🆚 NodeBB vs. Simple Machines Forum
- 📈 Simple Machines Forum is much more popular than NodeBB.
- 🌎 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 NodeBB is more popular in India, Norway, and China.
Simple Machines ForumType
About
NodeBB is an open-source forum software built with 
Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via 
WebSockets, multiple database backends (Redis, 
MongoDB, 
PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API.
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
Pricing
(50K pageviews)$20/month
(500K pageviews)$100/month
(2M pageviews)$250/month
(10M pageviews)$750/month
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 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 France in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Internet Forum Software category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Internet Forum Software category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Zulip🗃️ 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 3,522,912 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.