Flarum Updated

Alex

I’ve added some new extensions.

Imgur File Upload - lets you upload an image to Imgur in the editor
Users Online - shows who’s online in the bottom left
Discussion Views - shows you who has viewed a thread, how many views in total etc

You may need to hard refresh (ctrl+F5) your browser to see them.

Brave

Alex nice!

BritishBean

Test

I was negative for antibodies.

Gammerz

My Clods Online isn’t showing anyone. Is this because nobody else is online? Should it show myself?

Alex

Gammerz did you force refresh by doing ctrl+f5?

Gammerz

Alex Yes. I did. Using Chrome on Win 10 desktop PC.

BritishBean

Are we able to toggle the 2 user related extensions on/off to our preference? I’m not sure what benefit I get from knowing who’s online right now when you can’t DM..

Brave

It’s basically adding back functionality we had in the old phpbb days tbh. I don’t think we could turn it off individually then either

Alex

I’ve tried a private discussions extension but wasn’t super happy with it, so now trying another private messaging extension. You need to click the messenger icon in the top left and then enter your password to enable it. The other person needs to do this before you can message them.

Gammerz

Alex Briefly spotted you online. Can’t see a messenger icon.

Alex

I felt it looked a bit dodgy in mobile mode, so I added some CSS to hide the online list and latest viewers. You can still see them in desktop.

Alex

Messenger icon:

If you can’t see it you need to ctrl+f5.

Gammerz

Alex Thanks for reply, but all I see is Search, Bell, Avatar + username. No messenger icon and no flag. Have pressed ctrl + F5 and also exited and re-entered site.
I don’t really need to message anyone atm, I was just providing some feedback.

Brave

Flag is an admin only function

Brave

Thanks for doing all this @Alex . Really appreciate it. 👍😊

Gammerz

@Alex, I’ve now got the messenger icon. I guessed the flag was admin only, but thought maybe you’d set up the messenger for admins only, which was maybe why I wasn’t seeing it.

Alex

Updated to Flarum 0.1.0-beta.14.

📦️ When enabling and disabling extensions we will now check their dependencies on other extensions to prevent bricking your forum. For instance , since askvortsov/categories relies on flarum/tags, you can’t enable it unless flarum/tags is enabled. (flarum/core#2188)
🗨️ Fixed a bunch of bugs with the post stream
🏷️ Improved tag discussion count and last posted discussion calculations
⬅️ Added a “view post” popup when having edited a post similar to when you create a post. (flarum/core#2108)
✉️ Email configuration can now be tested from within the admin area. (flarum/core#2023)
🔍 Searching for users based on groups is now also possible using the group ID. (flarum/core#2192)
🕛️ Relative times are now updated without reloading. (flarum/core#2208)
⚠️ Improved request error handling with modals. (flarum/core#1929)
😁 Font Awesome was updated. (flarum/core#2274)
📛 User display names are now implemented as drivers, and have extenders (flarum/core#2174)
🔒️ The bundled Facebook, GitHub and Twitter authentication extensions have moved to Friends of Flarum. flarum/core#2006

Note: they changed the way extensions worked so all extensions had to be updated and some of them haven’t been yet. Therefore we have lost three extensions:

Online Users List
BB Code Spoilers
Shout Messaging

I went through and updated every place I found an old spoiler but apologies if I missed any.

Edit: for future reference this tool is useful when updating the forum software.

Brave

Thanks Alex , as always 👍

Alex

Might be worth exploring new hosting options, as our current host does seem to just shit the bed every so often, although it’s not been too bad recently.. I would prefer more of a cloud based hosting provider where we have full control over what we’re running. There are extensions and things I’d like to add that we can’t because they require dependencies that our host won’t allow. I’d prefer a provider that used containers where we can install whatever we want.

I don’t know how much @Brave is paying at the moment, but our traffic is very low and our database doesn’t take up much space, so a cloud provider won’t be too much. I don’t mind putting my hand in my pocket to pay for something a bit better that’s more reliable and where we have more control.

One option would be to go with Digital Ocean, which I’ve used before. It may be that their low $5 a month tier will suffice, but I’d need to investigate exactly what we’d need.

Brave

Alex just let me know what I need to do with tsohost and I’ll gladly give them the heaveho. Like you say, it’s been reasonable of late, but just in general they’ve been barely satisfactory since we started.