Flarum Pro - is your team behind it ?

cristic

I've found today on Producthunt this project : https://www.flarumpro.com/

The only problem is that I don't see any reference to Flarum. Is this your project? Is it legit? And, if not, what do you think about this... Is it ok for them to use Flarum without mentioning the original Open Source product?

As I said, I cannot see Flarum name/website mentioned anywhere on their website and, if it's not your project, I find this not cool at all.... I mean "Flarum" is actually mentioned 2 times I guess, but reading the phrase you can say they talk about them and their solution.

Or maybe I'm wrong... don't know...

luceos

cristic The only problem is that I don't see any reference to Flarum. Is this your project? Is it legit? And, if not, what do you think about this...

I can assure you this is not a project by Toby or anyone from the Flarum team. I am unsure whether they have asked or received approval from Toby. I am going to report it to him promptly. Thank you.

Ralkage

They are a service provider with regards to hosting Flarum instances for users such as services like FreeFlarum, but these services are no way affiliated with Flarum and it's development. If you make your way to their support forum, you'll see that they mentioned a few key points:

Hi everyone! I thought it'd be a good idea to make a post for any questions or suggestions people might have.

I also want to remind everyone that we don't work on core Flarum itself -- the wonderful folks over at flarum.org are working hard on that. But we do remove the hassle of hosting your own Flarum instance, scaling it, and upgrading it.

Ask away!

Though, their home page does make it a bit misleading as I see that as case in point for discussion. It's a bit of false advertisement if I do say so myself.

luceos

Ralkage after a brief discussion with Toby I have sent out an email to their team to clarify their affiliation.

cristic

@luceos - the thing that bothered me was that on their website there was no linked reference to Flarum (or something similar)

LawrenceWu

Hi guys, I'm Lawrence from Flarum Pro.

Like @Ralkage mentioned, we're a managed hosting provider for Flarum. Sorry about the mistake and thanks for the catch! I just spoke with @luceos and we've made added a disclaimer to our page that we're not affiliated with Flarum.org.

Ralkage

LawrenceWu Glad to see that was cleared up!