⚡ Internet Forum Software in Hong Kong

Internet forums, also known as message boards or bulletin boards, are online discussion platforms that allow users to start discussions, post replies, and interact in an organized, threaded format.

Hong Kong is an East Asian special administrative region of China with a population of around 7.5 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.5% of websites from Hong Kong.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top Internet forum software in Hong Kong in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Discuz!, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 70.1% share.
It is followed by XenForo with 9.2% and vBulletin with 5.7%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top softwares that is more popular in Hong Kong than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 10 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Hong Kong, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Discuz!
Hefei, China

A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP.

Free18,800 RMB+
2
XenForo
London, United Kingdom

A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL.

$195+
3
vBulletin
El Segundo, California, United States

A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database.

$179+
4
bbPress
San Francisco, California, United States

A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites.

FreeOpen source
5
phpBB
Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

An open-source forum software written in PHP.

FreeOpen source
6
Simple Machines Forum
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Open-source PHP forum software used to host and manage online community discussion boards with a SQL database backend.

FreeOpen source
7
Invision Community
Richmond, Virginia, United States

A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL.

$99+/month
8
Discourse
Dover, Delaware, United States

An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails.

FreeOpen source$20+/month
9
MyBB

An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP.

FreeOpen source
10
NodeBB

An open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via WebSocket, multiple database backends (Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), mobile-friendly responsive design, and a REST API.

FreeOpen source$20+/month

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 18,007 websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.