Flarum 1.0.0 Released - Flarum Community
Eleven years ago, Toby Zerner set out with a mission: to build a forum for the future. The result, esoTalk, was a good product, and an excellent playground for learning and trying ideas. After a few years, esoTalk evolved into something bigger: a revolutionary new design, based around simplicity, elegance, and ease of use. This was the birth of Flarum.
Now, seven years and sixteen beta releases later by over hundred contributors, Flarum finds itself in an exciting period! Adoption of our software has skyrocketed, a substantial extension ecosystem has emerged, and even enterprises are migrating over. Although Toby has moved on to other entrepreneurial projects, the Flarum team is larger and more active than ever, with over a dozen people working passionately to advance the project. In 2019, the Flarum Foundation was brought into existence to safeguard the future of Flarum as a free and open-source product. We’ve also converted to a steady 2-3 month release cycle, and with that we managed to release the first stable version!
Our team at Flarum believes that the time has come to challenge the traditional forum design and architecture. While forums at their core have remained very much the same over the years, we see that people want something more, and we're here to build it. Flarum has been created specifically to engage and enhance community interactions in a digital world and to develop lean, extensible software that improves the experience of the admin, moderator, extension developer, and most importantly, the user.
