Flarum

Modern, fast & free community software

The community framework for small to enterprise communities that is extensible, scalable and completely free!

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Everything you need

Community platform

Regardless of the size of your community, Flarum excels on every level. Building on top of the Flarum core experience with extensions allows you to customize your community to your needs.

Groups and permissions

Permission groups allow easy configuration of permissions and members. Granting access to categories, but also defining global and category limited actions like moderation, flagging and much more..

Powerful editor

Whether you prefer a simple, bbcode/markdown editor for typing or need a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor for your users, Flarum works with either of those.

Styling and themes

Easily customize using the admin appearance settings page, install a theme or completely modify the looks using custom CSS that is automatically integrated into all pages and extensions. The skye is the limit!

Notify and engage

Increase engagement with your users using notifications in-browser, through email or various other channels. Installing a websocket extension allows snappy interactivity to your community with realtime updates.

Extend endlessly

The above is a selection of what Flarum has to offer, with hundreds of extensions you can tune Flarum just the way you need! And if you need something completely unique or unheard of, you can easily extend or commission extending Flarum.
Flarum is open source

Flarum is open source

Flarum is open source so that anyone can install it anywhere, even on a shared hosting plan. No vendor lock-in, you own your data, no hidden fees!

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