Flarum
Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes
Overview
Simple forum software for building great communities. Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes. The project has 16K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.
Key Features
Source: GitHub README
- 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.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
Read the Installation guide to get started. For support, refer to the documentation, and ask questions on the community forum or Discord chat.
Normalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
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Features
Integrations & APIs
- Plugin / Extension System
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