Thredded vs Loomio

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Thredded		Loomio
	Project
2	Mentions	16
1,545	Stars	2,300
0.0%	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	9.9
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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.

Thredded

Posts with mentions or reviews of Thredded. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-04.

Thredded Forums – An engine for Ruby on Rails
1 project | /r/hackernews | 5 Mar 2022
Thredded Forums, feature-rich and simple. An engine for Ruby on Rails
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2022

Loomio

Posts with mentions or reviews of Loomio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.

Debate Land Beta 0.2 is out!
6 projects | /r/Debate | 3 Jun 2023

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.
If I were to start a cooperative what would be good business software to use, are there any specifically designed for cooperatives?
1 project | /r/cooperatives | 13 Mar 2023
Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2023

Loomio [https://www.loomio.com/] would be a great forum, cooperative decision making tool for running such a group. The next step would be building out any tools that are not covered by loomio and the likes.
75% Of Us Think Software Developers Would Do Better Work in Small Partnerships
1 project | /r/programming | 15 Dec 2022

I understand that reaction. If you look into it, you'll see that they collaboratively decide how to use group resources with consensus-based decision making, and tools like Loomio.
Looking for a ranking system
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 23 Nov 2022

Loomio does have a few other options (including score voting and ranked choice)
Turning a saas company into a nonprofit so to speak.
1 project | /r/nonprofit | 20 Nov 2022

I would say that without the legal aspects, any transparency will still be missing a way to be accountable. But you can take a look at coop models. Also check out https://www.loomio.com/, https://cobudget.com/ and the coops that build it https://www.loomio.coop/, https://www.enspiral.com/.
Activists. Where do you go when you want to collaborate with other activists? Not necessarily in the same group as you.
1 project | /r/activism | 17 Nov 2022
MPs warned of ordeals ahead amid disinformation and public mistrust
1 project | /r/newzealand | 15 Nov 2022
Loomio - Make decisions together online
1 project | /r/newzealand | 14 Nov 2022
Loomio is an interesting platform for a worker run cooperative.
1 project | /r/EmmaGoldman | 22 Sep 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Thredded and Loomio you can also consider the following projects:

Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

Mailboxer - A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application

Hubzilla

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

HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.

diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

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.

Social Shares - Check how many times url was shared in social networks, e.g. share counts

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