🆚 PunBB vs. Simple Machines Forum
- 📈 Simple Machines Forum is much more popular than PunBB.
- 🌍 Simple Machines Forum is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ PunBB is particularly popular in Russia.
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PunBB is a fast and lightweight 
PHP-based open-source discussion board.
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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🗃️ 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.