Your community deserves a real forum
Etaboards gives you a modern, fully-featured discussion board on your own subdomain — provisioned in under a minute, free to start, no server required.
yourcommunity.etaboards.app is waiting.
Everything a community needs
Built like the forum software you grew up with — without the hosting, updates, or security patches.
A real discussion board
Categories, forums, topics and posts with a rich editor, reactions, @mentions, tags, quoting and a proper unread system — the classic forum experience, modernised.
Make it truly yours
Themes control every page through a slot system. Go further with your own components and client-side hooks. Server-side code only runs on hosted boards after Etaboards has reviewed it.
Serious moderation tools
A reports kanban, warnings, suspensions and bans, content rules, spam defenses with captcha, and registration controls from open to invite-only.
Groups & permissions
Fine-grained permissions per group, per forum. Staff roles, member ranks, validation gates — you decide exactly who can do what.
Optional modules
Events, achievements, a virtual economy, avatar galleries and more — flip them on when you want them.
Zero servers, zero patching
Your own subdomain with TLS, an isolated database, file storage with public images on a CDN, and automatic updates. You run the community; we run the infrastructure.
Live in under a minute
Pick your address
Choose a name and a subdomain — yourcommunity.etaboards.app.
Confirm your email
One click on the confirmation link and we build your board: database, defaults, your admin account.
Start posting
You land on your board signed in as its administrator, usually in under a minute.
Free, with no paid plans yet.
Every board is free, including every module available on hosted boards. There are no paid plans yet, and nothing is ever charged without you opting in.
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