Flarum
Simple forum software for building great communities. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 32
- age_days: 4274
- days_rel: 20
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 14
Adoption not part of the score
6748 stars · 881 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Flarum is open-source forum software for building online discussion communities, built in PHP on Laravel with a Mithril-powered frontend. It is fast, responsive, and highly extensible through a rich extension API with hundreds of community-built extensions.
Use cases
- start a community forum for my website
- self-hosted discussion board software
- replace my old phpBB or FluxBB forum
- build a support community with groups and permissions
- run a lightweight forum on PHP and MySQL
- create an extensible community platform with themes and extensions
When to choose
- you want a modern, fast, self-hosted forum in PHP
- you need fine-grained permissions, moderation, and theming out of the box
- you want to extend forum functionality via a plugin/extension API
- you prefer MIT-licensed software governed by a non-profit foundation
When to avoid
- you need a full CMS or blog rather than a discussion forum
- your stack is not PHP or you cannot run MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite
- you require only a stable release and cannot accept release-candidate versions of 2.0
Facets
application · maturity stable
web-framework ui-components plugin-system auth search-engine templating web-development self-hosted cms php self-hosted cross-platform forum-software discussion-platform community extensible laravel mithril mit-license forums web-server linux
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/flarum/framework · fetched 2026-08-28 · 697795f912c9
- homepage: http://flarum.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 29ab90adf660
- site_page: https://docs.flarum.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1097a6790310
- site_page: https://docs.flarum.org/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6cd929eb3623
- site_page: https://flarum.org/foundation/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7cdf31e74d0e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| flarum/framework | main | 94 |
| flarum/flarum | infra | 88 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="flarum/framework")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem