Flarum

Forums & Communities - Provides a complete engine for building and managing online community forums with threaded discussions.

Customization Frameworks - Offers a flexible framework for extending core forum features through custom plugins and extenders.

Threaded Discussion Interfaces - Implements a threaded discussion engine to organize user posts into hierarchical structures.

Relational Database Persistence - Uses a relational SQL database to persist forum threads, posts, and user profiles.

REST APIs - Exposes a RESTful API to handle data exchange between the client and server using JSON.

Extensible Frameworks - Provides an extensible community platform allowing developers to modify system behavior via custom extenders.

Discussion Forums - Maintains dedicated discussion forums for peer-to-peer interaction and community engagement.

Hook-Based Extension Frameworks - Provides a hook-based extension framework that allows custom extender classes to modify core system behavior.

Module Functionality Extenders - Supports module functionality extenders that allow developers to modify existing library methods and properties.

Single Page Applications - Employs a single-page application architecture combining a JSON API backend with a JavaScript frontend.

Self-Hosted Discussion Boards - Functions as a self-hosted environment for community conversations with full administrative control.

Self-Hosted Forums - Supports deploying and configuring a private forum system on your own server for full data control.

Communication and Community - Fast, simple forum software for communities.

Communication Platforms - Simple forum software for building communities.

Social Networks - Listed in the “Social Networks” section of the Awesome Selfhosted awesome list.

Social Networks and Forums - Simple and modern forum software.

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