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After seven years of development Flarum v1.0 "Kangaroo" has been released! A new team, a foundation, development processes; loads has changed to bring to you the first stable version!
So much has happened since the first announcement here (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) 6 years ago! It has been a crazy ride.
Over hundred contributors worked on Flarum, yet a small team has worked consistently for the past few years to get stable done. This dedication has caused companies like UPC Switzerland, giffgaff and Bunq to adopt Flarum as their community framework of choice.
Flarum is:
🧩 extensible first, appealing to small or enterprise communities
🆓 just open source
⚡ very fast, even with a decent amount of extensions enabled
💃 elegant, minimalist design
Flarum runs on PHP (Laravel components) and JavaScript (Mithril) and thus works on shared hosting environments (with composer enabled), your own (virtual) server or in the cloud!
With this milestone reached we are excited to have our eyes on our future milestones as well as focusing on growing our ecosystem.
Want to give Flarum a spin? Try https://demo.flarum.site (which resets daily) or https://freeflarum.com (community driven free hosted Flarum). If you have any questions, feel free to raise them here! Thanks for sharing and upvoting.
I have been running Flarum now for 5 years in production on a forum with over 5k registered users. Even before reaching 1.0 it was always fairly stable and I never had any major issues.
My favourite part is the extensibility, I don't know much PHP, but I managed to develop some more challenging plugins for my users, like Keybase identity proof.
Congratulations on the 1.0 release 🎉!
@bkolobara 5 years?! That is simply amazing!
It's also great to hear that you never really had major issues upgrading. Stable to us never related to things not working, but to extensions breaking between releases.
I'm glad that you have been able to use, extend and enjoy Flarum Bernard 🥰
This is a very fresh approach to forum software. Additionally, this is a PHP-based software making it available for a large audience. Running this is really easy and the extension ecosystem is also great.
Setting up a forum for the community with Flarum was really simple. Managing the forum is very straightforward. The extensions extend functionality that isn't out-of-the-box.
Seemed ok at first. But after a little over a month testing the waters, I am not seeing much point continuing. Infact I'm already testing alternatives, though they all generally seem similarly inadequate.
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