Fireside is a free, open-source forum software package powered by PHP and MySQL. It is designed to be:
- Fast. Fireside's code is architectured to have little overhead and to be as efficient as possible.
- Simple. All of Fireside's interfaces are designed around simplicity, ease-of-use, and speed.
- Powerful. Fireside is designed to be easily extended, with support for plugins and skins.
Fireside is a fork of the esoTalk PHP software by Toby Zerner.
Installing Fireside is super easy. In brief, simply:
- Download Fireside.
- Extract and upload the files to your PHP-enabled web server.
- Visit the location in your web browser and follow the instructions in the installer.
Fireside provides a Vagrant developer environment that uses Docker and Compose behind the scenes.
To run a local copy of Fireside, install Vagrant and run:
$ vagrant up
If you encounter any problems, please create an issue.