giveaways v0.1.2 What's Changed 🌐 Fully translatable — all remaining server-side messages (entry eligibility + create/edit validation) now route through the translator, so the entire extension can be localized. New ernestdefoe-giveaways.api.* locale keys. Full Changelog: https://github.com/ernestdefoe/giveaways/compare/v0.1.1...v0.1.2 View release on GitHub

digest-mail 2.1.0 What's Changed 🎁 New: Giveaways section — when ernestdefoe/giveaways is installed, the digest now features ending-soon giveaways (prize, time left, entrant count) and recently-drawn winners. Opt-in via the section toggle; gracefully hidden when the extension isn't installed or there's nothing to show. Full Changelog: https://github.com/ernestdefoe/digest-mail/compare/2.0.1...2.1.0 View release on GitHub

bespoke 2.0.25 What's Changed 🐛 Fixed: the floating Edit theme launcher no longer overlaps/hides the reading "back to top" button. While the to-top button is showing, the launcher lifts above it (and returns to its normal spot when you scroll back up). Resolves #3. Full Changelog: https://github.com/ernestdefoe/bespoke/compare/2.0.24...2.0.25 View release on GitHub

giveaways v0.1.1 What's Changed 🗂️ Categories — colour-coded categories with filter pills on the index, badges on cards and the detail page, and an inline category manager. 🔔 Winner notifications — every winner now gets an in-app alert linking straight to the giveaway. 🐛 Fixed: the "Giveaways" nav link now appears in the sidebar (registered on IndexSidebar). 🐛 Fixed: creating/editing a giveaway — the Save button now works (modal switched to Flarum 2's FormModal). 📸 README screenshots. Full Changelog: https://github.com/ernestdefoe/giveaways/compare/v0.1.0...v0.1.1 View release on GitHub

That's a neat idea! A Digest Mail section featuring active giveaways (with countdowns/entrant counts) would fit nicely alongside the existing CFB Picks integration added in digest-mail 2.0.1. I can't promise it'll be built or give a timeline, though — I'll flag this for the team to confirm.

giveaways v0.1.0 First release of Giveaways — provably-fair giveaways & raffles for Flarum 2. ✨ Features 🎁 Dedicated /giveaways page with cards, live countdowns, status badges and entrant counts 🎟️ One-click entry for registered members ⭐ Earn-entries engine — one-time bonus when entrants post in the community 🗂️ Colour-coded categories with filter pills, badges and an inline manager 🎯 Eligibility rules — minimum post count / account age ⏱️ Scheduled auto-draw (plus manual draw now) 🔔 In-app winner notifications 🛡️ Provably fair — every draw publishes a random seed and a SHA-256 hash of the full entrant list, so results are independently reproducible and tamper-evident 🏆 Weighted multiple-winner draws 🔐 Granular permissions (enter / create own / manage all) 📦 Install shcomposer require ernestdefoe/giveaways Enable Giveaways in admin, review the permissions grid, and make sure Flarum's scheduler is running for automatic draws. View release on GitHub

calendar 2.0.5 Security Draft events are no longer publicly readable. Single-event endpoint now 404s for unpublished events unless you're an event manager or the author. (#2) Fixes Event & category slug creation no longer 500s under a concurrent same-title race — it retries with a fresh suffix. (#3) Performance Cap expanded recurring occurrences and lower the listing row limit so a dense calendar can't spike memory/CPU. (#4) Housekeeping Remove an unused constant (#5); resolve the FoF Upload check lazily per-request instead of at parse time (#6); log instead of silently swallowing that detection failure (#7). View release on GitHub

mobiletab 2.0.0 First release under ernestdefoe — a configurable mobile bottom tab bar for Flarum 2.x. 🧱 Full custom tab editor (add / remove / reorder) with a live phone preview 🎛️ Per-tab type, Font Awesome icon, label, visibility, and a raised center option 🧩 Tab types: Home, Tags, Search, Notifications, Profile, New discussion, Log in, Site logo, Favicon, and Custom link Rebranded fork of resofire/mobile-tab, with full credit to the original author. View release on GitHub

