Laaru - The Simply Social Media Platform

Laaru is a modern, fast, and feature-rich social networking platform engineered to foster meaningful conversations, expressive media sharing, and creator engagement. Built on the foundation of Laravel on the backend and a high-performance React, Vite, TypeScript, and shadcn/ui frontend, Laaru delivers a fluid, app-like experience across desktop and mobile devices.

Demo & Admin Panel Required Sign-Up /Sign-In

• Live Demo: https://demo-laaru.takfe.com/

 Username: demo | Password: 12345678

Features

✨ Core Features & Highlights

1. 💬 Meaningful Discussions & "Takes"

• Structured Perspectives: Go beyond simple retweets or quotes. With Takes, users can respond to posts with clear, designated stances: Agree, Disagree, Question, or Context.
• Rich Post Formats: Share thoughts with rich text, image galleries, GIFs, links with automatic rich preview cards, and spoiler-protected media with custom alt text.
• Granular Reply Privacy: Creators can restrict replies to everyone, followed profiles, followers, mentioned users, or disable replies entirely.

2. 🎬 Immersive Short-Form "Reels"

• Vertical Video Feed: A dedicated, swipeable vertical video feed built for short-form creators.
• Automated Processing: Integrated server-side video optimization and thumbnail generation powered by FFmpeg.
• Independent Engagement: Complete with likes, nested comments, share integrations, and verified view counters.

3. 📌 Curated Collections & Boards

• Save & Organize: Users can organize their favorite content into public or secret personal boards.
• Visual Previews: Dynamic grid previews for quick browsing of saved media and inspirations.

4. 🛡️ Enterprise-Grade Security & Safety

• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Native TOTP-based 2FA compatible with Google Authenticator and Authy.
• Account Moderation & Appeals: Built-in suspension management where restricted users can submit formal ban appeals directly to administrators.
• Privacy Controls: Support for private profiles, follow requests, user muting, blocking, and a polymorphic content reporting system.
• API Rate Limiting: Dynamic brute-force and spam mitigation configurable right from the admin center.

5. 🚀 Scalable Media Pipeline

• Chunk Upload Engine: Resilient, chunked upload system that prevents upload timeouts or server crashes when handling large video and image files.
• Built-in Image Optimization: Automatic resizing, compression, and conversion to WebP/JPEG formats to save bandwidth and improve page load speeds.
• Cloud Storage Ready: Full compatibility with local disks, Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, and DigitalOcean Spaces.

6. 🌍 Global Reach & Accessibility

• Multi-Language & RTL: Dynamic translation manager with out-of-the-box support for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages like Arabic.
• Progressive Web App (PWA): Installable on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with a native app shell.

7. 👑 Powerful Control Panel (/cp)

• Real-time Analytics: Visual charts tracking post activity, member registrations, and engagement growth over customizable time ranges.
• Comprehensive Management: Manage users, posts, reports, custom badges, pages, and system cache from an intuitive management interface.
• System Customization: Configure mail servers (SMTP with live testing), social logins (Google, X/Twitter), SEO scripts, and branding assets on the fly.

Requirements

📋 Server Requirements

Before starting the installation, please ensure your server meets the following requirements: ✅ PHP: 8.3+✅ Database: MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.3+

✅ Required PHP Extensions: BCMath, Ctype, Fileinfo, JSON, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PDO, Tokenizer, XML, cURL, and GD (required for the built-in Image Optimizer).

Instructions

Documentation

Extract the package and read Documentation/index.html.

Web Installer 

The easiest way to install Uraal 2.0 right from your browser. 1️⃣ Upload Files Upload and extract the MainFiles into public_html (or your document root) using your cPanel/Hosting File Manager. 2️⃣ Access Domain Open your website domain in your browser (e.g., yourdomain.com/install). 3️⃣ Setup Wizard

For changelogs, check the documentation.