🆚 Discourse vs. phpBB

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.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥉 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.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Discourse technology profile

• phpBB technology profile