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I don't think they've even made it to 7.4 yet.

While it's long tempted me to continue Vanilla, there's a difficult challenge. If you do a "community edition", you have no input on the roadmap. You're just a silent steward tied to whatever the company decides. I agree there's no reasonable hope for collaboration with them at this point. If you do a fork, now you're signing up for a world of maintenance, and you'd have to rebuild the open source developer community to about 2x its highest point to make that sustainable. Having a bespoke framework underpinning the whole thing is a very large maintenance liability and it hasn't kept pace with development trends.

Flarum has a strong development community and has more than adequate feature parity, imo. It's more challenging to install & update for non-developers, but they're working on that with reasonable priority. My biggest quibble with it is the Javascript-heavy UI, but I have plans to address that and most other folks don't share my concern. My preferred path forward for building community software is do it downstream from Flarum, using it as a dependency to make my own system, rather than building something from scratch again.

I just spent a year of my free time building a migration tool from Vanilla to Flarum, so I feel pretty strongly about it. For more info on moving to Flarum if that's your choice, see here: https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39195/ready-to-move-to-flarum-i-might-be-able-to-help#latest

I built that tool with the ability to do different output/target plugins for other platforms, so it's fully extensible. That said, making target plugins is more challenging than source plugins because of the peculiarities of each new platform.

I just hit the 13th anniversary of my first code contribution to Vanilla this month. A bittersweet reminder these days, indeed. I really thought it could become the ubiquitous community software of the web, but the writing's been on the wall a long, long time now.

I'm using this newest version, trying to embed into my website

I do not see the embed them in my themes area

I do see it in my filemanager themes folder as Embedfriendly

Is there somthing else I need to set in order to see this?

BTW, this was installed via softaculous

Thanks

About 1 year ago, the dashboard showed that the 2011.011 rel was ready for install and I did because of some security issue affecting the old rel. running the forum, but then, still having some new important errors that were never fixed.

I ask why to suggest for a untested release as official announce in the dashborad?

Having this bad experience, to downgrade to the 2011.09 scare me at the point to don't want to do that! Why they don't have a quality's check and test staff, causing to have forums so badly builted around?

I tried 2021.025 on my forum in production (i'm silly).

I updated my 2021.012 version and i had only a php warning.

version.json file is missing in root directory, so the assets in source code of each page look like

<script src="/discussions/js/library/jquery.js?v=unknown" static="1" defer="defer"></script>

and in the dashboard bottom right, i had version: unknown

Forum works fine but i want to correct this, so, I upload on my website a version.json file with this (found in the vanilla github repo, i changed only 2022.006 to 2021.025)

{
    "x-version-scheme": "{Release version}-{? SNAPSHOT if it's a dev build}",
    "version": "2021.025"
}

now everythings seems ok. I will check my logs to see if i have others errors.

I tried to pass to PHP8 but had a 500 error. I have to check what is failing.

Thank you @R_J and others for your work for this community

Please ignore all the buggy releases after Vanilla 2021.009.

It's important to note the difference between "release" and "version" here: while you might be able to build a completely fine running forum from the sources on GitHub if you are a developer, there hasn't been any release which wasn't usable out of the box since release 2021.009.

I've compiled a 2021.025 version and if you like to give that a try and report your experiences back, we might recommend that until a new release will be published officially.