Hi everyone,
We're Cedric and Matt C., the developers behind Foroverse. We've always had a huge affinity for online communities, and for months we've been building a platform to help people find independent communities again.
Forums have been a huge part of the internet for decades, and great ones are still out there. Finding them has become the hard part. Foroverse brings the public discussions of independent forums together in one place, so people can discover them, follow the ones they care about and jump into a thread that catches their interest.
Foroverse is not here to replace your forum. Your community keeps its members, identity, rules and content. Every click on a thread lands on your forum. Foroverse is simply another way for people to find you.
Foroverse for XenForo
For XenForo we've built a free add-on that connects your forum in a few clicks.
You choose which sections to share. New threads, edits and deletions reach Foroverse within a minute.
Only what guests can read is ever sent. Private sections and member lists never leave your forum.
You decide what shows: thumbnails, author names, excerpts (250 to 500 words), the full first post, a listing in the Foroverse directory. Every one is a switch, and switching one off removes it from Foroverse at once.
You can pause sharing or disconnect at any time.
Connected forums get the Verified badge.
If Cloudflare or your host blocks incoming calls, the add-on switches to firewall mode by itself, so you have nothing to set up.
For your members
Account linking: members link their forum account to Foroverse, follow your community there and see which threads have new replies.
Sign in with Foroverse: an optional login button for your board.
Posting from Foroverse: if you switch it on, members can reply, start threads and like posts from Foroverse. Everything is posted under their own account on your forum, through your permissions, flood limits, approval queue and spam checks.
Most helpful chart: an opt-in monthly chart of your most helpful members. Both you and the member have to switch it on.
Every one of these is off or on at your choice, and you can change it in your admin panel or on Foroverse. The two stay in step.
Getting started
Download the add-on from foroverse.com/for-forums/xenforo. It needs XenForo 2.2.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.
Install it from Add-ons > Install/upgrade from archive.
Open Setup > Foroverse, click Connect to Foroverse and confirm.
Choose the sections to share.
The add-on is free, and its code is visible, so you can check exactly what it does.
Not ready for an add-on? You can add any forum by its RSS feeds at foroverse.com/for-forums.
We're only getting started
Some parts of Foroverse will change. Some ideas will work better than we expected, and others will need rethinking. We want the people who run communities to have a real say in where it goes.
So have a look, connect a forum if it suits you, and tell us what you think, here or on our community. If something is confusing, missing or just wrong, we want to hear it.
Thanks for reading!
Last edited by Cedric
