⚡ Internet Forum Software in Malaysia

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.

Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.3% of websites from Malaysia.

Statistics based on 10K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Discuz! with a share of 28.1%, followed by XenForo with 18.8% and bbPress with 18.8%.

Discuz! 28.1%
XenForo 18.8%
bbPress 18.8%
Discourse 9.4%
phpBB 6.3%
vBulletin 6.3%
Invision Community 6.3%
Simple Machines Forum 3.1%
MyBB 3.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Discuz! ^(-7)
4. Discourse ^(-2)
9. MyBB ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 9 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Malaysia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	28.1%
2	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	18.8%
3	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	18.8%
4	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	9.4%
5	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	6.3%
6	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	6.3%
7	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	6.3%
8	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	3.1%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	3.1%

👉 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 10,317 websites from Malaysia.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from Malaysia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.