The forum platform you can rewrite.
forumify is an open-source forum you actually own. Every template in it, core or plugin, is yours to override from the admin panel: styles, markup, Twig, all of it. Run it on your own hardware, or let us run it for you.
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Illustration, not a live forum.
Every default is a starting point.
Most of what forum software decides on your behalf, forumify hands back. These are the three you will reach for most.
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Every template
Core or plugin, any template in the system can be overridden from the admin panel. Your version sits beside the original, so an upgrade never overwrites your work.
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Every page
Assemble pages from widgets and column layouts, then drop into Twig the moment the widgets run out. Both live in the same editor.
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Every permission
Roles stack and rank. Access is granted per item and per action, so a section lead gets exactly the rights they need and nothing above them.
Four places you’ll spend your time.
The admin panel is the product. This is what you get on day one, on every plan, self-hosted or cloud.
Drag widgets into columns to build the front page, a landing page, or a rules page. When the widgets run out, drop in a Twig widget and write the markup yourself. No plugin required either way.
CMS documentationSet the colour tokens from a form, then open any template in the browser and override it. Plugin templates sit in the same tree as the core ones. Overrides live beside the original rather than replacing it, so an upgrade never eats your work.
| Role | View | New topic | Comment | Moderate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guest | Not granted | Not granted | Not granted | Not granted |
| Player | Not granted | Not granted | Not granted | Not granted |
| Playtester | Granted | Not granted | Granted | Not granted |
| Community manager | Granted | Granted | Granted | Not granted |
| Developer | Granted | Granted | Granted | Granted |
Two layers. Role permissions gate whole components of the admin panel; access control lists gate one item at a time, action by action. Every forum, page and menu item defines its own set, and roles are ranked so nobody can delegate upward.
Security documentation- Trigger Topic created
- Condition forum == “releases”
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- Action Discord webhook
- Action Give role · Subscriber
- Action Send message
Pick a trigger, write a condition in expression language, fan out to actions: webhooks, HTTP requests, roles, badges, topics, direct messages. Anything the platform persists can start a flow, which is how cross-posting to Discord and friends gets built.
Automation documentationThe rest of it, plainly.
Same core on every plan. Nothing on this list is an upsell.
- Forums
- Categories, subforums, tags, reactions, badges, reputation, and permissions set per forum.
- CMS
- A visual page builder with widgets and column layouts, or raw Twig when you outgrow it.
- Theming
- Colour tokens, radii and type from a form, plus a browser editor for every template.
- Roles
- Guest and User are automatic. You define the rest, ranked so nobody can delegate upward.
- Access control
- Role permissions gate components. Access control lists gate one item at a time, per action.
- Automations
- Triggers on any entity write, expression-language conditions, webhook and HTTP actions.
- Sign-in
- Discord and Google out of the box, plus any other OAuth2 provider, including your own.
- Anti-spam
- Bot detection on registration and login, backed by reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile.
- Moderation
- Hide content, ban members, and read every write in the system back from the audit log.
- REST API
- Endpoints for forums, topics, comments and users. Plugins register their own on the same base.
- Notifications
- In-app and email alerts for replies, mentions, subscriptions and follows.
- Plugins
- Install from the marketplace, or write your own against the platform bundle.
Add the parts we didn’t build.
Paid plugins extend the platform; the forum underneath them never changes. Some are ours, some are the community’s.
Pick who runs the server.
That is the whole decision. The forum is identical on all three, because we don’t hold features back for a higher tier.
Self‑hosted
Free
Run forumify on your own infrastructure. For communities with server administrators and developers who plan to customise heavily.
Read the install guide- Every feature, every plugin
- Full server and database access
- You manage the infrastructure
- Community support only1
Most communities start here
Cloud
€18.33/month
€19.99/month
€219.99 charged once a year, which is one month cheaper than paying monthly. €19.99 charged every month.
We host it, patch it and back it up. Running in minutes, for communities without the appetite to run a server.
Start on cloud- Updates, backups and TLS handled
- Bring your own domain2
- Support from the people who build it
- Approved plugins only3
Not ready to commit? Start a demo instance and explore a real cloud install for six hours.
Enterprise
Let’s talk
Dedicated hosting, custom development and consultancy. For studios and companies that need a player community wired into systems they already run.
Email sales@forumify.net
- Dedicated, isolated hosting
- Custom plugin development
- Migration and integration consultancy
- A direct line to the maintainers
- Bugs go to GitHub. Community support runs through the forumify.net forums and Discord.
- forumify.net is not a registrar. Buy the domain wherever you like and we’ll send linking instructions during setup.
- Cloud instances share infrastructure, so plugins are reviewed before they can be installed. Instances are subject to our hosting terms. Dedicated hosting on Enterprise lifts the restriction.
Who is already on it.
More than 200 communities have been set up on forumify cloud since 2024. Four of them, in their own words, excerpted and linked.
The MILHQ plugin is a lifesaver, making it easy to track attendance, organize operations, and handle personnel files, all without relying on outdated spreadsheets. After two decades of running our community, it’s great to finally have a platform that keeps us organized and saves us a ton of time.
John LaFlash
3rd Infantry Division Realism Unit
Running since 2003
While Discord is excellent for real-time communication, forumify fills the critical gap of providing a structured and permanent space to document operational history, display events, and serve as an information hub. Having tried other forum solutions in the past, forumify was the one that truly met all our expectations.
Oscar Ellis
28th Combined Arms Division
Came from another forum
forumify stands out with its unique, easy to read interface, easy setup, and powerful tools for managing discussions, outperforming older alternatives. After purchasing forumify’s Cloud Hosting, which is like a 2 click setup, forumify staff were there the entire way, answering questions no matter their nature.
Jake Holiday
3rd Ranger Battalion
On forumify cloud
As a long-standing Arma 3 community, we’ve been looking for a service that supports us in the ways Discord doesn’t, such as in our administration and record-keeping. We’re very happy with how flexible forumify staff has been in providing for our specific needs and working with our ideas.
FoxTopic
47th Joint Operations Unit
Setting up now
Built in the open.
Releases and previews get written up on our own forum. Subscribe and you’ll know what changed before it lands.
Three ways to run it. Same forum every time.
Start on cloudSelf-hosting? The install guide takes it from here. Something larger? sales@forumify.net.