⚡ Internet Forum Software in Russia

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.

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our statistics, Internet forum software is used on 1% of websites from Russia.

Statistics based on 91K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is phpBB with a share of 26.7%, followed by Invision Community with 21.3% and XenForo with 17.1%.

phpBB 26.7%
Invision Community 21.3%
XenForo 17.1%
vBulletin 13.3%
bbPress 12.1%
Simple Machines Forum 4.9%
PunBB 2.3%
Discourse 0.7%
MyBB 0.6%
Flarum 0.4%
WoltLab Suite 0.3%
Discuz! 0.1%
NodeBB 0.1%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. phpBB ^(-2)
2. Invision Community ^(-2)
4. vBulletin ^(-1)
6. Simple Machines Forum ^(-1)
7. PunBB ^(-8)
9. MyBB ^(-1)
10. Flarum ^(-3)
13. NodeBB ^(-1)

✨ Best Internet Forum Software

Below is a more detailed list of 13 Internet forum software solutions used on sites from Russia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	phpBB Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom An open-source forum software written in PHP. FreeOpen source	26.7%
2	Invision Community Richmond, Virginia, United States A commercial, customizable community software built with PHP and MySQL. $99+/month	21.3%
3	XenForo London, United Kingdom A commercial Internet forum software based on PHP and MySQL. $195+	17.1%
4	vBulletin El Segundo, California, United States A commercial forum software platform written in PHP that uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. $179+	13.3%
5	bbPress San Francisco, California, United States A free plugin that adds forum functionality to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source	12.1%
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	4.9%
7	PunBB A fast and lightweight PHP-based open source discussion board. FreeOpen source	2.3%
8	Discourse Dover, Delaware, United States An open-source community platform built on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source$20+/month	0.7%
9	MyBB An open-source, community developed bulletin board software built with PHP. FreeOpen source	0.6%
10	Flarum Arnhem, Netherlands An open-source discussion platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source€50+/month	0.4%
11	WoltLab Suite Potsdam, Germany A commercial software package designed for creating and managing online communities. €129.99+	0.3%
12	Discuz! Hefei, China A Chinese Internet forum software written in PHP. Free18,800 RMB+	0.1%
13	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	0.1%

👉 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 91,558 websites from Russia.
We currently track the presence of 20 Internet forum software solutions across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on April 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.