# Flarum

Simple forum software for building great communities.

Repository: https://github.com/flarum/framework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flarum
Homepage: http://flarum.org/
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: flarum, php, forum, laravel, javascript, hacktoberfest, community
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:29:34+00:00
Link (homepage): http://flarum.org/
Link (site_page): https://docs.flarum.org
Link (site_page): https://docs.flarum.org/install
Link (site_page): https://flarum.org/foundation/about

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 85, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4274, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 20, "gap_med": 32, "n_releases_24m": 14}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6748, forks 881 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:48.266515+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: web-framework, ui-components, plugin-system, auth, search-engine, templating
- domain: web-development, self-hosted, cms
- platform: php, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: forum-software, discussion-platform, community, extensible, laravel, mithril, mit-license, forums, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- flarum/framework (main) score 94
- flarum/flarum (infra) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.266515+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:05:08.068968+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/flarum/framework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.266515+00:00, sha 697795f912c9)
  - homepage: http://flarum.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:02:31.272824+00:00, sha 29ab90adf660)
  - site_page: https://docs.flarum.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:02:31.282823+00:00, sha 1097a6790310)
  - site_page: https://docs.flarum.org/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:02:31.284673+00:00, sha 6cd929eb3623)
  - site_page: https://flarum.org/foundation/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:02:31.286497+00:00, sha 7cdf31e74d0e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.