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¦
Quick answer Choose Flatboard if you're starting fresh and want a forum that works in 2026 without fighting a codebase built in 2004. No MySQL, no manual updates, actively maintained. Stick with SMF if your community is already running on it and you have no compelling reason to move. SMF still worksβ¦
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¦
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¦
Changelog - Flatboard 5.0.4 Release date: February 19, 2026 New Features Mastodon Share Button with Instance Picker Description: A dedicated Mastodon share button has been added to the social share panel in post threads. Since Mastodon is a decentralized network, clicking the button opens an inlineβ¦
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