🆚 Discuz! vs. Simple Machines Forum
- 📈 Simple Machines Forum is noticeably more popular than Discuz!.
- 🌎 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Discuz!
Simple Machines ForumType
Internet forum software
Internet forum software
About
Discuz! is a Chinese internet forum software written in 
PHP.
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.
Headquarters
Hefei, China
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️
Enterprise Edition 18,800+ CNY
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Internet Forum Software › Rank #9
Internet Forum Software › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Simple Machines Forum technology is 1.3 times more popular than Discuz!.
Total websites
Market share
Internet Forum Software
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany, while Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
China
United States
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Netherlands
Thailand
Taiwan
France
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Simple Machines Forum is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, recreation and hobbies, and games, while Discuz! is more commonly used on technical, business forums, business, and entertainment sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Technical/Business Forums
Recreation/Hobbies
Business
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Portal Sites
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,827,339 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.