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Adding a dns relay service would be the bomb. Allow users easily link a custom domain probably by adding a CNAME record pointing to their FlarumHosting sub-domain.

Kudos!

Would also like to know what the team behind FreeFlarum is, and whether you're looking for extra hands (I can definitely contribute at leisure time).

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    DanielTheGeek Allow users easily link a custom domain probably by adding a CNAME record pointing to their FlarumHosting sub-domain.

    That is already possible ? What do you mean with "dns relay service" ?

    DanielTheGeek Would also like to know what the team behind FreeFlarum is, and whether you're looking for extra hands (I can definitely contribute at leisure time).

    Hey, that's a great offer! Team is just me at the moment. What would you like to do / what are you good at?

            Ralkage Sorry, I still don't understand ? If you have a custom domain, it's up to you to pick a TTL? Please elaborate..

            Perhaps he meant: allow users to utilize the Flarum DNS servers? I'm not sure what the advantage would be above using a CNAME?

              Sanguine Hey, sorry for not being clear enough.
              By DNS relay service, I meant having a way of programmatically manipulating the DNS table, pointing the internal subdomain to the custom one. I'm curious about how you implemented this because the TTL is practically instant.

              About joining ya,
              I see the big picture, there's a future for this project, besides I'm a fan of services that promote startups and small businesses. There are many ways I can help, as I'm a full stack dev...
              I'm willing to help out on the website, it should look more like a SaaS platform and needs a better and more secure onboarding and in the nearest feature maybe work on the ease of accessibility for non-tech savvy users by building a multi-platform bot for managing accounts and instances from third-party apps like Slack, Telegram, Messenger and even for developers by building a CLI tool similar to Heroku CLI so they can do things like:

              // Create an app
$ freeflarum create example-app

// Attach a domain to the app
$ freeflarum domains:add example-app.com

// Take the app down for maintenance
$ freeflarum pause example-app

              I can also take a look at the feature request page if you'd prefer to start from rolling out features from there.

                  I am unable to add my custom domain.

                  It keeps saying "Oops! twistforums.cf does not CNAME to forums.freeflarum.com" while it does.

                    User34 It keeps saying "Oops! twistforums.cf does not CNAME to forums.freeflarum.com" while it does.

                    How sure are you that the DNS CNAME record was properly mapped? why not perform a DNS lookup?

                    If you've verified that the records are set up properly, then the issue is probably from your DNS host. I'd advice you to use CloudFlare as it also comes with a lot of security options, including free SSL.

                        User34 you've mapped flarum.twistforums.cf to forums.freeflarum.com. This means your custom hostname at FreeFlarum should be flarum.twistforums.cf. twistforums.cf is not resolving to anything right now.

                        If you wanted to use twistforums.cf as the FreeFlarum hostname you'd need to map that name. However you can't CNAME an apex domain because of DNS limitation. You should either use an A record with some fixed IP (but you should only do that if FreeFlarum allows it) or use a service that offers "ANAME" records (Namecheap) or "CNAME flattening" (Cloudflare) so you can use a pseudo-CNAME at the apex domain anyway.

                          DanielTheGeek By DNS relay service, I meant having a way of programmatically manipulating the DNS table, pointing the internal subdomain to the custom one. I'm curious about how you implemented this because the TTL is practically instant.

                          Errr.. why would you want to point the subdomain to the custom domain? Currently, users can CNAME an external domain to the FreeFlarum subdomain, which seems to work fine? The only caveat are apex domains, as explained by @clarkwinkelmann. However, this case is very rare and even then, can be resolved by using specific DNS providers such as Cloudflare.

                          DanielTheGeek There are many ways I can help, as I'm a full stack dev...

                          That's an awesome offer! FYI, I want to open source large parts of FF.com so that many people can collaborate. However, I need to rewrite a bit of the core (Python) first and I am awaiting the release of beta8 first.

                          User34 I think it is good as that, amiright?

                          DNS was (eventually) good, but you had to connect your domain through https://www.freeflarum.com/settings. I did that for you, it is working now! https://flarum.twistforums.cf/

                                Felli But, I see that users not in any group can't post. It says something went wrong. But when I add that user to a group like admin, mod or whatever created, they can post.

                                    thedude users that sign up are in a hidden (not editable) group called Members; you can give that group permission to post.

                                        I tried creating a new forum with FF for a community I'm building, but apparently I've reached my forum creation limit. ? There are at least two FreeFlarum forums that I've created which I know I won't ever use again, and would delete to be able to create this new one (https://lazarus.freeflarum.com and https://foresttest.freeflarum.com) but I can't find a way to do this. Is there such a way to do so?