🚀 Flatboard 5.5.1 "AEGIS" — What's new since 5.4.1 This release series brings security hardening, major performance gains, a revamped search experience, and a handful of useful new features.  🔴 Security CSRF protec…
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…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.5.1 "AEGIS" Release date: April 18, 2026 Fixed Core — Login redirect broken in subdirectory installs — After login (including 2FA), the redirect target stored in redirect_after_login is a base-path-stripped URL (as set by AuthMiddleware). LoginController now wraps it with U…
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 5.3.0 — Lighthouse 🏠 We are pleased to announce Flatboard 5.3.0 "Lighthouse". This release marks an important milestone for the Pro edition: FlatHome officially joins the Flatboard Pro plugin pack, replacing EasyPages. It also ships a series of refinements and bug fixes that improve the Fl…
🚀 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…
Flatboard 5.2.0 — Release Notes Release date: March 7, 2026 Highlights FlatSEO — Full SEO suite, now in Flatboard Pro Flatboard 5.2.0 ships FlatSEO, a professional-grade SEO plugin that covers every aspect of search engine optimisation without requiring any third-party service or external dependency…
Changelog - Flatboard 5.1.0 Release date: February 27, 2026 Bug Fixes Notifications — Debug mode warning, bell visibility, per-item delete, and stale native component Several issues were addressed across the notification system: Debug mode alert. When debug is set to true in the forum configuration…
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