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
I downloaded it but didn't realise it was going to download and wipe my whole forum! 
Lodgee it is impossible and dumping your forum data will never ever erase your forum.
I saw what the problem is and first thought that it might be related to some extension. But then I created a test account and logged in. Everything was visible after that. Do you hide your forum's contents from non-registered users (and are you logged in)?
Oh yes so sorry!! Someone had requested to change the privacy and hidden the forums contents when not logged in, I didn't realise and after downloading I assumed I had wiped the forum.
SKevo
I'm worried my forum has been deleted in this cleanup, when i go to the address 'https://cape.flarum.cloud/' i get a 404. The forum is used, so hoping it is not gone for good or that it's an unrelated problem. Would someone be able to investigate this please, would appreciate it greatly?
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fran_w reactivated it for you earlier, couldn't reply because your post didn't show up there (but I got E-mail notification - might be a Flarum bug that unapproved posts still trigger notifications?)
Neuron please, try to explain what exactly are you having problems with, what errors do you see, what is your forum name, what are you DNS settings and the domain that you are trying to link. Remember - you can't link a root domain and only CNAME records are supported.
When I want to reactivate my forum "sprachcafe" I get the message:
"Something went wrong during the reactivation. "
Can you help me here, please?
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HDValentin it happens because there is no longer a backup of your forum at our system, at least not in the common location - therefore, there is still an unlikely chance that it exists elsewhere (for example, in temporary directory, if you downloaded your database or avatars). If you have a database dump of your forum, I'm willing to re-import it. Otherwise, I can't help you much in this regard, sorry
Edit: found something in backups after all, will reactivate it for you shortly
SKevo I don't have a Backup. :-(
How could I prevent a deletion of a forum?
I think I was logged in as Admin about a month ago.
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HDValentin I have reactivated it for you from our server-side backups. Does it work for you now?