Monica Work & team· Instead of Dex
A personal CRM for friends and family: birthdays, conversations and the message you keep meaning to send.
Flarum
A forum for your community: conversations instead of an endless timeline.
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What Flarum does
Flarum is a forum that handles like an app: posts load in without rebuilding the page, and it reads the same way on a phone.
Instead of rigid sub-forums there are tags. Anything beyond that — polls, mentions, signing in through other services — comes as an extension you switch on.
Conversations instead of an endless timeline- Tags instead of rigid sub-forums
- Extensions for polls, mentions and sign-in
- Reads like an app on a phone
Good to know before the first start. The first visit asks for a forum name and the first account, which becomes the administrator. A public forum attracts spam — if in doubt, switch registration to invitation only.
Flarum instead of Facebook Groups
What you get out of it
- Conversations by tag, easy to find again
- No ads and no algorithm doing the sorting
- Your community’s posts live in your own database
| Facebook Groups and Podless | Facebook Groups | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | Facebook GroupsOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | Facebook GroupsNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | Facebook GroupsPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | Facebook GroupsUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | Facebook GroupsAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | Facebook GroupsYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Additional information
- Category
- Work & team
- Replaces
- Facebook Groups, Discourse, phpBB
- Recommended size
- 0.25 cores · 1 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage
- Estimated per month
- €2.62 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
- Source
- flarum/flarum
Common questions
At the recommended size (0.25 cores · 1 GB RAM · 10 GB Storage) about €2.62 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Flarum and you only pay for storage.
No. No server, no Docker, no terminal commands. You click start and Flarum runs. Updates are tested on our own instances first and then rolled out.
In your own Flarum instance on servers in Germany and France; bulk storage sits in Frankfurt. Add your own S3 bucket and we back up there daily, encrypted.
Flarum is open source and keeps running on your own server. You fetch the files over a time-limited SFTP access and reach the database with the credentials from the dashboard.
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