Warble — Hosted Realtime for your Flarum

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Your forum, live. Warble is a hosted realtime service for Flarum: replies appear the moment they're posted, typing indicators, presence — no page refreshes. There's now a free tier, so you can put your forum live without a credit card.

It's built around flarum/realtime, which does all the live UI. Warble simply runs the websocket server for you: install the free flarum-warble extension, paste one key from your linkrobins.com dashboard, and the connection is configured automatically — no hosts, ports, or daemons. Realtime's own settings (typing indicators, discussion-list updates, notification toasts) stay yours to tune.

Free — your own dedicated realtime server, no card

100 concurrent connections
Unlimited messages, never metered
A dedicated endpoint of your own, not a shared pool
One free app per account

Idle free endpoints pause after 30 days with zero connections — your keys and address are kept, and one click brings them back.

Paid — flat yearly pricing, unlimited messages; the tier is just a concurrent-connection cap:

Starter: 250 concurrent connections @ $49/yr
Growth: 1,000 concurrent connections @ $99/yr
Max: 2,000 concurrent connections @ $179/yr

Paid plans start with a 14-day free trial and never pause.

For comparison: Pusher's free sandbox also stops at 100 connections, but caps you at 200,000 messages a day on shared infrastructure — Warble's free tier is a dedicated server with no message cap at all. And where Pusher's entry paid plan is $49 a month, Warble's is $49 a year.

Outgrow 2,000 connections? Then you're ready to self-host — run flarum/realtime's stock bundled daemon on your own server. No lock-in, ever.

Get started → linkrobins.com/warble

luceos

KBExit oh you beat me to it. Well done, absolutely something the ecosystem needs.

ernestdefoe

luceos that's exactly what I said when he told me. about it

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Edit, sorry I just woke up. Now I'm comprehending 😂

This is exactly how I got it working in the hosting environment the minute it became available for Flarum 2.0. I may have over engineered a lot of the hosting stack on day one. My idea was to modularize everything so I could individually scale resources as needed in a docker swarm.

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Start your forum's realtime for free. Since Warble launched, the most common ask has been to try it without a card. Now you can.

The new Free tier gives you a real, dedicated Warble endpoint — the same kind the paid plans run on — at no cost:

100 concurrent connections
Unlimited messages — never metered
Your own dedicated realtime server, not a shared pool
No credit card, one per account

Setup is exactly the same: install the free flarum-warble extension, paste one key from your linkrobins.com dashboard, and your forum is live — no hosts, ports, or daemons.

How it compares

Pusher's free sandbox also stops at 100 connections — but caps you at 200,000 messages a day on shared infrastructure, and a single broadcast to 50 people counts as 51 messages. Warble's free tier is a dedicated server with no message cap at all. And where Pusher's next step up is $49 a month, Warble's is $49 a year.

When you grow

The paid tiers add connections — 250 / 1,000 / 2,000 — and never pause; upgrading takes one click from your dashboard. Free endpoints that sit with zero connections for 30 days are paused to free up capacity, but your keys and address are kept and one click brings them back.

Start free → linkrobins.com/warble

fabre4

KBExit Wow, that's really interesting! I will definitely try it out! Thank you! 😃

Silvestrus

KBExit does it work for v1.8?

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Silvestrus not at the moment, but I can make it if you say pretty please 🥺

Silvestrus

KBExit not at the moment, but I can make it if you say pretty please 🥺

The way I see it, I will stick with v1 for some time. It's too early for me to jump on v2. I'm using Pusher from the beginning of my Flarum forum and it has been ok so far. I wouldn't like to waste your time on migrating this extension to v1 if I'm only one that will use it. I know how time consuming development could be sometimes. And, to tell you the truth, I'm amazed with your production. I see your name everywhere lately. So... Pretty please. 😉 But low priority if there are no more requests for v1 compatibility.

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Silvestrus say no more. I'll release a 1.8.x sometime soon! Aiming by the end of the week.

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Silvestrus Of course, it would require you to have the Blomstra/Realtime extension already purchased though. My extension is not a replacement, but a substitute to hook into my service.

Silvestrus

KBExit I didn't know that. I tried to purchase it once but something was wrong with purchases at that time so I never bought it. Let me remind myself first and examine realtime extension once more to see if my hosting supports it and what other features do we have...

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Silvestrus if you purchase Realtime, I can go ahead and make a 1.8x version of Warble. Your server doesn't need anything special since Warble handles it for you. (Makes Realtime functional 100% without extra configurations).

foros

KBExit thanks !!!!!! 🫂

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foros working just fine? 🙂

foros

KBExit It's not asking for the key.
Where do I paste it?

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foros try disabling the extension, purging, and then re enabling it

foros

KBExit still the same; I recently tried setting up realtime on my server—could that be it?

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[2026-07-08T02:53:32.253660+00:00] flarum.ERROR: (Status 0) cURL error 28: Connection timed out after 3000 milliseconds (see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://www.aportando.com:6001/apps/1/events?auth_key=3XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX2&auth_timestamp=1783479209&auth_version=1.0&body_md5=XXXXXXXXXXc2&auth_signature=6XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX2

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foros no that error log is because your realtime has no websocket. You're going to have that problem until Warble is set up.
Try running composer update && php flarum migrate and if that doesn't resolve it, php flarum assets:publish

Then paste the API key for Warble.

Silvestrus

KBExit if you purchase Realtime, I can go ahead and make a 1.8x version of Warble. Your server doesn't need anything special since Warble handles it for you. (Makes Realtime functional 100% without extra configurations).

I did a bit of digging. First, I confirmed my shared hosting can't run Realtime's own websocket daemon - but I assume Warble solves that with the right entries in the Realtime admin settings, so that part should be fine.

The real blocker right now is that I can't find a way to actually purchase Realtime. Floxum - where the marketplace seems to have moved - the Realtime page currently shows no active subscription plan.

One more thing while we're at it: I'm planning to migrate to v2 by the end of the year, assuming the extensions I depend on are ready by then (and even if not, I could likely handle compatibility adjustments myself with Claude Code). I noticed Realtime is currently marked as not working with v2.0.0-rc.4 - is there a rough timeline for v2 support, or should I hold off on Realtime until after I've migrated?