Flarum

The newest installment of Flarum is now available.

It includes tag mentioning, self-deletion of posts, new user creation from the admin and many performance improvements and bug fixes.

Read the full announcement over on our blog: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32899-flarum-v180-released

🚀 Flarum v1.6.0 - Kookaburra, with its infectious laugh, brings happiness into your community!

Bugfixes and group mentioning are part of this release, as well as improvements to the statistics extension.

Read all about it on discuss: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/31967-flarum-v160-released

You might have read the stories; "we decided to sell without a product and couldn't keep up" or "we built an email list, but no one eventually paid for the product". Building in the open is another of those hypes that everyone talks about. Or having to build a userbase, you need to attract attention by sharing, tweeting, streaming and so much more; but there's never a guarantee it will help.

Hacking your own startup together isn't about choosing the path others succeeded on, because their failures likely had an influence on how exactly they continued.

One of the things I found helpful is finding people motivate you to finish the product. These can obviously be leads, but also just friends or fellow tech enthusiasts. This support helps keep your motivation in check and allows you to look at your project positively.

Because when you're passionate about your project, you're also far more capable of marketing it. In Dutch there's a saying

What the heart is full of, the mouth overflows.

And so that's something I live by. Not always easy but sharing what you're doing with the people willing to listen, helping them grow when you grow through their dedication and support for you, is what strengthens resolve, creates hope and builds a tight community around yourself and your product. A community you can later activate as a network to pitch and promote your product.

Good luck building Indies 😉

🚀 Satin Bowerbird has flown in as Flarum v1.5.0!

This release includes many improvements to bundled extensions like Likes and Subscription. It also tackles some of the items from our security roadmap, like throttling specific endpoints. In addition, UTF8 discussion slugs are now natively supported!

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/31599-flarum-v150-released

Read up on all the changes 🤓 and if you enjoy Flarum, make sure to leave your review on Slant so that we can achieve world domination 😂!

People seem to love Flarum! We've been working on it for quite a while, but have leveled up recently in our efforts. Ever since our stable release adoption has become increasingy higher and this has translated into our rating on Slant!

I love the fact that Slant allows an easy way of providing feedback, this has also caused us to prioritize some of our larger tasks. Tasks that we could only execute on using donations, by paying some of our developers. An example for instance is the upcoming package manager - allowing easier extension installation and updates - and the installation files - auto-generated installations of Flarum for different php versions.

v1.5 is on the horizon, which will tackle a lot of larger tasks including many items from our security roadmap.

Follow this project for updates! And thanks for reading.