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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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Terms of Service - Updated February 28th 2026
Started by Cedric ·
Terms of Service - Updated February 28th 2026
Hello everyone,
We’ve updated ForumSpark’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Legal Framework.
This update improves clarity, strengthens our content and moderation policies, and better reflects our compliance with current regulations, including GDPR and the UK Online Safety...
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Release 1.2.9
Started by Jamie ·
Release 1.2.9
This release includes several more quality-of-life improvements, such as the ability to toggle between relative and absolute timestamps and a new setting to disable auto-subscription when replying to topics. Key bug fixes include improved filtering in the weekly digest, which now...
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Release 1.2.8
Started by Jamie ·
Release 1.2.8
This release brings several quality-of-life improvements and new features aimed at boosting engagement and ease of use.
Most notably, we've introduced email notifications for watched topics and a new weekly digest to help bring users back into the conversation. You’ll also find...
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Release 1.2.7
Started by Jamie ·
Release 1.2.7
I have been queuing up a few changes and thought it would be good to push these up as the release includes a bunch of quality of life improvements. For the full list of changes please see below:
Features
Add moderation queue badge to ModCP menu
Create default forums with perm...
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Release 1.2.6
Started by Jamie ·
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 ca...
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A quick update
Started by Jamie ·
A quick update
In the interest of transparency, I wanted to share a quick update on what’s currently in development for ForumSpark. This should give you a good idea of where things are headed and what to expect over the next few versions.
Coming in Release 1.2.6
The next release includes a nu...
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June 10th - 1.2.5 (Hotfix)
Started by Jamie ·
June 10th - 1.2.5 (Hotfix)
1.2.5 is a hotfix release to patch the creation of boards.
It was reported that it was not possible to create a new board due to a 404 error appearing when typing in the board creation form. This was due to a collision in middleware preventing access from the main domain to L...
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June 6th - Release 1.2.4
Started by Jamie ·
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 fo...
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Changelog w/c 14 Apr 2025
Started by Jamie ·
Changelog w/c 14 Apr 2025
Changelog
[1.2.3] - 2025-04-20
Features
Add custom menu management
Filter banned users from board statistics
Bug Fixes
Add missing migration
Tenant default file_storage value
Fix issue where user ranks would not be recalculated during rank deletion
Fix issue where custom p...
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Planned Maintenance 18/03/2025
Started by Jamie ·
Planned Maintenance 18/03/2025
Our hosting provider will be performing scheduled network maintenance on 18/03/2025 20:00 UTC until 18/03/2025 23:00 UTC.
During this time you may experience delays, failures or short term outages. Disruption will be kept to a minimum during this period.
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Changelog Week Beginning 3rd Feb 2025
Started by Jamie ·
Changelog Week Beginning 3rd Feb 2025
Sorry I did not post an update already but here are the main things that have changed in the most recent versions.
Most notably are the changes to the theme css editor to improve theme dev experience when editing a theme through the admin, and that themes now apply to guest /...
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New Feature: Topic watchers
Started by Jamie ·
New Feature: Topic watchers
I've now implemented the ability for users to watch topics and be notified of replies.
For now, if you create a topic or reply to one, you are automatically subscribed to updates. If you wish to stop receiving updates, you can click the 'Unwatch' button next to the reply button...
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ForumSpark Update
Started by Jamie ·
ForumSpark Update
Hey all!
I have now pushed quite a substantial release for ForumSpark. I've outlined the main areas below but please take a look at the changelog to see a full list of updates :)
New Look
As you will have noticed, Forum Spark has a new look. Whilst the purple and orange was...
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In Progress
Theme Development Experience
In Progress
Theme Development Experience
We will be making improvements all round to the theme development experience.
There are still some remnants of Tailwind classes but I am making a concentrated effort to remove them in favour of more structured css. This should make overriding of things much easier.
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Released 
Released 🚀
Custom Domains
For anyone wondering, it will soon be possible to allocate custom domains to Forum Spark.
We do currently have that available as a feature but it is currently turned off as I need to perform a small amount of infrastructure work. This will be available in the coming weeks.
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