Flarum forum software
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I've tried using Flarum once, but I wasn't a fan of it. I believe @meetdilip used to have his Admin forum on Flarum but he switched to Woltlab Suite. There's a free flarum host you can check out if you want to test out the software though!
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What did you not end up liking?I've tried using Flarum once, but I wasn't a fan of it. I believe @meetdilip used to have his Admin forum on Flarum but he switched to Woltlab Suite. There's a free flarum host you can check out if you want to test out the software though!
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I’m not the biggest fan of modern forum software. I prefer the layout of threaded software like Xenforo. 🙂
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I'm using Flarum on the forum for Patriot Freelance, a freelancing website for US based freelancers that I'm trying to get started up. Back in the day I used to use MyBB a lot but Flarum is a lot more modern than MyBB.
Flarum was a little difficult to get working given that it uses Composer to install. I should clarify, I had started working with Flarum on a local dev environment to try it out, then I checked in my code to a Git repository and copied it to the server and re-ran Composer to install Flarum on the server from what I had on the local environment.
I kept getting an error when trying to log in about the CSRF token being invalid, even though my config.php had the correct new domain and I couldn't find the old domain in my database dump. I managed to get everything working properly though installing Flarum directly on the server so not sure why it wouldn't transfer from a local dev environment to live. It would have been nice to be able to test updates and new add-ons locally before pushing live, but guess I'll just test all that in live.
I'm not really a fan of how Flarum does all of the page loads via Javascript though. I wonder if that is hurting SEO at all.
It does seem like a solid forum option though, but may be harder to install for some and might not work on some shared hosting.
Flarum was a little difficult to get working given that it uses Composer to install. I should clarify, I had started working with Flarum on a local dev environment to try it out, then I checked in my code to a Git repository and copied it to the server and re-ran Composer to install Flarum on the server from what I had on the local environment.
I kept getting an error when trying to log in about the CSRF token being invalid, even though my config.php had the correct new domain and I couldn't find the old domain in my database dump. I managed to get everything working properly though installing Flarum directly on the server so not sure why it wouldn't transfer from a local dev environment to live. It would have been nice to be able to test updates and new add-ons locally before pushing live, but guess I'll just test all that in live.
I'm not really a fan of how Flarum does all of the page loads via Javascript though. I wonder if that is hurting SEO at all.
It does seem like a solid forum option though, but may be harder to install for some and might not work on some shared hosting.
My opinion on Flarum has changed. I've started using it for my Sonic the Hedgehog modding community, and it was pretty easy to install! So if you would like to try out a modern forum software but don't want to deal with installing Discourse or NodeBB on your server, Flarum is the next best thing. Since it's php based, you can easily upload the files to your shared server and install it. Or if you don't want to do that you can always try out Free Flarum which I linked in my previous post.
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