π Flatboard 5.8.0 "POLARIS" β Release announcement Released: July 15, 2026 Β· Covers everything shipped since 5.7.2 (releases 5.7.3 β 5.8.0, codenames BEACON β POLARIS) Flatboard 5.8.0 is the biggest update of the 5.7.x cycle: per-category permissions, unread-discussion tracking, a complete overhaulβ¦
Hello Flatboard Community! π After months of intensive development, testing, and refinement, I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Flatboard v5 Final! π This release represents a major milestone in Flatboard's evolution, bringing significant improvements to performance, stability, and useβ¦
Flatboard Community Guidelines & Rules Welcome to the Flatboard community! Weβre 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 iβ¦
Release date: June 6, 2026 Extensibility New upload.image.saved hook β post-process uploaded images from a plugin β 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 writtenβ¦
Installing a forum in 2026 is still more complicated than it needs to be. Popular platforms like IPB, phpBB, Flarum, XenForo, and MyBB all require MySQL or MariaDB. That means: Creating a database Setting up users and permissions Running a schema installer Maintaining a database server For many useβ¦
Flatboard 5.4.0 April 1, 2026 A bigger release than usual β dashboard widgets, private RSS feeds, tag editing, date fixes, and a better update screen. Dashboard widgets Most plugins now have a dashboard widget: ForumMonitoring, FlatModerationExtend, PrivateMessaging, FlatLetter, Reputation, Inactiveβ¦
Most forum guides assume you have a VPS and root access. This one does not. If you are on standard shared hosting β the kind where you get cPanel, an FTP account, and a disk quota β you can run a full-featured forum in 2026 without a VPS, without Docker, and without a database server. Here is exactlβ¦
Flatboard 5.3.0 β Lighthouse π We are pleased to announce Flatboard 5.3.0 "Lighthouse". This release marks an important milestone for the Pro edition: FlatHome officially joins the Flatboard Pro plugin pack, replacing EasyPages. It also ships a series of refinements and bug fixes that improve the Flβ¦
π Changelog β Flatboard 5.3.0 β Lighthouse Release date: March 19, 2026 Highlights FlatHome joins Flatboard Pro β 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 migrβ¦
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 β not just a background color, but a completely different visual style. Head to: Profile > Preferences > Interface Theme. π₯οΈ Aβ¦
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