🚀 Flatboard 5.8.0 "POLARIS" — Release announcement Released: July 15, 2026 · Covers everything shipped since 5.7.2 (releases 5.7.3 → 5.8.0, codenames BEACON → POLARIS) Flatboard 5.8.0 is the biggest update of the 5.7.x cycle: per-category permissions, unread-discussion tracking, a complete overhaul…
Hello Flatboard Community! 👋 After months of intensive development, testing, and refinement, I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Flatboard v5 Final! 🚀 This release represents a major milestone in Flatboard's evolution, bringing significant improvements to performance, stability, and use…
Flatboard Community Guidelines & Rules Welcome to the Flatboard community! We’re thrilled to have you here. To ensure a positive and productive experience for everyone, please read and follow these guidelines. 1. Getting Support Support is available for users who help test Flatboard and report i…
📓 Changelog — Flatboard 5.8.0 — POLARIS Release date: July 15, 2026 Added Per-category posting permissions (post_groups / create_groups) — read-only and announcement-style categories — requested on flatboard.org thread #184 ("Better permission setup", marketplace use case: everyone can browse the li…
Release date: June 6, 2026 Extensibility New upload.image.saved hook — post-process uploaded images from a plugin — Image uploads had no extension point: a plugin could not compress, strip or convert an image as it was saved. UploadService now fires upload.image.saved right after an image is written…
Most forum guides assume you have a VPS and root access. This one does not. If you are on standard shared hosting — the kind where you get cPanel, an FTP account, and a disk quota — you can run a full-featured forum in 2026 without a VPS, without Docker, and without a database server. Here is exactl…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.3.0 — Lighthouse Release date: March 19, 2026 Highlights FlatHome joins Flatboard Pro — FlatHome replaces EasyPages in the Pro plugin pack. It is a full CMS, homepage, and blog system that transforms any Flatboard forum into a complete web platform. EasyPages users can migr…
Until now, Flatboard offered three display modes: light, dark, or system. Handy, but not exactly exciting. From now on, you can pick from several full interface themes — not just a background color, but a completely different visual style. Head to: Profile > Preferences > Interface Theme. 🖥️ A…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.2.0 Release date: March 7, 2026 Added Analytics — visit tracking system (app/Services/AnalyticsService::recordVisit(), app/Middleware/VisitorTrackingMiddleware.php) — Daily visit and unique-visitor counts are now recorded persistently in stockage/visit_log.json. Unique visi…
Flatboard 5 Final - Changelog Project: Flatboard v5 Final Session Date: January 28, 2026 Type: Bug Fixes, Improvements & New Features 📋 Table of Contents Critical Bug Fixes UI/UX Improvements New Features Performance Optimizations Summary 🐛 Critical Bug Fixes 1. Dropdown Menus Not Working on Pag…
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