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Official ForumSpark updates, service announcements, and previews of upcoming changes.
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ForumSpark on Discord
Started by Cedric ·
ForumSpark on Discord
Hi everyone,
We’ve set up a Discord server for ForumSpark. It’s a great place to hang out, chat with others, and share ideas about building and managing your communities. We'll develop the server further as we see fit.
Here’s what you can do on our Discord:
Connect with...
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Grid and Feed: two new looks for your forum home
Started by Cedric ·
Grid and Feed: two new looks for your forum home
Not every board wants to have a classic list of categories and forums. While it is dense and familiar, some communities have the desire to customize beyond traditional listings.What changedThe forum home now has four layouts: the classic List, the denser Compact, a new Grid of li...
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Dock, Paper and links that play
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Dock, Paper and links that play
The editor is one of the most used parts of any community, so a good part of this release is focused there. You can now choose between three different editor layouts, pasted video and audio links can automatically turn into players, checklists can be shared with everyone in a top...
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We are giving three communities a home for life
Started by Cedric ·
We are giving three communities a home for life
Two weeks ago 2.0 went out the door, and the response has honestly been the best part of building this thing. People upgraded, people started new boards, and people sent bug reports at two in the morning. I want to say thank you in a way that actually means something.So here it i...
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Expected downtime August 26th
Started by Cedric ·
Expected downtime August 26th
A brief downtime is to be expected tomorrow due to server maintenance and upgrading hardware. Total downtime shouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes.CEST: 10:00 AMBST: 9:00 AMEDT: 4:00 AMCDT: 3:00 AM
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The new Live chat and rebuilt polls
Started by Cedric ·
The new Live chat and rebuilt polls
Some parts of ForumSpark get rebuilt every few months. Others quietly do their job for years without anyone touching them. The shoutbox and polls belong firmly to the second group. Neither has seen a decent improvement since ForumSpark was originally built, and to be honest, we k...
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Meet Aegis: spam defense across every board
Started by Cedric ·
Meet Aegis: spam defense across every board
If you run a board on ForumSpark, spam has probably never been high on your list of worries. That is by design. Every board sits behind Cloudflare, the platform is built to keep bad traffic out, and between our signup checks and a few quiet defenses working in the background, it...
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Translate your community
Started by Cedric ·
Translate your community
One thing ForumSpark was still missing was the ability to translate your community or simply change certain wording to suit your needs. Until now, changing interface text usually meant working around it with CSS. That is no longer necessary.This update brings full language manage...
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Events is live
Started by Cedric ·
Events is live
A few board owners asked us for events. They were running meetups out of pinned topics, keeping the guest list in the first post and bumping it by hand. That deserved better, so we built it properly. Events is the headline, but this release also brings email for private messages,...
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Custom domain issue resolved
Started by Cedric ·
Custom domain issue resolved
Hi everyone,Over the past days, some boards using a custom domain were temporarily unreachable. Visitors saw a browser security warning or an offline page instead of the forum.The cause was an internal check on our proxy that silently blocked SSL certificate renewals for custom d...
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Add-ons, automation and our Marketplace
Started by Cedric ·
Add-ons, automation and our Marketplace
Thanks to some great feedback, ForumSpark is in a much better shape than ever. But we're not slowing down. On the contrary...The Marketplace is now the official place for releasesFrom today we will start using our official Marketplace on the support board. I will be converting al...
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ForumSpark 2.0.1 BETA Release
Started by Cedric ·
ForumSpark 2.0.1 BETA Release
Greetings all,Since the release yesterday I have continued to do some fine tuning and minor fixes to ForumSpark 2. Here's a few fixes in 2.0.1:Section description blank on saveDeleting default sections gave a server errorPost rail customization ignored in the topic viewReaction,...
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ForumSpark 2.0 is here
Started by Cedric ·
ForumSpark 2.0 is here
I want to do this properly. Not a wall of bullet points, not a "we're thrilled to announce." Just me telling you what changed, the way I'd tell a friend over coffee or a beer.ForumSpark 2.0 has been the better part of almost a year of work, and it is easily the biggest thing I ha...
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A glimpse on ForumSpark 2.0
Started by Cedric ·
A glimpse on ForumSpark 2.0
A glimpse on ForumSpark 2.0I'll keep this one relatively short, because I don't want to give too much away just yet - but there's enough to talk about that it felt wrong to stay quiet any longer. And I can't contain my excitement personally.ForumSpark 2.0 is in active development...
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Meet the new Theme Studio
Started by Cedric ·
Meet the new Theme Studio
I have something exciting to share.As you know, a great deal of our time goes into building features that make it easy to customize your ForumSpark community. Now, creating themes just got a whole lot easier.It has always been possible to build stunning themes on ForumSpark, prov...
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Release 1.7.1
Started by Cedric ·
Release 1.7.1
This is a small yet with great impact release. Something that needed to be done before resuming work on 2.0.Performance Significantly faster page loads across the site which most noticeable on mobile and for logged-in members. Achieved by edge-caching the theme stylesheet, minify...
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