🆚 Invision Community vs. Simple Machines Forum
- 📈 Invision Community is twice as popular as Simple Machines Forum.
- 🌎 Invision Community is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in Spain, Turkey, and Finland.
Simple Machines ForumType
About
Invision Community is a commercial, customizable community software built with 
PHP and MySQL.
It includes discussion forums, a drag-and-drop page builder (introduced in version 5), progressive web app (PWA) support with push notifications, built-in commerce for subscriptions and digital products, reputation and achievement systems, and integrations with Zendesk, 
Salesforce, 
Zapier, and 
PayPal.
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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Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy 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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🗃️ 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 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.