Flarum

Flarum is a discussion platform for your website, built on the idea that forum software should be quick to deploy and pleasant to read. There is no clutter, no bloat and no complex dependency chain, which suits communities that want conversation rather than a heavyweight administration surface.

The back end is PHP, so it deploys the way most shared hosting and small servers already expect. The interface is powered by Mithril, a performant JavaScript framework with a tiny footprint, which keeps the client quick across desktop and mobile without a separate app.

Three ideas shape how the project describes itself.

• Fast and simple: no clutter and no heavy dependencies, so installation and daily use stay quick.
• Beautiful and responsive: the interface is designed to be consistent and intuitive across platforms out of the box.
• Extensible: the architecture is flexible, with an extension API for customizing and integrating Flarum with the rest of a site.

Getting started means following the installation guide, and help comes from the documentation, the community forum and the Discord chat. Security issues have their own disclosure policy rather than the public issue tracker, and the software is MIT licensed.

Before cloning, note one thing about the layout. This repository holds only the Flarum skeleton application, and most development happens in the separate core repository, which is where code contributions belong.