Knoxtane I understand and apologize for the confusion. I’ll word it better in the documentation
Basically, CNAMEs at root (@) aren’t officially supported by the DNS, however some nameservers allow you to use it at root regardless (by using CNAME flattening). There are forums that use this, to have their hostname be directly like example.tld instead of something.example.tld (without any redirects).
But, not every registrar supports this, so I have intentionally left it out of the documentation to avoid more confusion. FreeFlarum does not attempt to recognize individual cases of domains that use CNAME flattening , it simply assumes the DNS standard (without any DNS “cheats”) — for some forums it works, for some it doesn’t and frankly, I don’t know why it’s like this (maybe the forum admins do some extra steps to make FreeFlarum recognize the CNAME record at root). I’d say you could try to ignore the warning in the documentation and see if the forum can be placed at root (and be properly recognized by FF) - if not, then unfortunately you’ll have to use the other 2 alternative solutions to at least make it look like it’s at root (either by using www, as some browsers hide it from the URL bar, or by redirecting example.tld to something like forum.example.tld where your actual forum will reside, or both (e. g. root to www).
