Durable discussion
Spaces, categories, threads, posts, revisions, archival, and search are modeled as long-lived community assets.
Independent community infrastructure
Good Phorum
GP stands for Good Phorum. The P in Phorum stands for Perl. A general-purpose, Perl-native forum platform for communities that need durable discussion, explicit governance, serious moderation, and infrastructure that can be operated for years.
- Perl
- application runtime
- BSD-3
- licensed foundation
- Perl
- native by design
PostgreSQL authoritative
Mojolicious SSR
Minion workers
PostgreSQL FTS
Redis optional
Platform
Built for communities that outlive trends.
Good Phorum treats a forum as civic software: conversations, policy, moderation, search, events, and operations are all first-class parts of the system.
Operational moderation
Reports, scoped staff authority, reversible actions, audit logs, and policy versioning keep governance visible.
Independent stack
Modern Perl, Mojolicious, DBIx::Class, PostgreSQL full-text search, Minion, and a Redis-optional coordination model.
Architecture
A modular monolith with distributed instincts.
The design favors explicit boundaries, stateless app nodes, event tables, asynchronous projections, observable workers, and cache layers that can be rebuilt.
Edge
Nginx or HAProxy
Application
Mojolicious nodes
Domain
Identity, discussion, moderation, authorization
Persistence
PostgreSQL, event log, audit log
Derived systems
Minion, PostgreSQL FTS, local caches, realtime
Governance
The rules are part of the product.
Good Phorum does not bury moderation inside ad hoc admin screens. Policy, trust, role scope, auditability, appeals, content lifecycle, and privacy rights are documented as architecture.
Deny by default
Authorization evaluates actor, action, target, scope, resource state, and user state.
Events tell the truth
Durable domain events drive projections, notifications, replay, and audit investigation.
Privacy is operational
Retention, deletion, export, consent, search visibility, and breach readiness are explicit.
Roadmap
A running forum, with room to grow.
The forum HTTP MVP is running. What remains is the hardening that turns a working system into one you can trust with a community.
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Shipped
Identity
Registration, login, server-side sessions, revocation, CSRF, and password and email lifecycle tokens.
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Shipped
Core forum
Categories, threads, replies, revisions, keyset pagination, search, and safe server-rendered composition.
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Shipped
Moderation
Scoped roles, reports, reversible actions, suspensions, and audit review for staff.
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Next
Private beta
Mail delivery, staging drills, database-backed failure tests, and load tests on representative hardware.
Open source, BSD-3-Clause
Read the code. Run the gates.
Clone the repository, install dependencies with Carton, and run make check: syntax, tests, Perl::Critic, perltidy, and the architecture contract.