🆚 Discuz! vs. vBulletin
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 vBulletin is twice as popular as Discuz!.
- 🌎 vBulletin is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Germany.
- 🌍 Discuz! is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Discuz! is a Chinese Internet forum software written in 
PHP.
vBulletin is a commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database.
It includes built-in support for forums, groups, polls, and blogs, offers a customizable template-based interface, an AJAX-powered chat, an admin control panel with a granular user-group permissions system, and SEO optimization tools.
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- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
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