🆚 Discourse vs. Invision Community
- 📈 Invision Community is noticeably more popular than Discourse.
- 🌍 Invision Community is more popular in Russia, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, Canada, and Ireland.
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About
Discourse is an open-source community platform built on 
Ruby on Rails.
It supports 
Markdown, BBCode, and 
HTML formatting in posts, infinite scrolling discussions, real-time chat, AI automation for detecting toxic and NSFW content, single sign-on and social login, and the topic summarization features.
Invision Community is a commercial, customizable community software built with 
PHP and MySQL.
It includes discussion forums, a drag-and-drop page builder (introduced in version 5), progressive web app (PWA) support with push notifications, built-in commerce for subscriptions and digital products, reputation and achievement systems, and integrations with Zendesk, 
Salesforce, 
Zapier, and 
PayPal.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.