🆚 Discourse vs. phpBB
- 📈 phpBB is three times more popular than Discourse.
- 🌎 phpBB is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Discourse is more popular in Canada, Ireland, and China.
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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.
phpBB is an open-source forum software written in PHP.
It provides a flat topic and post structure with hierarchical sub-forums, user groups and permissions management, multiple attachments per post, full-text search, multilingual support across 50+ languages, and access to over 450 extensions and 280 themes in its official customization database.
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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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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 3,359,906 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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