FlatBB vs Discourse, Flarum, and phpBB: a lightweight PHP forum for shared hosting — and for AI
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Most “modern” forum stacks assume you have Docker, Composer, Redis, and spare RAM. A lot of real communities only have cheap shared hosting and an FTP client. FlatBB is a free MIT-licensed forum in plain PHP 8.1+ aimed at that reality: unzip a folder, open the installer, pick SQLite or MySQL, and y…
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- 2026-09-09 06:27 · DEV Community — AI
FlatBB vs Discourse, Flarum, and phpBB: a lightweight PHP forum for shared hosting — and for AI