Flarum
Flarum is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed MIT and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Reddit. It has 16,431 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 9, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 16,431
- Forks
- 1,671
- Open issues
- 0
- Commits, last 12 months
- 15
- Last commit
- Oct 9, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.0.0Oct 9, 2026
- Created
- Dec 30, 2014
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 9, 2026, last release Oct 9, 2026.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 9, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 15 |
| Latest release | v2.0.0 (Oct 9, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 2 |
| Releases, all time | 41 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 30, 2014 |
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About Flarum
Delightfully simple forums. Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun again.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/flarum/flarum.
Topics
- php
- forum
- flarum
- laravel
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Is Flarum free and open source?
Yes. Flarum is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Flarum with Docker?
Flarum does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Flarum?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Flarum include Mastodon, Discourse and Answer. Flarum itself is a self-hosted alternative to Reddit.
Is Flarum actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Flarum was on Oct 9, 2026 with 15 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.0.0, published Oct 9, 2026. It had 0 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.