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gaines it seems like you're not experienced with that, so I recommend to wait. I should be available in 2 or 3 hours

For now: https://balsamiq.com/support/faqs/browserconsole/

Edit: I've also tried to tweak the mail settings for the past hour, or at least what I could. It just seems to me that Gmail refused the message (mail from FreeFlarum is forwarded to our Gmail inboxes). We can't really modify that behavior, sorry for the inconveniences

      gaines fixed, for now. The issue was in the FoF Best Answer extension (I've reported it here, if you want to keep track of it or provide additional details that might help). I've disabled the extension for you, so the forum should be working again. Note that I've also enabled the Tags extension, since I suspected that it was because it wasn't enabled prior to that extension, and that Best Answer might depend on it.

        hey guys, is there any way to replace the main page on FreeFlarum to a customizable homepage, like an extension or something? (not just a forum list page)

        Because I wasn't even sure if this behavior or feature is even available on self-hosted flarum versions... 😅
        many thanks in advance. 👏

          AA-Admiral

          Admin > Basics > Homepage (3rd)

          Here you can select your homepage from a list of available choices. Note that forging a custom API request allows you to put any route as a homepage, but that's perhaps too advanced

          AA-Admiral Because I wasn't even sure if this behavior or feature is even available on self-hosted flarum versions... 😅

          I see no reason why it shouldn't be available - it's a core feature. Remember that FreeFlarum uses Flarum, which is the forum software that we all love and use. We made no core changes (apart from extenders to display footer, etc.), and it is identical to the version that this forum is using (except for different extensions)

              For those wondering why FreeFlarum was down for a bit, it was related to a recent incident at our hosting - this is fixed and all forums should be accessible normally now. This was just a very small outage, but if your forum is inaccessible due to an error (e. g. server died in middle of a database transaction), please contact us

              Hello guys, I got some problems with making poll with multiple choices, we are making a survey, to our client and we need him to make choice with our functional. But i can't find where i can make a poll with multiple choice, the only one stays in active state. We need checkboxes with saved results of poll.

                oontsa I don't know how to do that, sorry. I think that FoF Polls doesn't support multiple choices, but I might be wrong

                Also, I've seen your question in another discussion. Because this isn't related to FreeFlarum, I'd suggest to keep this in your other discussion instead. Don't worry, someone who knows more will eventually reply with further information

                    SKevo
                    by the way, my mail (with SMTP driver) does not work correct. I am looked at similar topics and make a setup like they did. But still no effect. I am using Yandex mail and opened up IMAP mail exchange. Do you know something about it?

                        oontsa I don't know, I'd need to see your SMTP settings in order to learn more. I don't know your forum name, but it might also be worth looking at your logs for errors

                          oontsa smtp is not related to imap at all , you can configure it like below

                          Server Address: smtp.yandex.com
                          Username: Your Yandex Mail address (e.g. whatever comes before @yandex.com)
                          Password: Your Yandex Mail password
                          Alternatice Port Number: 465 (With SSL/TLS)
                          Authentication: Required

                          Remember , sending Limits is 500 Emails a day

                          you can see full instructions to install smtp via yandex here ( scroll down to the 3rd ) : https://websitechuan.com/thu-vien/cam-nang-huong-dan/cau-hinh-may-chu-smtp.html

                            13 days later

                            We've updated all extensions across all forums. This resulted in some non-synchronized forums to respond with a 500 error. We apologize for the inconvenience. All forums are syncing now, which will resolve the issue in a few hours

                            Edit: Remember that it is also possible to synchronize your forum sooner at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings (by clicking on the Fixup the "Yourforum" forum button).

                            Hello everyone!
                            My forum address is discussion-forum.kuriousmachine.xyz
                            It currently has nothing at all but my main website kuriousmachine.xyz has many followers so I expect when I disclose my forum, many will start being an user.
                            Problem is, it's stated in your terms that a Forum here can host no more than 250 while @"SKevo" emailed me that one of them hosts 5K as well. My question is, as allowed in the terms and the pros being monetization and larger community, Can anybody please provide me a detailed step-by-step (preferably with pictures) of how to self-host a Flarum forum using any hosting provider?

                            Kind Regards,

                            [...] it's stated in your terms that a Forum here can host no more than 250 while @SKevo emailed me that one of them hosts 5K as well.

                            The 250 user limit is not enforced by us. It is the average maximum amount of users for all forums that FreeFlarum can handle. You can go above that, as there is no check to control whether or not a forum has more than 250. When it becomes a problem, we will let you know and ask you to move elsewhere, or reduce your user count.

                            The limit is probably not relevant at this point because we host a couple of larger forums that operate normally. There is just no time to update the documentation with new information in more detail, at least not for me because I am overwhelmed with my own duties at the moment.

                            Can anybody please provide me a detailed step-by-step (preferably with pictures) of how to self-host a Flarum forum using any hosting provider?

                            There is no perfect, general, illustrated, step-by-step guide for every hosting provider, because they all have different UIs, different options and settings that you need to tweak in order to get it working the way you want.
                            But here's what you should know:

                            • If you use shared hosting, you might not have access to composer or SSH, which complicates things a lot. Try to seek hosting that supports SSH access (preferably via a client like PuTTY)
                            • There are many guides on this forum and online, which I've already linked in my E-mail. In general, you will need to pick a good hosting and then do some research on how to setup Flarum on that host. Try looking through the Hosting tag

                            I'd like to point out that the link that meetdilip posted is an official documentation written by the Flarum team. If you picked a host with SSH access, then it indeed is not too difficult, because all details on how to proceed are described there - please, be sure to check it out. And if you're stuck, you can always open a new discussion on this forum with detailed description of your issue, and I am sure that someone will assist you.