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[Cedric]

ForumSpark changelog​

Update 19/01/2025​

🚀 Features​

• Do not include original post in replies count
• (marketing) Update homepage links
• (domains) Add custom domains
• (domains) Add ability to manage primary domain
• Add news to admin panel
• Add convenience upload to theme images
• Add dark toggle for theme images
• Reinstate group format with inline bb code
• Add API token generation
• Add webhook events
• Add API v1 endpoints
• Add API documentation
• Add initial JS APIs
• Add default checkbox disabled state
• New Default Theme
• Add global dark mode setting

🐛 Bug Fixes​

• Send owner email verification when new board is created
• Theme image url on upload
• Theme image width
• Resolve inline formatter from cache
• Redirect on group create form previously took the user to the ranks listing
• Update signature caused birthday toggles to change
• Prevent deletion of default theme
• Issue where board was not set for queued tasks

 

[Bryn]

I must say... the new theme looks lovely 🙂

Keep up the good work! 👍

 

[Cedric]

The latest changes, updates and bug fixes on ForumSpark​

[1.2.2] - 2025-02-05​

🚀 Features

• Theme stylesheet editor no refresh on save and autosaving
• Add save keyboard shortcut to theme css editor

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Guest layout for error pages causes exception
• Better error handling on board registration
• Active topics no longer include first post in count

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

- Update marketing cta wording

[1.2.1] - 2025-01-30​

🚀 Features

• Add guest layout to themes
• Web component modal response to dark mode setting

[1.2.0] - 2025-01-30​

🚀 Features

• Show notification count in favicon
• Additional theme tokens for panels
• Apply board theme to auth screens

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Js error on guest layout initialising user
• Shoutbox multiple livewire roots
• Spelling error moderator panel
• ToDataURL on favicon counter
• Do not show reactions div if no reactions related to post

[1.1.6] - 2025-01-28​

🚀 Features

- Increase template and layout sizes to 10k and 50k respectively

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Webhook topics should allow more than one subscription
• Users endpoint not returning user
• Board time layout when viewing as guest in mobile

[1.1.5] - 2025-01-23​

🚀 Features

- Latest user is now determined by creation time and not id

🐛 Bug Fixes

- More strict with worker jobs and multi-tenancy

Create your free forum​

 

[Nebulous]

Nice, kind of reminds me of zetaboards (but in the very early stages). Looking forward to seeing how it grows.

 

[Flow-er]

The forum looks so nice. But I'm curious, can a forum hosted here be monetised with AdSense?

 

[Cedric]

The latest improvements:

Release 1.2.6​

Features​

• Ability to select a best answer in forums with the feature enabled
• Ability to view poll results before voting
• BREAKING replace frontend_secret with short lived JWTs for frontend extensions (documentation to follow)
• Admin can remove 2FA for user via admin panel
• Admin can remove avatar for user via admin panel
• BREAKING Drop name entirely in favour of usernamme
• Ability to promote users to new user group based on post count
• Replace Livewire session expired alert with a user friendly modal
• Allow admin to remove board favicon if one was previously set.

Bug Fixes​

• Add noreferrer to external links
• Mark new topics as read for the author
• Maintain (new) mentions if a user changes their name
• Favicon alert counter now sets immediately on page load
• Remove whitespace gap for newest member in board stats

Miscellaneous Tasks​

• Minor cleanups with internal documentation

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June 6th - Release 1.2.4​

Features​

• Admins now have the ability to remove avatars from a user via the admin area
• New Merge Topic moderation action
• Groups can now be allocated as moderators to forums

Bug Fixes​

• Timezones are now generated based on environment rather than a hard-coded list
• Admin user form did not previously select current user group for user

Other​

• Query optimisation in topic watchers
• Minor optimisation in how the next member number is allocated

 

[Bryn]

Good to see that this hasn't been forgotten about 🙂 👍

Hopefully we can see a feature where people would be able to move their forum over to it (or better, have it converted to it from Jcink/Forumotion/etc) 🙂

 

[HoleInTheGround.forum]

You should add a top list of active forums hosted by you

Like in different category and a way to upvote it.

 

[Cedric]

Cedric posted a new item update Board registrations reopened on the Item ForumSpark - Host your forum for free.

 

[fords8]

Congrats on taking this over @Cedric . I am sure you will do great things with it.

EDIT: I wanted to let everyone know that creating a forum is fast and easy. Move forward with your idea and launch it at Forum Spark.

 

[Katrina]

I'm going to give this a shot as a sort of test. It will be from a non-techie perspective and I'll take screenshots and document my progress at times for those who are curious.

 

[Cedric]

I'm going to give this a shot as a sort of test. It will be from a non-techie perspective and I'll take screenshots and document my progress at times for those who are curious.

Looking forward to read all about it!

 

[Page]

I'm going to give this a shot as a sort of test. It will be from a non-techie perspective and I'll take screenshots and document my progress at times for those who are curious.

Good luck, I think it be epic

 

[Gizmo]

One thing I noticed not sure if it's a bug but it doesn't look like people can have spaces in their username. I tried on one forum and it wouldn't let me.

 

[Page]

One thing I noticed not sure if it's a bug but it doesn't look like people can have spaces in their username. I tried on one forum and it wouldn't let me.

Same - just says this "The username field must only contain letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores."

Space is NOPE

 

[Cedric]

It's not a bug, it's an intentional design when FS was launched. It's on my list to change at some point because I find it annoying as well.

 

[Gizmo]

It's not a bug, it's an intentional design when FS was launched. It's on my list to change at some point because I find it annoying as well.

Maybe you could do a quick change and just state that spaces aren't allowed or something for now?

 

[John]

Out of morbid curiosity - how many people use Forum Spark on current forums?

I legit love the idea, Cedric! PB and ZB died a sad death. People should have a platform to make a forum without tons of hoops to jump through.

 

[Cedric]

Out of morbid curiosity - how many people use Forum Spark on current forums?

I legit love the idea, Cedric! PB and ZB died a sad death. People should have a platform to make a forum without tons of hoops to jump through.

Thank you John. We’re hosting around 50 active forums at the moment.

 

[Page]

Thank you John. We’re hosting around 50 active forums at the moment.

50 - that's allot, even though only 10% are shown on the dictionary