Why do you love flarum?

joiel

Pls help me, to know more about flarum. what make it better framework than other? Thankss

Ranger

It's user interface

Arkinn

It's speed and simplicity (ease of use), to name many things I like about it.

Freddy

Absolutely nothing, it's a preference like most of the stuff in the world. Talking about Frameworks, then it's buildt on a quite heavy and extensive one.

Flarum == Apple
phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, XForo ec == Android

Just depends on what kind of customer you are ?

Digital

Freddy Absolutely nothing

That's quite a statement.

There are always pros and cons in every comparison. So, that statement doesn't quite fit when you are trying to compare two or more things. Though, i absolutely agree that it's all about personal preference.

HavocK

It's UI and felxibility.

Freddy Flarum == Apple

Yeeaaaaaah right... Everyone knows that Apple is open source... amaright ?!

Kyrne

I like that Flarum makes it easy to write extensions.

Freddy my question is if you don't think it's any better, what made you choose it over something else?

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Freddy

Freddy Flarum == Apple
phpBB, vBulletin, IPB, XForo ec == Android

Sooooooo true ?

Freddy

Digital In my 16 years as a developer and devops, then the pro's and cons is in 99% of the cases, based on your preferences.

One could argue that many other boards are far better, more powerful and reliable by default, simply because they have a bigger follower base, been around longer and have a much stronger dev team. The use of such a small unknown board like Flarum, that's not ~~actively being developed~~, in Alpha mode and it's team strongly discourage production use, is based on preference.

Even Flarum is made and based of another board, Discourse, but the developers prefer PHP and wrote their own (Almost identical) board.

In today's society it's next to impossible to "make something new", and in the world of bulletin boards your going to struggle tremendously to be unique. And ultimately, what board is best for you and your visitors, is solely based on your personal preferences.

I personally use / want to use Flarum for my love for PHP and respect anyone that tries to make innovative applications with very reliable and functional PHP instead of hiding behind extremely new, dont-even-know-if-their-fly-by-languages-yet like Go and Node.

HavocK The UI of Flarum is one of the exact reasons that i compare it with Apple, the UI other boards provide is the same mess you see in Android, powerful, but easy to fuck up.

Digital

Freddy Like i said, i absolutely agree with you about personal preference.

My question is - What makes you say that it's aboslutely nothing better than other paltforms?

Based on how you construct your words (combination of words), i think there is something you do not understand:

Freddy Even Flarum is made and based of another board, Discourse

I do not think you know this project well enough to throw that assumption:

http://flarum.org/story/

http://tobyzerner.com/flarum/

Freddy The use of such a small unknown board like Flarum

Let's say less popular instead? Or less stable? ?

Freddy that's not actively being developed

We are very fortunate that Flarum is being actively developed.

Freddy it's team strongly discourage production use

This is an ovbious answer - We are still in Beta. I do not think Apple will launch a business (software) in beta state.

Freddy The UI of Flarum is one of the exact reasons that i compare it with Apple, the UI other boards provide is the same mess you see in Android, powerful, but easy to fuck up.

Ahh, Flarum has flat design. And Apple is actually not. There is no any resemblance i can see so far.

Plus, you fully understand that you are judging a beta software versus stable one?

Freddy

Christ.

Why does so many moderator posts feel like their being posted to up their post count or just to keep the convo alive? Thanks for breaking up my description and literally take every concept out of context and mis-understandand and twist it around completely.

As for my Apple anology, if you don't get it, fine, it's a joke in Flarum's favor, it's never funny if it has to be explained, so you will just have to figure it out on your own.

HavocK

As for your "Apple analogy" i see no mention on the design in your first post... So yeah, it was vague.

Freddy Thanks for breaking up my description and literally take every concept out of context and mis-understandand and twist it around completely

I already heard that somewhere... hmmm i wonder where...

Back on track : we all know that it's about a personal preference so, this statement is pointless (IMO).
Which lead to the following question :

Why does so many users posts feel like their being posted to up their post count or just to keep the convo alive ?

IMO Flarum adds something fresh and is not bloated like PHPBB (i used since 2004... and i still love it), but it feels old.

Digital

I do agree about the apple analogy, which i absolutely misunderstood. Apologies for that.

But i still can't understand why did you assumed the other things i mentioned (quoted) above.

For the record, i am not here to rack up my posts count. I am doing this on my own free time to help the developers and the community.

Back on the topic.
I love Flarum because of it's simplicity and extensibility.

0E800

#derailed.

Flarum is awesome because the developers are not cry babies and the community is flexible and kind to eachother.

I have all sorts of phones but Flarum defiantly has the better camera and infinity edge screen. Plus unlike Android and Apple, Flarum has Smart Tiles. :thumbup:

Freddy

I have all sorts of phones but Flarum defiantly has the better camera and infinity edge screen. Plus unlike Android and Apple, Flarum has Smart Tiles. :thumbup:

LOL! Finally some humor.

Digital

It is not pointless. The goal here is to help someone who is undecided to pick a platform that will work for him.

People look for a specific need, personal preference, feature and budget that is similar to others - That is why reviews, feedback, poll, advice, comparison & insights exists. Remember, not everyone is knowledgeable off all things, that is why most of people rely solely on these things.

This kind of question exists because some if not most people do not know where to start. And those feebacks are essential on a persons decision making.

Freddy

Digital Your wrong on every count. You don't need to know or understand how a forum works, you need to know and understand what you expect and want from the forum. If you don't have the answer to that before you start, then don't start.

webeindustry

No reason to get excited, people.

Blueh

i don't love it, i hate it, very slow development >:c

Prosperous

It is definitely a new type of forum but what I like most about it is that it is home-grown (being a fellow aussie myself), it's simple yet effective and basically everything I need and expect in a forum is provided out-of-the-box. I have been a big fan of IP.Board and XenForo before however Flarum is free and will stay that way. I guess that's another selling point. I have no need for extremely fancy extensions or modifications and will basically use Flarum as a discussion board in tandem with a hosting service, exactly the kind of thing every other forum software does to an extent but without all the bloat and reliance on numerous parties.

To take into account the analogy that @Freddy has used, I will always be a fan of using an Apple iPhone or Google Pixel as opposed to other phones that introduce bloatware or their own "edge" to the operating system. Hopefully that makes sense? Although the new Samsung S8 is looking the goods...

Flarum is built on principles that I believe in and the staff and general community are a great one. I have been around since the early days and will continue to be a user should things continue running on this awesome path, despite the few bumps you experience along the way.

joiel

Thank you so much guys for your support, its very helpful.