and I expect us to update before the summer, e. g.: July, or one week after that. Until then, all you can do is wait :/

                  Also, I'd like to drop a quick note that we've increased the rate limit before 429 appears to allow more requests to be made in a short time for all forums. So, if you are a fast person and you navigate through your forum with haste, you are now less likely to be thrown away with a 429 error

                    SKevo

                    aaronlbpeterman

                    can I clarify about the limits of free flarum? 😅 according to the Terms and conditions, does this mean 250 users online at the same time? 🤔

                    so let's say for example 600 users registor on my sub forum, but only 190+ people are online on average at the same time, at any given time... do I or do the users get any penalty? or is this within the safe limits?

                    thanks. 😀

                          AA-Admiral 250 is the soft limit for all the registered users, the real limit for active ones is unknown as we didn't do any stress-testing and we don't have tools to test that.

                          I except that FreeFlarum could handle at around 50 online users at the same time, however this lowers with forum count (if 1000 forums all have 50 users online at same time, then we can't expect much from that - on the other hand, if all forums would have inactive users, then one forum could have even 100 users online).

                          Also, I think that the limit for registered users is way above 250, since they're just a data in database if they don't request anything. I assume that the 250 limit expects like 20 % of the users to be online concurrently, that makes 50 users at the same time. Hope that makes sense to you. I would also like to note that the limit wasn't calculated by me, and @Sanguine could provide you more info on that.

                              Hi!

                              I've tried using SMTP driver with Elastic Email, SendGrid and also use the Gmail example from the docs (with my credentials and without 2fa since I just created an account to test it out and did not activate this) but nothing seems to work.

                              The settings are saved without a problem, but when I try to send a test mail, I get the following: "You're going a little too quickly. Please try again in a few seconds."

                              But the thing is: I'm not going fast, I just logged on, went to the Admin > Email tab and pressed the Sent test mail button.

                              That happened yesterday and today I'm having the same issue. The same error, doesn't mater the provider: Elastic Email, SendGrid or Gmail.

                              Could you help me?

                                azeveco sending test mail is disabled, since it doesn't have any ratelimit enabled and allows people to send hundreds of mails as FreeFlarum in under a minute.

                                I will turn it off, since everyone thinks that it's broken, while it's not. We expect you to test it by using a forgotten password request email, or literally anything else that sends mails, since spamming with the test mail button is so easy. But other mail triggers could be spammed anyways, so I'll remove the restriction anyways

                                Edit: Removed, you can use the test mail button now

                                    SKevo hey, just tried all those services and none worked.

                                    Could you help-me? All informations are properly filled.

                                    Even the same example of the docs using gmail.

                                        azeveco

                                        1. Have you tried sending test mail? It should work now. If there are any errors, what do they say?
                                        2. What is your forum name?

                                            azeveco

                                            flarum.ERROR: Swift_TransportException: Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "<your username>" using 2 possible authenticators. Authenticator LOGIN returned 'Expected response code 250 but got an empty response'. Authenticator PLAIN returned 'Expected response code 250 but got an empty response'. in /app/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/Esmtp/AuthHandler.php:191

                                            Seems like your E-mail server is returning invalid response?

                                                SKevo that's weird, since I'm copying exactly what they tell me to. I'll try to contact them.

                                                Nevermind, it worked! Thanks a lot.

                                                The problem is that they say the username is 'apikey' and the api key is a value that I need to set to identify it. So naturally, I use the api key I set, but the username is 'apikey'.

                                                Weird.

                                                Thanks tho!

                                                  Hello, I created a Free Flarum forum. The problem is, you can poat any topics. It just come with the following error Oops! Something went wrong, try to reload the page !