Planned Forum Upgrades - Friday 29th Jan 2021

As part of the work to make sure the forums are kept up to date as Flarum release new versions, we will be updating the Flarum software which the forums run on.

This is somewhat more complex than a normal forum upgrade due to the way extensions work, so we are planning for a slightly extended window which will be from 15:00 to 22:00 GMT (UK Time).

Further updates will be posted on here - https://status.atlas-media.co.uk/maintenances/rEsqHacRDYeF

@Xen#6357 At the moment the work to move forum is a relatively low priority compared to other stuff that's going on. We've not made any further progress in actually looking at getting something stood up and how we would migrate data to it.

So Just to update, the forums have been updated to beta 15 with all the other patches required.

We've enabled the new username functionality that Flarum seems to support so you can change your nickname, but please keep in mind the forum guidelines.

We've also been able to finally get the user directory to actually enable this time which is a bonus, so that's something else that's new and working.

And we've enabled some new moderation tools to help merge / split threads, the permissions are being setup on that in the background now.

Appreciate this took a long time, but Flarum is an absolute pain to upgrade, but with some poking I think everything seems to be mostly working again.