🆚 Discourse vs. Simple Machines Forum
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Discourse is slightly more popular than Simple Machines Forum.
- 🌎 Discourse is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in Russia, the Netherlands, and Finland.
Simple Machines ForumType
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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.
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is open-source 
PHP forum software used to host and manage online community discussion boards with a SQL database backend.
It provides an advanced permission and user management system, support for themes and extensions, email notifications, attachment handling, topic and post tracking, moderation tools, over 45 interface languages, and compatibility with MySQL, 
PostgreSQL, and 
SQLite databases.
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- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Thailand in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
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