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Friday, September 20, 2019

Blog / News / Project interna / Support forum: Registration bug fixed

Support forum: Registration bug fixed

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Image: “Wood shed door” by bobu - licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

After I updated phpBB in our support forum last week, the forum registration was broken. The problem persisted until I fixed it today.

Thanks to Rick who reported this! :)

If you encountered problems registering to the forum lately, please try again now.

All the best
Arvid

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Blog / News / Project interna / Current project status

Current project status

Hi everyone,

here’s a little update on the current status of the FlatPress project.

FlatPress itself

Version 1.1 “Da capo” runs stable and doesn’t seem to have major bugs. (See the open issues on GitHub.) Thus, we can concentrate on overhauling language packs and plugins.
Also, there may be some SEO improvements to the default theme Leggero soon.

Support forum

Our new support forum got populated quite nicely. I am very happy to receive your feedback and suggestions on FlatPress! Also, there a lot of experienced users out there trying to answer incoming questions. Thank you all for supporting each other in this friendly and productive manner!

In order to prevent bot registrations, I changed the behaviour of the registration page. Please let me know if you experience problems registering.

Regarding the old support forum I have good news and bad news: Although I got the forum itself running again, I am still searching for the “everything is read-only” switch. (Vanilla experience, anyone?)
I’m still working on it - it would be great to have back this huge pool of FlatPress know-how.

Public relations

The German-speaking, Twitter-using FlatPressers may have noticed: FlatPress is now listed at Heise Download, one of the biggest German software portals. You are very welcome to rate FlatPress there.
If you know more of such software sites (in any language), please let them know about FlatPress! We still need to make FlatPress more visible to the world.

In retrospect …

In my first blog posting here on flatpress.org, I described my plan to stabilize the software and to revive the community. Although not as quick as I hoped, this seems to have worked quite well.
Thank you all for supporting me in any way!
Let us keep working together to maintain and evolve a great little blogging engine - that may not fit any need, but ours perfectly :)

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Blog / Project interna / Current status

Current status

Hello everybody,

there’s a lot of change going on in the FlatPress project lately - some of it you might notice, some not. I’d like to keep you folks up to date.

In short

Before I dive into the details, here’s the tl;dr for the impatient reader:
Not much to see for now, the big things will happen in February.




Still reading? Thank you :) Well then, let’s take a look at the details.

New FlatPress release

You may have noticed (and propably updated to) FlatPress release 1.0.3.php7. It looks and feels exactly like the previous release 1.0.3, but runs under PHP7 and supports HTTPS.
Use the update package to update your FlatPress instance from 1.0.3 to 1.0.3.php7, it’s really easy! (For update instructions, see the download page.)

The upcoming release 1.1 is actually quite finished (see the changelog); I’d just like to add a few more language packs. Feel free to get the latest snapshot from GitHub to play around with!
I plan to release FlatPress 1.1 in February, when we have the new forum online (see below).

Website

I did a little polishing on flatpress.org the last weeks; a shiny new version of this website will be published later. You guess the date: February.

Forums

The old Vanilla forum is quite outdated, and moreover, registration is broken. This sucks if you need (or want to provide) support :(
I will open a completely new forum - in February :)

Wiki

The FlatPress wiki is a great place to get information about FlatPress, or to download themes and plugins. But it’s also littered by spam users and content.
There will be a complete overhaul (February?^^); but since the user accounts won’t be transferred, you will need to re-register your account.

That’s it!

Did I forget something? Just ask me!
Oh, well: When the new website goes online, there will also be an official flatpress.org mail address - finally :)

I hope you guys out there feel good about the way this nice little open source project goes. Please send me your feedback and suggestions! And, more important: Spread the word - tell everybody that FlatPress will be new and fresh and shiny. In February ;)

All the best,
Arvid

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Blog / News / Project interna / FlatPress is now on Twitter

FlatPress is now on Twitter

twitterlogo.pngAs you may have noticed, there are a lot of changes going on in the FlatPress project currently. Besides the project blog you’re reading (and its RSS feed), there is now another way to stay up-to-date: FlatPress is on Twitter!

Feel free to follow @FlatPress - and please spread the word!




(A big “Thank you” goes to Julian Rademacher for his generous support on this topic!)

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Blog / General / Project interna / Currently no registration possible on the forums

Currently no registration possible on the forums

I wondered why it is so quiet on the forums lately. Turns out, registration is broken… -.-
But fear not, I work on it!

So for now, if you have questions about FlatPress or want to contact me, please use the comments here in the blog or just mail me.