Overview
- Meta released Forum as a limited App Store test on May 22, 2026, and confirmed the app is an experiment rather than a broad rollout.
- Forum imports a user’s existing Facebook Groups after a Facebook login and keeps posts in sync so content posted in the app appears on Facebook and vice versa.
- The app includes an 'Ask' feature that compiles answers from group conversations and links back to the original posts plus an AI assistant to help group moderators manage and moderate communities.
- Forum offers public-facing nicknames for posts while preserving administrator access to real account identities for moderation, creating a trade-off between pseudonymity and admin control.
- Investors and analysts viewed Forum as a potential rival to Reddit, driving roughly a 6% drop in Reddit’s shares, and the launch follows Meta’s recent push to release small, AI‑enabled apps after an earlier standalone Groups experiment in 2014–2017.