🆚 Discourse vs. PunBB
- 📈 Discourse is much more popular than PunBB.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 PunBB is more popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
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.
PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open source discussion board.
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Self-hosted, open source
Hosted
Starter (20K pageviews)$20/month
Pro (100K pageviews)$100/month
Business (500K pageviews)$300/month
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #6
Internet Forum Software › Rank #15
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Discourse Internet forum software is 17 times more popular than PunBB.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while PunBB is more popular in Russia.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Russia
Ireland
Australia
China
Netherlands
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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Discourse is more popular than PunBB in all market segments.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Sports
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Technical Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.