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Members show off their builds, whatever your forum is about: cars, PC builds, keyboards, guitars, gardens, bikes, cameras. For Flarum 2.

A page for every build. A big cover photo, a gallery with a full-screen viewer (arrows, Escape, swipe), the story, and a spec sheet. Stages from Planning to Finished, For sale and Retired.
Spec sheets you design. Each category gets its own fields: text, number (with a unit like hp or kg), choice and link. Pick which ones show on the build cards, and which ones members can filter by. Renaming a field keeps every build's value.
A build log. Dated updates with photos and what they cost, shown as a timeline. The build adds up what's been spent so far.
Follow, like, comment. Members follow a build and get a notification (and an email, if they want one) for every new update. Comments go on the build or on a single update; the owner is told about each one.
The Garage page. Category chips, search, filters by stage and by your filter fields, sorted by recently updated, newest, most liked, most followed or most updates, with moderator-picked featured builds on top.
On profiles. A Garage tab with the member's builds, their updates, likes and spend. Drafts stay private until published.
In posts. Paste a build's link on a line of its own and the post shows the build's card. "Start a discussion about it" opens the composer with the link already in.
Under signatures. With FoF Signature, members can show one build under their posts.
Photos. Stored by Garage (re-encoded as WebP, location data stripped) or through FoF Upload when it's installed. Big phone photos are shrunk in the browser before they're sent.
GDPR: with Flarum's GDPR extension, a member's builds, photos and comments are part of their data export and are removed on erasure.
Permissions to view, add builds, like, comment and moderate. Guests can look by default.
Light on your forum. The pages, windows and styles load only when a Garage page opens. Lists take the same handful of queries however many builds they show; build cards in posts and signatures cost two queries per page at most, and none on pages without them.

Install

composer require ernestdefoe/garage

Then set up your categories and their spec sheets on the extension's settings page.

Update

composer update ernestdefoe/garage
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

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