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Very nice. I love the technology stack, and am curious whether it can run on shared hosting. I see some bash scripts in the source though, and I wonder whether this will alienate windows devs or not.

The technology choices seem to be: PHP + Laravel components + LessCss + Mithrill.

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Thanks! The compiled source (http://flarum.org/download) should run on shared hosting no problems. The bash scripts are only for building that ZIP that we put up for download, and setting up a Vagrant development environment. See http://flarum.org/docs/contributing for more info.

Another question: how do you plan to deal with SEO?

We output a copy of the page's data within <noscript> tags. (e.g. http://discuss.flarum.org/?nojs=1) Admittedly it's currently pretty bare-bones and not actually very optimized, haha

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