Is Flarum a Good Choice for My Upcoming Community Forum?

Spez

huseyinfiliz Note: When I tested it, it seemed like I could update Flarum through the Extension Manager, just as if I were installing an extension.

I typed "flarum/core:v2.0.0-beta.2," and it updated automatically. For you, this might appear as something like "flarum/core:v1.8.9."

New knowledge. Thank you.

Spez

Kabir As far as I know, Flarum only has 2 versions: normal version and no-public-dir version. It's just different in Flarum's path. Flarum installs and updates using Composer, that's the basics. However, as I said, you can install and update Extensions (Plugins) using the Extensions Manager tool available on Flarum. And as @huseyinfiliz said, you can also update the Flarum version using ExtensionsManager. The version I use is the no-public-dir version, I see a lot of people using this version.

abc123

It is very suitable to use Laravel to develop forums and social chat systems. Laravel is built for the mobile era.

Kabir

abc123 But I am not a developer and I don't have interest in laravel.

abc123

It is highly recommended to abandon mybb, mybb is not suitable for this era, you can use Laravel development, or use flarum development. It's the mobile era.

GreXXL

Kabir Flarum can be updated via the extension manger. You should still have as admin with SSH access as in some cases this can be necessary. The most recent production ready version is 1.8.9.

I also want to make everyone aware that you can edit posts and it is not necessary or allowed to post multiple times in succession.

Kabir

Thank you all for providing detailed information!

I’ve installed version 1.8.9, and so far, it’s great. However, I couldn’t find solutions to the following requirements, which are very important for me:

User Groups: I want to grant specific access to certain user groups but not all permissions. For example, I’d like to give moderators access to "Invite" and "Tag" settings but restrict them from accessing other areas like Dashboard, Basics, Emails, Appearance, or extensions. Is there a way to achieve this? If there’s an extension available for this, it would be perfect and fulfill my requirements.
Renaming the "Member": I’m unable to rename the default user group "Member." It doesn’t appear in the permissions section where other user groups are listed. I wish there was a way to rename it to something more aligned with my needs.

If anyone has solutions or suggestions for these issues, I’d greatly appreciate your help!

SkakashiS

Kabir I’d like to give moderators access to "Invite" and "Tag" settings

I think that this is not possible, only admins can do that and the only group for that is the "admin" group. I think that there is no extension for this.

Kabir I wish there was a way to rename it to something more aligned with my needs.

This is only an internal name, where do you want to rename it? If it is somewhere in public, you can install this extension: https://flarum.org/extension/fof/linguist and change for your community every "member" where you find to the word that better fits for you.

abc123

Hopefully there will be a stable version of flarum, more extensions. Something for everyone

ernestdefoe

abc123 There is a stable version of Flarum. It’s what’s being used here. Been stable for quite some time now. The only thing that’s not stable is Flarum 2.x

luceos

abc123 Flarum 1.8.9 is the latest stable version with a massive amount of extensions. It seems you're basing your opinions on the beta of 2.0 which hasn't even been released yet, the only reason these beta's exist is so that developers can make their extensions compatible, so yeah that version is still unstable and doesn't have many extensions yet.

ernestdefoe

luceos yeah I’ve already explained that to them.

14569

Yes, I have used many forum softwares, such as XenForo and Discourse, but I think Flarum is the best.

abc123

Let's work together to make Flarum 2.0 better, bigger and stronger.

ernestdefoe

abc123 honestly there’s nothing wrong with Flarum 1. It works perfectly and tons of extensions. Lets not rush the developers to get the new version out so that way when it’s released it’s as bug free is possible.

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