Flarum Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

  From a user perspective I really like Flarum https://flarum.org/ Some example forums that use flarum: Flarum itself: https://discuss.flarum.org/ GrapheneOS: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/ Kagi and Orion: https://kagifeedback.org/ https://orionfeedback.org/ Mailcow: https://community.mailcow.email/ Many more can be found here: https://builtwithflarum.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Introducing the new Godot Forum

  Nice! I kinda wish they went with https://flarum.org/ instead of discourse, though. I think Flarum is the better forum software and it is also open source. Source: 5 months ago

• Show HN: Booklet – modern discussion forum for professional groups

  Not sure yet how this compares to Flarum - https://freeflarum.com/ you can self-host too https://flarum.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Don't Use Discord as a Forum

  Https://flarum.org/ is a nice modern alternative, also free. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?

  Https://flarum.org/ is really nice and modern. I donated to https://freeflarum.com/ and used my custom domain for their hosted free offering. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Simple WYSIWYG html editor? Open source or cheap.

  I've been playing around with a new open source forum called Flarum for my blog. It's a forum by nature but it has a blog extension and with some work you can get it to be just a blog that looks pretty nice. I just recently finished getting mine moved over (I rarely blog but here it is) - I'm not too sold on it yet either though so there's that. Source: 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Is the internet as we knew it, dead?

  I'm currently investigating Flarum for my forum. Have you seen it? https://flarum.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• After the Dark - Beyond the Blackout and Next Steps

  Forum such as Flarum. Flarum has a bit the look and feel as Reddit... Source: 10 months ago

• PhpBB

  The old PhpBB/VBulletin format has a certain familiar charm to it, but I find it hard to go back after using modern forum systems like Discourse that fix a lot of the old system's UX shortcomings. Anyone have experience with Flarum (https://flarum.org)? I've been peripherally aware of it for years (it it looks like it's still quite active on GitHub) and it looks like a nice lighter-weight alternative to Discourse... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Just remember forums exist

  Flarum (full disclosure, I have previously done some development on this one). Source: 11 months ago

• Waterhole – modern Laravel-powered community forum software

  I'm the original developer of Flarum - open-source forum software. In 2019 I left Flarum because of burnout. Source: 11 months ago

• Show HN: Waterhole – modern community forum software

  Hey HN! I'm the original developer of Flarum[1] - open-source forum software. In 2019 I left Flarum because of burnout[2]. Generally speaking, I think open-source is a great fit for libraries[3], but less so for products. I wanted to be able to simplify the exchange: build a great product and sell it. It's been a few years but I'm excited to have just launched my follow-up project: Waterhole. https://waterhole.dev... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• PhpBB 3.3.10

  I would name PunBB[0], which can be run on a potato computer. It was often configured to use SQLite database, so it really seems lightweight for CPU, disk and memory usage. In terms of source code - it was also very thin. Also Flarum [1] looks good in terms of being lightweight. It is based on Laravel Framework, so it has own pros and cons, but thanks to wise implementation of mithril.js it felt very fast from a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• PhpBB 3.3.10

  This has been mentioned before here, but I would like to high https://flarum.org/ as a more modern (looking) alternative, minus the nostalgia of course. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Flarum for Community Forum? (PHP/Java)

  But I just discovered Flarum. It's an interesting value proposition. Similar to Discourse but coded in PHP/Java instead of Ruby On Rails. Lots of extensions. Everything open source. Has anyone had experience using Flarum as the home for their community? If so could you please share the good / bad? Any words of warning? Source: over 1 year ago

• Any Rust based forum software?

  I remember seeing an announcement of something a week or two ago which looked like a Discourse/Flarum clone to me (Flarum is the PHP analogue to Discourse) but I think it was being announced as sort of a way to self-host a subreddit, so I'm having trouble searching my bookmarks for it because of all the actual reddit URLs. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

  Flarum (https://flarum.org/) is an interesting option. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• 30 knowledge base tools for developers in 2022

  Flarum (Open Source) - Forums made simple. Modern, fast, and free! - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Best forum software for SEO?

  I haven't used it personally, but if I did need to set up a forum my choice would probably be Flarum https://flarum.org/. Good modern design, free and open source! Source: over 1 year ago

• Best Forum Software to work with Drupal?

  I find it easier to have a dedicated subdomain to your forum, say forum.example.com , with a design/logo that matches the main website. From Drupal, you can create blocks with data from the forum (latest posts...) via the API or RSS. See https://flarum.org. Source: almost 2 years ago

• GrapheneOS has moved away from Reddit to the combination of our new self-hosted discussion forum and our federated Matrix chat rooms controlled from our self-hosted official server. Both of these provide a much nicer user experience with a very knowledgeable community providing great answers/advice.

  Our forum is based on Flarum. Flarum is very lightweight and quick. It's entirely self-hosted and doesn't depend on external services. It's heavily based around extension support so the baseline is very minimal and we'll be able to extend it with the features we want to provide. We'll be configuring and extending it with a focus on privacy and security. For example, we've prevented external image links from... Source: almost 2 years ago