🚀 Flatboard 5.8.0 "POLARIS" — Release announcement Released: July 15, 2026 · Covers everything shipped since 5.7.2 (releases 5.7.3 → 5.8.0, codenames BEACON → POLARIS) Flatboard 5.8.0 is the biggest update of the 5.7.x cycle: per-category permissions, unread-discussion tracking, a complete overhaul…
Flatboard 5.7.2 "BEACON" — what changed since 5.6.0 "BASTION" Three weeks and about a dozen point releases. This note collects everything between BASTION (5.6.0) and the current 5.7.2, grouped by what it does for you rather than which patch it shipped in. The codename fits the work. BASTION closed t…
Hello Flatboard Community! 👋 After months of intensive development, testing, and refinement, I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Flatboard v5 Final! 🚀 This release represents a major milestone in Flatboard's evolution, bringing significant improvements to performance, stability, and use…
Flatboard Community Guidelines & Rules Welcome to the Flatboard community! We’re 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 i…
Release date: June 6, 2026 Extensibility New upload.image.saved hook — post-process uploaded images from a plugin — 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 written…
Installing a forum in 2026 is still more complicated than it needs to be. Popular platforms like IPB, phpBB, Flarum, XenForo, and MyBB all require MySQL or MariaDB. That means: Creating a database Setting up users and permissions Running a schema installer Maintaining a database server For many use…
Flatboard 5.4.0 April 1, 2026 A bigger release than usual — 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, Inactive…
Most forum guides assume you have a VPS and root access. This one does not. If you are on standard shared hosting — the kind where you get cPanel, an FTP account, and a disk quota — you can run a full-featured forum in 2026 without a VPS, without Docker, and without a database server. Here is exactl…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.3.0 — Lighthouse Release date: March 19, 2026 Highlights FlatHome joins Flatboard Pro — 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 migr…
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 — not just a background color, but a completely different visual style. Head to: Profile > Preferences > Interface Theme. 🖥️ A…
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