[marginalia_nu]

The Hard Problem of forum software is how to prevent spam bots and drive-by exploits. It's what killed the previous generation of forums. Reddit usually gets the blame, but that is only true in that they had the economies of scale to survive the increasingly hostile internet ecosystem.

I'm curious how Flarum approaches this.

[luceos]

Aside from bundling an Akismet extension, as a development team we constantly adapt to changing spam runs and publishing these preventions for the public to use. Additionally, being extremely extensible, third party developers have contributed extensions that provide spam prevention and cleanup too, like stopforumspam and others.