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¦
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¦
Creating a forum used to mean setting up a server, configuring MySQL, running a database installer, and spending an afternoon getting everything to talk to each other. In 2026, that is no longer the only option β and for most use cases, it is not even the best one. This guide shows you the simplestβ¦
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¦
Hey everyone! After 10 months of development, I'm thrilled to announce that the first Release Candidate (RC) of Flatboard is now available! You can finally test it on your own servers. I want to give a huge thank you to all the users who provided feedback throughout this journey. Your input has beenβ¦
Flatboard Changelog Welcome to the official Flatboard Changelog π All updates, improvements, bug fixes, and changes related to Flatboard will be published here. π Important Notes All changelogs will be written in English Updates will be posted in Markdown format Each release will include clear detaiβ¦
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