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Habitat vs Flarum: catalog facts
Habitat	Flarum
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Discussions tied to specific local locations No ads or data harvesting	Large ecosystem of community extensions Group permissions and built-in moderation
Small, young project with a limited community Each instance serves one local area	Needs a PHP server to host Version 2.0 is still a release candidate
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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