Flarum Is a Next Generation Forums Software

Flarum is a free open-source discussion board and forums solution for building better engagement platforms for communities.

Flarum highlights

• Fast and simple. No clutter, no bloat, no complex dependencies. Flarum is built with PHP so it’s quick and easy to deploy. The interface is powered by Mithril, a performant JavaScript framework with a tiny footprint.
• Beautiful and responsive. This is forum software for humans. Flarum is carefully designed to be consistent and intuitive across platforms, out-of-the-box.
• Powerful and extensible. Customize, extend, and integrate Flarum to suit your community. Flarum’s architecture is amazingly flexible, with a powerful Extension API.

Features

• Clean user-interface
• Organize your forums using categories or tags
• One click start discussion: you do not need to dig deep into forums and sub-forums to start your discussion.
• Discussion and post insights: how many comments, how many users
• Comes with a built-in full-text search engine
• Rich admin dashboard that offers control over the users, boards, permissions, the interface, and the email notification and settings.
• Rich ecosystem that contains many extensions and themes
• Add many languages as extensions
• Offers a rich REST-API

Import from old forum systems

You can import your data from old forum systems as:

1. FluxBB
2. MyBB
3. phpBB
4. SMF2

Server Requirements

• Apache (with mod_rewrite enabled) or Nginx
• PHP 7.3+ with the following extensions: curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo_mysql, tokenizer, zip
• MySQL 5.6+/8.0.23+ or MariaDB 10.0.5+
• SSH (command-line) access to run Composer

License

Flarum is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.

Sources

• Source code
• Website