⚡ 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 0.4% of websites from Hong Kong.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 71.8% share.
It is followed by XenForo with 10.3% and phpBB with 5.1%.

Discuz! 71.8%
XenForo 10.3%
phpBB 5.1%
bbPress 3.8%
Simple Machines Forum 2.6%
vBulletin 1.3%
Invision Community 1.3%
MyBB 1.3%
NodeBB 1.3%
Flarum 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Discuz! ^(-7)
5. Simple Machines Forum ^(-2)
8. MyBB ^(-2)
9. NodeBB ^(-5)
10. Flarum ^(-3)

✨ 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.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 CNY+	71.8%
2	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	10.3%
3	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	5.1%
4	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	3.8%
5	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	2.6%
6	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	1.3%
7	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	1.3%
8	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.3%
9	NodeBB Toronto, Ontario, Canada An open-source forum software built with Node.js that supports real-time streaming discussions, instant notifications via WebSockets, multiple database backends such as Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, and a REST API. FreeOpen source$20+/month	1.3%
10	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	1.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Internet Forum Software in other countries

🗃️ 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 18,729 websites from Hong Kong.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on August 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.