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Everything appears to be viewable again. Thanks for sorting this out in such a short time!
I've updated all forums to version v1.1.1 of Flarum, along with all extensions. It was a small patch, and it very likely won't break anything. In any case, please let us know if something goes wrong after the update.
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I've updated all extensions and included a few new ones (Custom BBCode Buttons, TwoFactor Authentication and nes theme).
Some forums might appear to be down (either a 5xx status code or message "Flarum encountered boot error [...]" will be shown). This is because all forums need to be synchronized with our main skeleton forum (as usual). This should take ~3 hours, depends on the amount of forums (but if you want your forum to work sooner, navigate to https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings and hit "Fixup your forum" button).
Speaking of amount of forums, the disk usage has reached 95 % now (4013 forums are currently being hosted + all daily backups of them). We will need to clean the inactive ones soon, and remove currently archived forums. This means that if you have a forum that was archived by us and/or you'd like to reactivate a forum, now it is the right time to do so. I plan to purge old archived forums tomorrow at around this time, then archive currently inactive ones (so these will not be removed permanently just yet).
All inactive forums have been now cleaned up and archived, which resulted in +20 % free storage space for FreeFlarum.
We will do some more cleanup to free even more space sometime later, which won't remove any online forums.
Apologies for a few small downtimes today - it was all because of the cleanup. FreeFlarum is fully operational again now. However, if you encounter any issues, please let us know.
Hi I have a problem
Not being an expert in computer science previously I created a forum with freeflarum Che E this
https://neverlandpuntoit.freeflarum.com
The Problem Is That Maybe I Have Wrong PRESS Something, I'm Having Problems With The Site That Prevents Me From Creating Dialog Pages, Like And ADD photos To Message
Can someone help me?
Is there a way to merge two Freeflarum forums ?
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Utente2021 The Problem Is That Maybe I Have Wrong PRESS Something, I'm Having Problems With The Site That Prevents Me From Creating Dialog Pages, Like And ADD photos To Message
What's the problem exactly? Does an error show up when you try to do the above-mentioned? You can check the console and https://freeflarum.com/settings/logs for errors. If you want, I can also create a test account at your forum and check it for you.
jaypatelani Is there a way to merge two Freeflarum forums ?
No, that is currently not possible and likely never will. It would have to be done manually, and if you mean it just as in "move discussions and posts from x forum to y", then I could probably do it with enough spare time and patience.
SKevo i mean moving discussions, posts and users from X to y forum. X is small so it can be deleted later if all can be transferred to y.
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jaypatelani it would have to be done manually, by dumping the DB and manually modifying it so it doesn't overwrite your current data - I think that it's possible, but there would be problem with IDs and foreign keys of already existing data.
jaypatelani SKevo foreign keys would be the issue here. If you really want to do this it would make more sense to create an extension for one community that hits the API of the other one so that it:
- first seeds users
- then seeds discussions and their posts
Yesterday I had to update the postfix configuration to forward E-mail to my new address. It turns out that I confused the postmap command with postalias when regenerating the postfix virtual database. This means that for a while, mail hasn't arrived to our inboxes. This is fixed (and tested) now. So if you sent us an E-mail, it wasn't ignored - it just didn't arrive - please, re-send it. Apologies for the confusion
I've changed my domain and need to notify all my members. Is there a way to do this via an email through the forum? Or can I download all the email addresses to add to a mailing list on another platform?
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Lodgee you can download your database from https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings and extract the addresses from the users table, then send the E-mail. If you need help with the address extraction (into a text file, for example), I could help with that too
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Lodgee the dump is meant as a way to import your forum elsewhere, e. g.: your own hosting. You need to import it into a MySQL database. Only then you can query it (or open it in something like phpMyAdmin or Adminer).
Since all data is in the raw text dump that you have downloaded, it is also possible to extract what you need from the file itself, with a bit of an effort. As far as I know, the E-mails shouldn't be scattered, and there should be a section to populate the users table somewhere in the file.
You can also send me an E-mail to me@kevo.link with your forum name/URL and I'll extract the addresses for you. That seems like the best option for you