Hello,
After personally running Flarum on a Raspberry Pi 5 for about a year, I really like it:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/35021-rasp ... -debian-12
IMHO, Flarum is what phpBB wishes it was. Flarum is lightweight, similar to phpBB, and is also Open Source. It's addittionally mobile-friendly, unlike phpBB. Try creating a free user account in that flagship instance above, and test its use in the "Off-Topic" area, if you don't believe me:
https://discuss.flarum.org/t/off-topic
There's also an Open Source project called "Nitro Porter", to migrate an existing forum (all user accounts, posts, etc. etc) from phpBB to Flarum:
https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter
Note: Nitro Porter can also migrate to Vanilla Forum, and Waterhole. But I have no experience with those other two forum types.
After personally running Flarum on a Raspberry Pi 5 for about a year, I really like it:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/35021-rasp ... -debian-12
IMHO, Flarum is what phpBB wishes it was. Flarum is lightweight, similar to phpBB, and is also Open Source. It's addittionally mobile-friendly, unlike phpBB. Try creating a free user account in that flagship instance above, and test its use in the "Off-Topic" area, if you don't believe me:
https://discuss.flarum.org/t/off-topic
There's also an Open Source project called "Nitro Porter", to migrate an existing forum (all user accounts, posts, etc. etc) from phpBB to Flarum:
https://github.com/linc/nitro-porter
Note: Nitro Porter can also migrate to Vanilla Forum, and Waterhole. But I have no experience with those other two forum types.
Statistics: Posted by esbeeb — Tue Jun 03, 2025 9:28 am