Forums made
simple.

Beautiful, fast, and free — Flarum is the open‑source forum software your community has been waiting for.

Free
Forever
MIT
Licensed
Open
Source
discuss.flarum.org
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Everything you need

Community
platform

Flarum scales from small hobby communities to large enterprise forums. Customise every aspect through a rich ecosystem of extensions.

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Groups & permissions

Assign permissions to groups, control member access across categories, and keep things tidy with built-in moderation and flagging.

Styling & themes

Customise via admin settings, install themes, or write custom CSS that propagates across your entire forum automatically.

Powerful editor

Choose from lightweight Markdown editors to full WYSIWYG — Flarum supports both, meeting users wherever they are comfortable.

Notify & engage

In-browser notifications, email digests, and real-time websocket extensions keep your community active and coming back.

Extend endlessly

Hundreds of community-built extensions are available. Build your own, or commission custom development — the API makes it possible.

Secure by default

Built on Laravel with security best practices throughout. Regular core updates keep your community protected.

Get involved

Join the community

Flarum is built by passionate developers and contributors. There’s always room for more.

Build Extensions

Learn how to harness Flarum's extensibility to create extensions and customise your community.

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Contribute

Help us make Flarum better. Every bug report, pull request, and documentation improvement counts.

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Get Support

Have a question? The Flarum community is active and welcoming — find answers on Discuss.

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Built with the best tools

We’re grateful to these companies who generously donate their products to the Flarum project.

Funded by

Flarum 2.0 was made possible with financial support from the NLnet Foundation through the NGI Zero grant programme.