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Flarum Is a Next Generation Forums Software

Flarum is a technically excellent, open and extensible discussion platform.

Hazem Abbas

20 Dec 2022 — 1 min read

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:

FluxBB
MyBB
phpBB
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.

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