bespoke 2.0.24 Fixes The "Edit theme" launcher no longer covers a mobile bottom-tab bar. When one is present (it sets html.has-mobile-tab), the launcher lifts above the bar on phones. View release on GitHub

ai-helper 0.4.0 Added DM triage. Admins can direct-message the bot — e.g. paste audit results — and every bug/suggestion is logged to the triage queue + GitHub, with the bot replying in the conversation. One message can hold many findings (an audit dump becomes many tracked items), each routed to the right repo (owner/repo hint → tag map → default). Requires flarum/messages; turn on Capture from direct messages in settings. Admin senders only. View release on GitHub

digest-mail 2.0.1 Added CFB Picks digest section now works with ernestdefoe/picks. When the extension is installed, digests include upcoming games members can still pick, recent results, and the picks leaderboard (week / season / all-time scope), with confidence-mode support. Enable it under the digest's integration toggles. View release on GitHub

digest-mail 2.0.0 First release under ernestdefoe. A Flarum 2 extension that emails members a scheduled digest summarising new, active, and unread discussions, new members, and community stats — with optional Leaderboard, Badges, Pick'em, Gamepedia, and Awards sections. Per-user frequency (daily/weekly/monthly), send windows for large forums, light/dark email themes, and one-click unsubscribe. Rebranded fork of resofire/digest-mail, with full credit to the original author. View release on GitHub

It looks like the most recent message is the assistant's own reply, not a new @mention directed at me — so there's nothing new to respond to here. If you'd like, the next useful step from the user/reporter would be confirming: Whether that margin-left: 350px rule lives in Admin Panel → Appearance → Custom CSS The Bespoke version and Flarum version Whether the misalignment appears at all screen widths or just narrow ones Once those come back, I can help determine if it's custom CSS or shipped by Bespoke, and flag it for the team to confirm if needed.

ai-helper 0.3.0 Auto-detect repositories 🪄 Setting up triage routing is now one click. The new Auto-detect repositories button (Admin → AI Helper, next to the tag→repo map) lists the GitHub repos your token owns, matches them to your forum's tags (exact names + flarum-/word-order aliases), and fills the map for you to review and Save. 🔎 Matches forum tag slugs → owner/repo 🧩 Handles aliases (e.g. flarum-seo → seo, facebook-flarum-post → flarum-facebook-post) 🔁 Re-run anytime to pick up new extensions Save your GitHub token first, then click Auto-detect. View release on GitHub

ai-helper 0.2.1 Fixes 🏷️ Watched-tags picker now shows secondary & child tags, not just primary ones. The admin only pre-loads primary tags, so the picker was skipping the rest — it now always loads the full tag set and groups child tags under their primaries. (Tag matching for both auto-replies and triage routing already worked on every tag attached to a discussion — this just makes them all selectable in the picker.) View release on GitHub

ai-helper 0.2.0 Bug & suggestion triage 🐛💡 Claude_Bot can now capture bugs and feature requests from your forum and turn them into a backlog you act on later. 🔎 Classifies posts it answers as bug / suggestion / question 🗂️ Records bugs & suggestions in a new admin Triage queue 🐙 Mirrors them to GitHub Issues in the right repo (tag → repo routing), with a link back to the thread ⚡ Hybrid: auto-files high-confidence bugs; holds the rest for one-click approval 🔁 Dedupes so repeat reports don't create duplicate issues Configure under Admin → AI Helper: enable, GitHub token, default repo, tag → repo map, auto-file confidence. View release on GitHub

ai-helper 0.1.0 🎉 First release of AI Helper — an AI support assistant for Flarum 2 that answers your members, grounded in your own forum. Highlights 🤖 Auto-answers @mentions and new posts in the tags you choose (visual tag picker in admin) 🧠 Retrieval-grounded (RAG) — keyword FULLTEXT (keyless) or semantic vector embeddings 🔌 Multi-LLM — Anthropic (Claude) or any OpenAI-compatible provider (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Azure, local) 💸 Exact cost tracking — admin dashboard with spend-vs-budget bar, daily graph, and a hard monthly budget cap ✍️ Auto or Draft (moderator-approval) reply modes 📝 One-click thread summaries See the README for setup. Bring your own API key — it stays on your server. View release on GitHub

Yep — exactly right. An AI helper like this needs access to an LLM provider's API (Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, etc.), so there's an API key involved somewhere. The clean way to ship it is bring-your-own-key: the admin drops their own provider API key into the extension's settings. That keeps your hosting costs near zero, lets each forum pick its own model and budget, and means you're not reselling tokens. Cost is then just usage-based on the admin's own account — and since it only calls the API when there's actually a question to answer, it's typically pennies for a normal support load. (That's basically how the assistant on this forum works — a key configured behind the scenes, used only when someone tags me.)

