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Ezabelle

Hi, I’m sorry to disturb on a Sunday morning. I cannot open my forum recently, it’s showing 404 not found. Is this an issue due to the update?
My forum address: xinbang.flarum.cloud

SKevo

Ezabelle your forum was archived due to inactivity. I've reactivated it for you, it should now be online again

Ezabelle

SKevo Thank you! I can access now! 🙂 have a great day!

orschiro

Hi all,

Let's say I am posting now immediately followed by another reply. By default those appear as two separate replies.

Is there a way to merge those two automatically into one?

Thanks!

SKevo

orschiro I vaguely remember that there might've been an extension that did this, but I can't find it now. If it didn't exist, it's definitely possible for someone to create it, and add it to FreeFlarum afterwards

orschiro

SKevo thanks! Let me know in case you are able to remember.

From what I'm reading here, it definitely hasn't made its way into core.

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/414-automatic-double-post-merging/29

lichengkun135

Hi, is there a way to move the database from freeflarum to docker hosted flarum like mondediefr/docker-flarum? Thanks!

SKevo

lichengkun135 I don't use Docker, but if it supports importing a database dump, it shouldn't be a problem.

First, download your FreeFlarum database dump from https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings, then import it (this might help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43887127)

lichengkun135

SKevo Hi thanks for the information! I tried but it didn't really work as expected... I check the mariadb in the docker flarum was the same as the dumb from freeflarum but the docker flarum has no post at all? Do you know what should I do after loading the dump back? thx!

SKevo

lichengkun135 clearing your cache and migrating your database should be enough after importing a Flarum dump, otherwise I don't know what might be wrong, sorry

lichengkun135

SKevo Hi, I think I found out the reason, turns out the headers of docker flarum is different from the flarum table headers. I'm wondering if there's a way to change all the headers in the .sql dump (as well as the place in the query that uses the header, if that's the case)

SKevo

lichengkun135 if by "headers" you mean table names, then have you set table prefix? If yes, set it to null, FreeFlarum uses no prefix. Also make sure that your MariaDB version matches FreeFlarum's (10.8.3). Otherwise I don't know how to help, sorry. You should probably ask in discussion for the docker container, if it has any

Equinemarkt it looks like it was for a while, now it's back up. FreeFlarum automatically restarted all services because PHP-FPM stopped responding. I will have a look at the logs to see what caused this now

Equinemarkt

Is the server down?

Equinemarkt

Thanks! It's working again 😁

SKevo

Quite some time had passed since there was an update about the FreeFlarum upgrade. Since then, the development server has improved a lot (https://freeflarum.dev), and I am happy to announce that an official release is just around the corner! You can read my last announcement about the dev server here, if you haven't seen it.

I have fixed lots of bugs that were present since my last post & introduced some exciting new features! First thing that you'll notice is that the main website now has a gallery of some featured and popular FreeFlarum forums. I got in touch with the owners of these forums, for permission to show an image of their forum on the main site. I believe that showcasing the great extensibility and modern & clean architecture of successful Flarum forums to people that might be new to it will encourage them to explore Flarum more and give FreeFlarum a chance to be the host that startups their communities.

Also, to prepare you for the update, I will leave a small changelog except here about all the swag that is "Coming Soon™":

The FreeFlarum documentation will be completely revamped with latest information;
Forum and extension updates will propagate faster over forums;
Fixed lots of bugs (you can now re-register a destroyed forum) and improved HTTP security a lot (SSL, headers, etc...);
You can export certain tables of your forum to CSV, for analysis (suggested by @orschiro);
Exporting your data now includes the full data of your forum. Before, only avatars and database dump was included, but as more extensions started to use more assets, the export became incomplete. Now, the export will be a single .tar.gz file which contains all extension assets (avatars, covers, FoF Uploads, etc...), your forum logo, favicon and full database dump. This makes sure that when you migrate out of FreeFlarum, your new forum will be identical to the old FreeFlarum counterpart;
FreeFlarum will have 2 components - web and API, with Swagger UI. In a very short nutshell: you can authenticate to receive an access token that you can use to perform login-only requests remotely. All access tokens will be listed in your FreeFlarum settings and they can be revoked by a token with "elevated permissions", which is a token that is created when you login to FreeFlarum via its website (so remote logins won't be able to list access tokens, delete your account or revoke access tokens). You can choose to share a certain access token with a third-party hosting service, so that they can fetch your forum data and perform a seamless migration for you, which can possibly be done in a matter of minutes;
Revamped donor perks and put some limits in place;
FreeFlarum will be using unit tests internally during development (both for backend and frontend, from forum creation to custom domains and forum removal - so, at least 90 % coverage);

There's much, much more and this is maybe only like 25 % of it, but I will announce every change in a later post, after the update comes out. Now, I still have to fix some issues that prevent me from releasing the update at the moment (I don't want to release something that's incomplete or buggy, although I assume that I will still overlook something). You can click around at https://freeflarum.dev and give me some feedback, if you have the time to do so. And don't worry about breaking something, it's hosted on a separate sandbox server (note that this also means that forums that you create at the dev server won't be carried over to production, obviously - so please, use it just to test out the new features and for bug reports, not for serious forums!)

There is no ETA for the update yet, but I expect to migrate all forums somewhere in the middle of next week (so, expect a larger downtime then).

GreXXL

SKevo interesting update. Just zinket you know the limit link points to a discord - I think that is not intentional?

jaypatelani

SKevo Amazing job done well. Congratulations 🎉

SKevo

GreXXL that was intentional. It's the only place where I really spoke about the new limits (other than that, they're also mentioned in the welcome post of forums, but not elsewhere). I will leave the link as is until I create a proper documentation entry for it. Then, I'll update my post

As you can see, it still needs work. But I am getting there 🙂

Edit: updated

SKevo

Expect a downtime this Thursday (1st September) at around 7:00 UTC. FreeFlarum will be upgraded to the new codebase, and all forums will need to be migrated to a new server.

I expect that this downtime could last at around 4 hours. As always, I'll keep you posted here on Discuss.

SKevo

Update: the migration took longer than I expected, but most forums should be back online now, with their database and forum assets migrated.

The reason why it took so long is because a lot had changed. Different server setup required me to bash some scripts along the way to quickly convert existing configurations to the new format. And after maybe 4 attempts, it seems to have finally succeeded...

Known issues, for now:

Redirection from xxx.flarum.cloud to xxx.freeflarum.com and vice-versa doesn't work. Forums are accessible only via their literal domains. I have tested custom domains, and they should be working, but if it doesn't for you, please let me know.

...but other than that, everything seems to work so far? I've tried to create a new test forum, and it worked. I even received a fancy welcome E-mail from FreeFlarum, which confirmed that mail sending works ~~and saved my sanity~~. How nice!

Anyways, pardon my reliefs. It was quite a ride. And as always, if you see anything weird, please let me know ASAP. I have visited a couple of forums, and they seem to be working fine.

FYI initial page loads will take some time. That's because Caddy is obtaining the SSL certificate for your forum (on-demand TLS). But after first visit, your forum should be back to the Traditional Blazing Flarum Speed™!

Full changelog will be posted here shortly after I figure out the redirection problem (so, ideally tomorrow). For now, test out some things and let me know how it works for you, I'd appreciate your input. Thank you everyone for being patient and sorry for the long downtime!

Edit: occasional 500 errors are expected, because the server is still doing some background jobs to complete the migration process. It should resolve itself when most of that stuff is done

Edit 2: I have to re-import a couple of databases
Edit 3: Now that's done too

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