The NAFPS forum was recently offline for several weeks. When it came back online the SMF version was changed.
Earlier: 'SMF 2.0.15 | SMF © 2017, Simple Machines'. Now: 'SMF 2.1.4 © 2023, Simple Machines'.
Newest version, however (as of March, 2026): https://www.simplemachines.org
QuoteSMF 2.1.7 Released
Simple Machines is pleased to announce a new patch for the 2.1.x line of SMF, which pushes the version number to 2.1.7.
A few things don't work anymore. Before you could ask to be 'notified' about new posts in topics where you had not commented anything. Now that has changed to 'Receive Email and Alerts".
However, this doesn't work. — I'll report other anomalies later.
Sorry to hear this.. please collect, i will try to fix what i can
The mail system is still broken, which is why notifications dont work. EMail the most difficult part to set up and will get us quickly blacklisted if something goes wrong. This is why we would prefer email as a service, I am doing research on that.
Even more important is the topic of backups which also will require some research to find a good&modern solution.
From my perspective, the version of SMF is of little importance- this one works for now. It was chosen because my attempts to update to the most current one pathetically failed, so after some wasted tiem I gave up and tried the one in use now, which worked just fine.
KrazyKraut thanks for all your ongoing work, much appreciated.