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jpaterson

Seems like my forum is down as of recently. Maybe related to the upgrade? Can't seem to log into any freeflarum tools with the site down.

atxdao.freeflarum.com

SKevo

jpaterson should be okay now

Up2Vex

SKevo Up2Vex your forum has a lot of posts. Please, share a link to a specific discussion which has the notifications that you want to hide

I was talking more about how the language selector is not aligned
https://prnt.sc/VNtFTF8El9vi

SKevo

Up2Vex ah I'm sorry, I thought that was a different question

I created a test account at your forum, and unfortunately, I am not able to reproduce the issue (the menu appears normally to me). Maybe try in incognito mode, to see if browser extensions or cache has something to do with it?

Up2Vex

SKevo

I noticed the issue with misalignment is being caused by the "Flags" mod

You couldnt see it on a new account as only mods/admins can see flags that users have reported

SKevo

Up2Vex can I create a temporary admin account and check it then?

Up2Vex

SKevo sure (i disabled flags now but you can reenable)

orschiro

SKevo same problem happened again. https://www.philundrob.de/ ist not reachable.

Can you please check again?

Thank you!

SKevo

orschiro your forum was archived for inactivity, sorry. I've reactivated it for you and protected it from further removals

orschiro

SKevo appreciated, thanks!

elcubroproxd

Hello freeflarum staff, my forum (https://goldenvitality.flarum.cloud) is deactivated, can you help me to activate it again? Thank you.

SKevo

elcubroproxd your forum was archived for inactivity, I've reactivated it and protected it from further removals

tom23 I understand & apologize. I have indeed noticed that there is a degraded performance across FreeFlarum recently.

It seems that as FreeFlarum gained popularity, the current server and hardware setup is not enough to keep up with all the forums. I have attempted to fix this issue by reducing the amount of online forums by clearing some inactive ones. However, many people have requested their forum to be reactivated, which rendered this step technically useless. As more and more forums appear, the activity is higher and higher, and there are less inactive forums to be removed.

Unfortunately, I did not have the time to look into this in more detail to find the exact cause because of my exams. But I should have some time next weekend. I will do some research in order to optimize it better. Expect a downtime next Saturday morning while I tweak some server configurations in order to counter this

tom23

of course this is a free platform and sure there are peak times. But not at all accessible is not good either. Where is it hosted? Donate regularly and I would be happy if it runs smoothly. Thanks @SKevo and the rest for the work of course! Don't mean to badmouth that.

elcubroproxd

SKevo I thank you very much!

Trc4

SKevo It seems that as FreeFlarum gained popularity, the current server and hardware setup is not enough to keep up with all the forums.

Our community would donate for better hardware if needed.

_S_1_M_0_N_

I there.

I created a forum on FreeFlarum. But I got some troubles already on it.
After activating the forum through my email. I got a notification saying I was inactive for too long (even when I imedially open the url and setup my password.). Afterwards my forum keeps showing the "An error occurred while trying to load this page." notification screen.

My forum url is: https://teamplagiaat.flarum.cloud/

SKevo

_S_1_M_0_N_ hey, the issue was related to the one I had encountered earlier. Specifically, it seems that the "Third Party Login Only" removes the login route, which then other extensions attempt to access (as seen in the error message I linked). Disabling that extension fixed the issue. It seems that you will have to leave standard Flarum signup enabled, at least for now (however, you can still allow users to signup via OAuth by setting up the routes).

Trc4 that's very kind and thoughtful of you, thank you very much! I would like to look into it in more detail before I proceed to upgrade the hardware and introduce additional expenses (maybe the fix is something rather simple that wouldn't require more processing power?). If that won't work, I will keep your offer in mind and reach to you privately, if that's okay with you?

SKevo

DavecUK I am amazed by your generosity, thank you very much! Just remember that this is not necessary right now, as I have nothing as significant to give in return. Still, if you want to donate a larger sum of money, please email me (info@freeflarum.com)? I'll send you my IBAN, so that PayPal & Stripe don't charge fees. CC Trc4

_S_1_M_0_N_

Hi @SKevo Thanks for you reply! I think its indeed caused by that. I only have no idea how to access my website to disable it since even the admin-panel is unavaible rn.

SKevo

_S_1_M_0_N_ your forum seems accessible to me, including the admin panel (I created a test account). Is it still down for you?

DavecUK It might be useful if there were hints and tips on how to keep a forums footprint and use of resources disk and processing as lean as possible. I often feel there are some extensions which are quite heavy on resources and other options which look resource hungry if misconfigured in the admin panel. Those tend to be ones I stopped using.

I assume it may be correct that some extensions lack optimizations, yes... FreeFlarum unfortunately currently does not have a setup that would allow to limit extensions' resource usage. As for tips, there are none yet either (just warnings that FreeFlarum is a community provided service with no warranty and affiliation with Flarum, etc...). As you mentioned, it is quite difficult to produce any useful guides (although the idea with sitemap might have a point, I noted that), because no concrete tricks on how to save resources at FreeFlarum are known at this moment. However, I admire your continuous leniency towards FreeFlarum's resources. It is people like you that make a difference - albeit small, but helpful nonetheless - thank you!

DavecUK

It might be useful if there were hints and tips on how to keep a forums footprint and use of resources disk and processing as lean as possible. I often feel there are some extensions which are quite heavy on resources and other options which look resource hungry if misconfigured in the admin panel. Those tend to be ones I stopped using.

Unfortunately I don't really know enough to make any recommendations. Apart from being careful about how often the site map is rebuilt.

DavecUK

SKevo I do think you do a great job and the forums are very reliable IMO. Upgrades are always going to have the potential for issues, because of the community written nature of extensions to the core software. The work you do is very much appreciated.

_S_1_M_0_N_

SKevo Hi! For some kind of reason my updated post didn't got posted here. Luckilly its back online again for me. I re-used my password reset mail and it got online again after that error.

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