Flarum - next-generation forum

[ctrl]

This is a great piece of software. While still being in beta status (0.1.0-beta.3) it is backed by a great community. The project is very active according to its Github repo. And there's a roadmap which aims to bring the project to stable by the end of version 0.1.0. Also someone maintains a docker image already.

[heliostatic]

I've been a fan for a long time -- would love to see it on Cloudron.

[ctrl]

I can't tell what the point of view of the Cloudron Team is in regards to apps requiring a LAMP stack - which is available as an One-Click-Solution already. I'm not sure if it is worth the hassle to create a Cloudron package for applications based upon LAMP since the installation process is quite trivial in most cases. Of course autoupdates, usermanagement, et al. would be decoupled from the cloudron management interface in this scenario.

[sysadminguy]

+1 for this.

[A Former User]

Man this looks great.

[yusf]

Some work has been done on an LDAP extension too.

[girish]

Currently, the docs suggest that it is beta software and discourage one from using it - https://flarum.org/docs/install.html

[yusf]

Alright, let’s wait.

[jdaviescoates]

Looking forward to this having a stable release!

[jdaviescoates]

The developers guess a stable release will be out before the summer, so not long!

See https://twitter.com/luceos/status/1375397458214281220

[nikkuexe]

Flarum is live with a stable release as of May 27

[timconsidine]

@nikkuexe Interesting. I've been watching this on & off but progress seemed to have been slow, even non-existent. So that's great news !

Having experienced this forum using NodeBB, I am not too sure if Flarum is better, but will take another look.

[humptydumpty]

@timconsidine NodeBB is great but I've spotted this forum running slow often so Flarum might be a better choice if it's lighter on resources (which I think it is).

[jdaviescoates]

@Staff @appdev it'd be great to get Flarum packaged now that it's been released as stable!

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27394-flarum-100-released
https://github.com/flarum/flarum/releases/tag/v1.0.0
https://docs.flarum.org/install.html

(and to add LDAP to Discourse and NodeBB too, of course )

[girish]

@jdaviescoates Flarum does not have LDAP, does it? (atleast, not afaict)

[robi]

@girish
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/9515-ldap-login-extension

[A Former User]

@robi Seems super beta rn but might be worth looking into testing for stability.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Flarum - next-generation forum:

@jdaviescoates Flarum does not have LDAP, does it? (atleast, not afaict)

I didn't actually check, it's just whenever I mention anything to do with forums I like to slip in my request for LDAP for Discourse too because I'd really like that

The main thing Flarum has going for it is it's a nicely designed forum with low resource requirements.

[robi]

In most situations I've come across you don't actually want to have forum users managed by LDAP, or if you do, not have so many users to manage in Cloudron.

There are levels and layers, and public/private/mgmt users sometimes need separation.

[jdaviescoates]

We've gone off topic (my bad) @robi, but I'd like to use Discourse pretty much like Discourse for Teams.

But I'd also like to use LDAP for more public forums too.

What I want is exactly what is already achievable with Rocket.Chat, i.e. team members can login using their Cloudron credentials using LDAP, but other people can also separately simply register on Rocket.Chat too.

At present it's annoying and confusing for my users that they can use their Cloudron login for all the apps we use apart from Discourse.