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Flarum

Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes

MIT Free flarum/flarum · 16K flarum.org PHP Plugins

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

plugins.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel
elestio

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo
pikapods

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

  • Plugin / Extension System

Category

Social & Community (119)

Replaces

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