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Flarum Review

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Pros

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Pro
Very fast loading time

IntuitiveHuehueteotl

Pro
Based on (but not built with) Laravel

Flarum was originally based on Laravel and uses the Eloquent ORM. But it is not a traditional Laravel software.

Cons

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Con
Slow development

Development moves at a glacial pace.

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Con
Very complicated installation process on shared hosts

This is not a MySQL+PHP application. it is impossible or very hard to install on shared hosts compared to vanilla or phpbb.

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