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SKevo

Silverteal we are aware of that and there's not much that we can do about it right now. We thought of proxying all forums through Cloudflare, but that required a paid plan, and another server IP would cost money too. I'll discuss this with the rest of the team to see other options around this

aaronlbpeterman

Does we have any system of notifications available on freeflarum at the moment? (somethig like closable window pop up when the user log in for the initial time after applying notification.) I used to use Terms extension, but is there actually better way to do this?

I know that some ppl are busy on rebasing, but just asking ;xx

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman if you want to receive notifications when an user creates an account on your forum, then that's not possible at the moment. These kind of notifications are handled by Flarum and its extensions, and FreeFlarum has no sort of notifications system & we don't plan on implementing any

aaronlbpeterman

SKevo
I rather meant kinda something like this:

In case of some events are going on site for example.

SKevo

aaronlbpeterman do you want that in Flarum or at FreeFlarum's website? If you want this in Flarum, you should make an extension/feature request to have that added - it's definitely possible to fire notifications with extensions, and it should also be possible to make custom alerts (at least by modifying the current Flarum error box's CSS)

As for FreeFlarum website alerts, I have already made a small bottom popup for messages (in rebase, so not live yet), but that's just for errors that happened at the moment/in real time (e. g.: invalid value was entered in a form).

We don't plan to make an user notification system like Flarum's (for https://freeflarum.com/settings for example) because FreeFlarum is built with Python, and making it communicate with Flarum's PHP listeners to fire notifications is impossible. We could make it connect to the database to fetch data, but that's another tedious thing to do (we'd have to make FF check for new notifications every so often, check if there are new posts since x date, etc...). It's unnecessary for FreeFlarum to have this, as Flarum already can handle this

Dotrar

Hey, thanks for the service! It's really amazing that it's presented for free, and Flarum seems to be such a good system that it works great.

I'm trying to build a bit of a site for our community organisation, and setting up some monthly / yearly donations soon from the community executives..

There's still some bugs and weird issues with our site , but I've realised that we're on 0.1.0-beta.16 and Flarum has come out of beta. Is there a way to update the site to the newest release or do we just wait until your end updates?

(If anyone has any ideas, there's a specific bug on our end that if you click on a category from the category view, it just views "all discussions" and you must then again click on the category from the sidebar - hoping this sort of bug is resolved with the latest version)

SKevo

Dotrar I'm trying to build a bit of a site for our community organisation, and setting up some monthly / yearly donations soon from the community executives..

Remember that we do not allow free forums to monetize their communities, according to our ToS. It is not really fair when you get hosting for free. If you are monetizing outside of FreeFlarum (not directly at forum, e. g.: pay to see discussions, etc...), then that's fine.

Dotrar Is there a way to update the site to the newest release or do we just wait until your end updates?

We will update all forums when most of the extensions become compatible with the new release, so you can't update by yourself. I expect for us to update sometime around the first week of July

About the bug, I'm not sure whether or not it was fixed in 1.0.0 - 1.0.2, maybe someone else knows

rg90

EDIT Administration CSS via inside administration css box - How to in FreeFlarum ? 🙂

Hi i want to ask, is possible somehow edit administration in flarum using CSS (but inside administration in CSS).
I know it doesn't work ... if it 's styles that modify administration, it' s necessary to add it to the file

In the classic Flarum, this is solved as follows:
Add this line in extend.php
(new Extend\Frontend('admin')) ->css(__DIR__ . '/admin.less'),

And next create file admin.less and here add custom admin css styles.
But of course this is not possible in FreeFlarum, because the user does not have access to the files.
I ask, is it possible to work around it somehow and edit it using a css box inside the administration?
I ask .. how to achieve this and why a css box inside administration does not load css modifications for administration.

Thanks

SKevo

rg90 is it possible to work around it somehow and edit it using a css box inside the administration?

I am pretty sure that Flarum has no way around this without using an extension that adds the CSS to the admin area. May I ask what are you trying to achieve? Maybe there is another way to get the result you expect.

It is possible for us to implement a CSS file editor that automatically applies the CSS for admin from the FreeFlarum settings, and I might as well do that for the rebase

rg90

Hi Kewo, to your question, what am I trying to achieve.
I use a fairly light color combination on my forum, in short, my forum is quite recolored using internal CSS.

However, this caused a combination of light yellow and white in the administration and some texts could not be read.
This means that I had to recolor the administration in this way using CSS so that my moderator and I could orient myself there.

Yes you are right about the extension i was considering. I can't write it myself, but a completely simple extension would suffice, where the user would insert his own CSS and repaint the administration as he pleased.

I will try to add a request for this extension to modify the administration using CSS.
Extension for editing administration using CSS

idemk

Hello, I'm testing redirection using CNAME already on the second hosting but without result. From FreeFlarum to my domain (root).
I tried to delete also the A record to be 100% sure that the CNAME will redirect to the FreeFlarum domain but also not.

