🆚 Discourse vs. XenForo
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 XenForo is four times more popular than Discourse.
- 🌎 XenForo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Discourse is more popular in Ireland, China, and Japan.
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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.
XenForo is a commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL.
It includes built-in support for question and answer threads, articles, media embedding, Markdown and BBCode editing, a robust add-on ecosystem with thousands of extensions and custom themes, and a full REST API for external integrations.
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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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Internet Forum Software category.
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