🆚 Discourse vs. NodeBB
- 📈 Discourse is much more popular than NodeBB.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 NodeBB is more popular in India.
Type
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.
NodeBB is an open-source forum software built with 
Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via 
WebSockets, multiple database backends (Redis, 
MongoDB, 
PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API.
Headquarters
Pricing
(50K pageviews)$20/month
(500K pageviews)$100/month
(2M pageviews)$250/month
(10M pageviews)$750/month
Categories
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.
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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Zulip🗃️ 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 3,522,912 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.