News & Updates
News & Updates
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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ForumSpark 2.1: Club improvements
Started by Cedric ·
ForumSpark 2.1: Club improvements
Clubs are communities inside your community: groups your members start and run themselves, each with its own page, its own discussions and its own members. Think guild halls, book circles, regional chapters or a team working on one project. In 2.1 every part of Clubs was rebuilt,...
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ForumSpark 2.1: Marketplace improvements
Started by Cedric ·
ForumSpark 2.1: Marketplace improvements
The Marketplace has been part of ForumSpark for a while: a place on your board where you, and if you like your members, can share and sell products like themes, guides, services, merch or anything else downloadable. In 2.1 every page of it was rebuilt. Here’s a sneak peek of what...
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Ad Manager, a phpBB importer and a round of fixes
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Ad Manager, a phpBB importer and a round of fixes
What's new on ForumSpark Ad Manager The Ad Manager is now available on the Earn and Scale plans. You create packages for the spots on your board, like the header, the sidebar or between posts, and decide what they cost. Members order a banner from Advertise in their user menu, yo...
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PHP vulnerabilities patched
Started by Cedric ·
PHP vulnerabilities patched
On 21 October 2026, the PHP project released fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) affecting PHP installations worldwide.We acted on the advisory as soon as we could. A temporary protective measure was in place while we waited for t...
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A round of fixes
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A round of fixes
No new features this time, which is why this one is 2.0.10.1 and not 2.0.11. It is a round of fixes for things you reported in the support forum and the live chat, plus a few errors our monitoring caught before most of you ran into them.Widgets between categories, now with custom...
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Enter to win a custom theme!
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Enter to win a custom theme!
We picked the Home for Life winners and closed the contest. And I want to admit something: reading your entries was the best part of the whole contest. Not the picking. The reading. Dozens of people describing a place that matters to them, in a few honest sentences. So we are doi...
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Coming from ProBoards? Your community. Your data. Always.
Started by Cedric ·
Coming from ProBoards? Your community. Your data. Always.
You may have seen some of the discussion around ProBoards' recently updated Terms of Service.One change in particular has understandably caught the attention of community owners. Their new terms grant ProBoards a perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable license to user content, i...
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Similar topics, smarter widgets and Foroverse
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Similar topics, smarter widgets and Foroverse
Half of this release came straight from your feedback topics. Members now see similar topics while they type a new title, widgets can sit between your categories, pages decide for themselves whether they want a sidebar, and Foroverse is coming soon. Around that, conversations let...
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The Arcade is open
Started by Cedric ·
The Arcade is open
Every forum from the early 2000s worth its salt had an arcade: a page of small games, a high score table, and one member who would not let go of the top spot. ForumSpark boards can have one again, and it is the headline of this release. The Arcade is openThe Arcade is a free exte...
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Grid and Feed: two new looks for your forum home
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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
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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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