⚡ Internet Forum Software in the Netherlands

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.

The Netherlands is a Western European country with a population of over 17.8 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 0.4% of websites from the Netherlands.

Statistics based on 96K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is bbPress with a share of 28%, followed by phpBB with 21.4% and XenForo with 17.6%.

bbPress 28%
phpBB 21.4%
XenForo 17.6%
vBulletin 11.1%
Invision Community 7.2%
Simple Machines Forum 7%
Discourse 2.4%
MyBB 1.4%
Flarum 1.2%
Verint Community 0.7%
Khoros Communities 0.7%
WoltLab Suite 0.5%
Discuz! 0.5%
Vanilla 0.2%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. phpBB ^(-1)
4. vBulletin ^(-1)
6. Simple Machines Forum ^(-1)
8. MyBB ^(-2)
9. Flarum ^(-4)
10. Verint Community ^(-7)
11. Khoros Communities ^(-1)
14. Vanilla ^(-2)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 14 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from the Netherlands, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	28%
2	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	21.4%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	17.6%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	11.1%
5	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	7.2%
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%
7	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	2.4%
8	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	1.4%
9	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	1.2%
10	Verint Community Melville, New York, United States A community platform that provides an integrated suite of applications such as forums, blogs, articles, wikis, and media galleries. $50,000+/year	0.7%
11	Khoros Communities Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise-grade community management platform that enables organizations to build, manage, and scale branded online communities. $100,000+/year	0.7%
12	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.5%
13	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.5%
14	Vanilla Arlington, Virginia, United States An enterprise online community platform for B2B and B2C brands. $24,000+/year	0.2%

👉 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 96,926 websites from the Netherlands.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from the Netherlands.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.