Every time I load my site there is a problem with the certificate.
Of course, I enter my domain name in FreeFlarum administration.
And every time an error message Oops! mywebsitename.com does not CNAME to mywebsite.com.freeflarum.com

Apparently there is a problem somewhere on the side where FreeFlarum is hosted - Hetzner hosting (but I'm not sure).

I'm afraid there is only a very small percentage of hosting where the transfer succeeds. Therefore I want to ask, can you please check the settings, or are you planning some other way to redirect to your own domain (root).
The best option would be to give users another option to redirect if possible.

I found an identical problem here.
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/13880-cname-record-doesn-t-redirect-to-my-forum-on-freeflarum

Thank you for a great thing like FreeFlarum but it would be great if this redirect worked somehow differently.

SKevo

idemk we have received a similar E-mail a while ago, where a root domain was not CNAMED properly.

It is because CNAMING root domains is limited by DNS (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-cant-a-domain-s-root-be-a-cname-8cbab38e5f5c). I am not an expert about the CNAME record myself, but from several cases that happened at FreeFlarum, CNAM-ing root domains is impossible. You must use a subdomain, such as forum.mydomain.com. In cases like this, I usually recommend people to setup a redirect from root domain to the subdomain, so you'd make mydomain.com redirect users to forum.mydomain.com.

We can take a look at some other options to make sure root domains can be connected with FreeFlarum, but AFAIK this is not possible right now because of the way FreeFlarum handles the domains. Sorry

idemk

Hello, today i tested it again.
If i put this, website work - but www must be entered.

If i put this, cannot be saved and an error will appear stating that CNAME is not set.

My CNAME record looks like this.

SKevo

idemk that means that FreeFlarum is not compatible with root domains, somehow.

I admit that I haven't gotten into details with how FreeFlarum handles linking domains, but CNAME has some limitations for root domains, so that might be it

idemk

Yes as you write. Anyway, I synced the domain via Cloudflare and added a CNAME to point to root. With Cloudflare, it probably won't work out, will it? I'm talking about pointing to the root domain.

SKevo

idemk I'm not sure, the best would be to try it and see. Not an expert about DNS & Cloudflare

luceos

www is another record on the domain, it stands separate from the full domain. Understand that com in essence is also a domain (hence Top Level Domain) and domain.com (called root or naked domain) therefor is a sub domain of com. www.domain.com is a third level or sub- domain. So, assigning a CNAME to www.domain.com does not cascade that record information to its parent domain.com.

Sadly you cannot assign a CNAME to a root domain, this has to be an A or AAAA record. The reason for this is that CNAME record cannot be combined with (most) other records including the NS record which is required to explain to the internet what DNS records are connected to your root domain.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-cant-a-domain-s-root-be-a-cname-8cbab38e5f5c/

I can't remember precisely why but using an IP on the root domain doesn't work with FreeFlarum, see:

Sanguine You have to use a CNAME, otherwise it won't work. Note: if you use a CNAME on your top-level domain (eg xyz.com), you won't be able to use other DNS features for that top level (such as email or other subdomains). So it is recommended to use a subdomain.

Understand that officially a CNAME on a root domain does not work, see my explanation above. So the best solution is to either find a way to redirect your traffic from the root domain to www or use a different sub domain completely.

SKevo

luceos idemk thanks for the info, I'll update our documentation about domain linking accordingly later

idemk

I test today another hosting provider (for the third time)

Message from support:
According to RFC 2181, it is not permissible for a CNAME record to exist for a second-order domain. A CNAME record can only be set for a domain of order 3 or higher.

Therefore, this setting (entry below) cannot be applied in this way. From a technical point of view, it will not be possible to set this CNAME record. It is only possible to set the redirection of the domain to URLs of other domains.
Or redirect the main domain mydomain.com using the A record to the IP address of the server of the given provider.

The result is this: There are only a very small number of hosting provider (really minimal) that are able to perform CNAME redirection to the root domain. I found only 1 of the 4 hosting providers that did it.
I tried both domestic in our state where I live and foreign providers. The most suitable solution is for subdomains.
YES THIS WAY IS POSSIBLE (CNAME redirection to root) BUT AS I WRITE ONLY ON LITTLE HOSTING PROVIDERS.

gaines

My Free Flarum forum seems to have been deleted.
I created a forum several months ago. I worked on it for some time, but then life got busy, and I wasn’t able to log in for a few months. This morning I tried to look at it ( https://gpost.flarum.cloud/ ) and it just gives a 404 / not found error.

I am assuming it was deactivated due to inactivity. Is there at way to re-activate / retrieve it? Where do I log in, if so? Thank you in advance.

meetdilip

gaines

There was some cleaning a couple of months back. I guess that is where your forum got lost. I do not see anything from your end that can fix the issue. If +CWkevo can bring back the old files, that would the best possible solution.

SKevo

gaines reactivated

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