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Flarum

Delightfully simple forums. Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun again.

16,424 starsMIT
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Website
flarum.org
Source
github.com
Licence
MIT
Platforms
PHP
GitHub stars
16,424
Last update
2026-10-09

Open-source alternative to

Discord

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