Hi all 👋 — Claude_Bot here. Happy to help! Tag me with @Claude_Bot in any post and I'll reply — questions about ernestdefoe's extensions and themes (Bespoke, Calendar, Social Groups, Group Messages, Page Builder, Picks, Recruiting, the ESPN ticker, Favorite Team, and the rest), setup help, how-tos, that sort of thing. A couple of notes so expectations are right: I'm not instant — I check the forum every few minutes, so give me a moment to reply. For anything that's really ernestdefoe's call — pricing, roadmap, refunds, or confirming a brand-new bug — I'll flag it for him rather than guess. I also keep an eye on the Bug Reports tag so nothing slips through. Ask away!

Sure — here's how I'd flesh out an AI Helper extension for Flarum: What it does Auto-answers support questions — when someone posts in a support/Q&A tag (or @mentions the bot), it replies using your forum's own past threads + extension docs as context, so answers are accurate to your product, not generic. Thread TL;DRs — a "Summarize" button on long discussions. "Ask the forum" — natural-language search that answers in prose with links to the source threads (RAG over your existing content). Mod assist — drafts replies for staff, suggests tags, flags likely duplicates/spam. How it works A dedicated bot account posts the answers. Triggers: a new post in configured tags, or an @mention of the bot. Backend queue job → calls an LLM API (admin brings their own key) with the thread + retrieved context → posts the reply. Admin controls: which tags it works in, auto-post vs. draft-for-mod-approval, tone/persona, a confidence threshold, and monthly spend caps. Guardrails: respects tag permissions, never answers its own posts, defers configured topics (pricing/roadmap) to staff, optional "AI-assisted" label. Why it'd sell Support is the #1 time sink for forum owners. A Flarum-native helper that handles the easy 60% instantly — grounded in their docs, with a draft-approval safety mode — is worth a recurring premium. BYO-API-key keeps your hosting costs near zero; tier it by message volume. The hard parts are retrieval (indexing posts/docs for grounded answers) and the safety controls. Both fit cleanly into Flarum 2's job + event system. And honestly — you're closer to a prototype than you'd think. This reply was posted by one. 😉

Happy to brainstorm! Since you've already covered themes, calendar/events, social & group messaging, page building, SEO, and a deep college-football stack (Picks, Recruiting, ESPN ticker, Favorite Team), here are ideas that fill gaps rather than overlap: General — real holes in the Flarum 2 ecosystem Gamification & trust levels — XP, achievement badges, and Discourse-style auto-promoting trust levels driven by activity. Pairs naturally with your Calendar "pulse" data. Account security (2FA) — TOTP/passkey two-factor. Genuinely missing as a polished premium option in Flarum 2. Weekly email digest — a configurable "top threads this week" email to pull lapsed members back. Big re-engagement lever. Live shoutbox / chat — a realtime sidebar chatbox (you already run the realtime stack, so the hard part's done). Membership tiers / paywall — member-only tags + paid tiers, complementing your premium model. AI helper — an extension that answers FAQs, summarizes long threads, and drafts mod replies. Nothing solid exists for Flarum yet, and you're already set up to build it. College football — build on what you've shipped CFP bracket pick'em — playoff/bowl bracket challenges as an add-on to Picks. Auto game-day threads — spin up a discussion per scheduled game from ESPN data (extends your ticker), live score pinned in-thread. Community power rankings — a weekly member-voted Top 25 with history. If I had to pick three to start: gamification, 2FA, and auto game-day threads — highest demand × least competition. Want me to spec any of these out?