hf06
Really not trying to start anything here, but I thought your post would be very helpful to innumerable people evaluating Flarum for the first time and I wished that it existed back when I was evaluating it against other choices.
The truth is Flarum is like a box of Legos, where most other forum software is more like a pre-fabricated toy. You dump out all the pieces when you get home from the toy store and say "I wish I had something to play with right now" but you have to build something first. Then you eventually realize the building is the fun part.
It takes a real investment of time and research to get it working the way you want it to, but then you have the experience, like I did last night, of entering one short command into the terminal (of your VPS) and adding Direct Messaging capabilities (the extension neoncube/flarum-private-messages) in about 5 seconds, and it just works!
And then you immediately realize to make it even cooler you need to add WebSockets functionality and the research begins anew . . . .
Maybe a support forum for non-developer-level Flarum users would be appropriate? Flarum for Dummies. We could all share quick and dirty shortcuts and solutions to make it just work the way we want it to and leave the genius-level stuff for the big kids.
If only there was a way to quickly and easily deploy forum software. <smiley -- my emojis aren't working>
And this is no way intended to be critical of @luceos -- without his generous support responses to me (and to others) I would have needed to bail-out a long time ago.
At this point, I am beyond thrilled with my Flarum implementation and it's become a dangerously seductive distraction.
