Discourse VS Flarum

Compare Discourse vs Flarum and see what are their differences.

Discourse

A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. (by discourse)

Flarum

Simple forum software for building great communities. (by flarum)
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Discourse Flarum
197 59
40,224 14,821
1.5% 1.1%
10.0 2.8
about 2 hours ago 4 days ago
Ruby PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Discourse

Posts with mentions or reviews of Discourse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

Flarum

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flarum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Discourse and Flarum you can also consider the following projects:

Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.

nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web

MyBB - MyBB is a free and open source forum software.

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.

FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.

Talkyard - A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

BuddyPress - BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.

Orange Forum - A light-weight forum

Simple Machines Forum - Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!