Forem Creators and Builders 🌱

Yet another Forem-based community successfully deployed and growing 🌱

Oli on October 08, 2021

Hi folks! I'm fairly new to the Forem.dev and want to share my sustainable living community - Forest and also express my gratitude towards the For...
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Ben Halpern

Exciting!!

I can see that it is already a little out of date. We're working on clearer versioning and admin nudges to encourage folks to update more regularly, but in the meantime I'll do it here:

If you're running a self-hosted Forem, please update regularly because we're constantly smashing bugs and improving features. Waiting too long to update could be problematic. (I believe there may actually be an onboarding bug on the version you're running).

github.com/forem/selfhost#update-f...

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Happy Foreming!

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Oli

Cheers, Ben. I did notice some some differences between my instance and forem.dev and dev.to

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Ben Halpern

Yeah. You should continue updating periodically (at least once a week)... We will soon have a banner in admin to nag you, but in the meantime make it a habit. Updating is much easier than originally getting set up, but if you don't do it regularly it could potentially create bugs.

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Rayan Nait Mazi

Hi @oli , great community !
I'm also doing self-host forem on DO and I had the same issue with the non-www. not working.
My fix was the same: set up a permanent redirect from domain.com to domain.com ;)

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Oli

Thanks Rayan! All the best with your community.

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Lee

Love it - i'll be signing up later. Great topic, just what Forem needed.

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Oli

Thank you!

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Michael Tharrington

This is a seriously great idea for a Forem. Just joined and am excited to see what I'm able to learn from this community!

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Nice one, @oli ! Congrats on getting your Forem up and running!

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Oli

Thank you, @ellativity . It's great to have you in our community.

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Akhil Naidu

That's a nice community, and I'm glad that my posts helped you.