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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:
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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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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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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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GDPR Tools
Users should have the ability to request account deletion.
Users should have the ability to download all data that relates to them, this should include:
User record (username, name, email etc)
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Shouts
Historical name change requests
Any data current session related...
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Notifications
Thanks @Hulk for mentioning this in the service discussion forum.
Right now you get notifications of tags, reactions and replies to threads you create. These are just in-app notifications though which are great for live sessions but not ideal for users who have gone offline.
W...
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APIs and Extension Development
It is intended for ForumSpark to have an accessible API so that you are able to add features to your board.
This will take place in 2 stages:
The first is an implementation of a 'simple' admin level API. This will allow owners to create scoped personal access tokens. These s...
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