I am looking for a modern forum software and Flarum really is. I already could test out a lot of stuff with the demo forum and it covers most of my requirements, but there are some things I couldn't test and couldn't figure out, yet.
Privacy friendly captcha while registration
The demo doesn't have any mechanics on check for humans, but on a productive system, it is really needed. But for example here there is a cloudflare tool installed and I really don't want to support cloudflare, google or other huge companies, which collect and sell data as their business model.
The best thing would be a local plugin, which doesn't have any connections to third parties and just creates captchas with numbers and letters.
I would like to make the forum as privacy friendly as possible.
Does something like this exist?
Accessibility over REST
I've already found some lines in the docs about the rest api, but it looks like there is documentation missing. I could figure out how to create a post, but not how to do this in a specific category or in an existing thread.
I would like to create a bot, which is parsing a specific thread and gets the comments of all people, process the data and do another post and publish the result in a specific thread.
Is this possible with the rest api?
Side threads in threads
This one might be really specific and maybe not possible, but is there a plugin, which can handle posts like they are on Mastodon, Lemmy or Reddit?
It is often interesting if a side thread (or branch) is growing out of a discussion. I am not talking about offtopic, but really a constructive discussion, which has something to do with the first post and that many discussions grow out of one thread.
In a linear forum, it's sometimes hard to follow one discussion, if there are several ones.
