[Long Term] New Channel Types

Hello ! I didn't know about flarum ! That's a cool discovery. I'm more than willing to add this idea to the main message, but could you first explain maybe a bit more what a "flarum type" forum involves? A (very) quick look at it and I'm under the impression it is like a discord forum, with tags that you can apply and then filter with ? Is your proposition more about features or display style ? Thanks a lot !

Hi okay I will try to explain what I mean. I think what I mean is a mixture of both feature and display style. I try to keep it short but if it becomes a wall of text I apologize in advance. English is not my native language, so if i write something nonsensical please ask for clarification I will try to rephrase then :-) Starting with how discord does the forum. honestly its visual style is cluttered, unclear and I find it hard to find the right forum threads. I am not sure if just visually changing the display would make it better. I compared the discord style to the flarum forum style to see the difference. here a screenshot side by side of a flarum forum and a discord forum to compare: Screenshot-20260417-001 The Flarum forum has less white-space compared to the discord forum. It adds in categories which is nice and shows who and when has replied to the thread instead of just showing part of the thread starters first sentence. The flarum forum shows the avatar of the thread starter which saves on space making the display more compact and makes the different threads visually more distinct from each other. A discord server can have multiple "forums" which is a cool feature. But sometimes on a discord with lots of channels its hard to find them all. The first ideas come to mind is to have a button that just hides every channel except forum channels. Another idea would be a forum view. It switches to a view similar to flarum and converts the different "forums" and "forum groups" into flarum Categories/sub categories and shows just the threads. screenshot what I mean with forum group and forums: Screenshot-20260417-003 and the last part: a bridge to a public flarum forum option: Making it possible to connect the internal forums of a community to a public forum either all or only some (configurable by Admins/mods) This could be made with a flarum plugin that enables a fluxer bridge. The route of a plugin for a forum software would also make it agnostic to which forum software is used as people who dont want to use flarum as their public forum could just write a plugin for the forum software of their choice and connect the internal forums of their own fluxer comunity to another forum software like phpbb, discourse etc. I think I could write a lot more paragraphs but that would likely go to much into detail how something should look or implementation. I hope my rambling makes half way sense :-)

I see ! So, to try and recap (tell me if I'm wrong) :

• Make forums more compact
  • Remove useless whitespace
  • Display things more "inline"
  • Remove useless information
• Add more complex tags, so that you have categories
• Add forum groups
• Ideally, add flarum bridge

If I understood correctly, that indeed seems interesting ! I added this discussion to the main message as part of discussions about the forum channel. Edit: Don't hesitate to expand even more on your ideas ! It can be helpful for devs if they end up wanting to implement this :p

yeah that sounds good :-) Your recap feels like a good baseline :-) I will think how to expand my ideas more. Thanks for considering my ideas :-)

Couldn't this be done via the CSS stuff or smth?