Thredded
The best Rails forums engine ever. (by thredded)
Mailboxer
A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application (by mailboxer)
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| Thredded | Mailboxer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 1,545 | 1,641 | |
| 0.0% | 0.1% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | 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.
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.
Mailboxer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mailboxer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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8 Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails
A final anti-pattern I've noticed with new developers is a tendency to use gems instead of creating their own classes and database tables. I encountered an example of this recently where a junior developer was building a messaging feature between users. Their first instinct was to look for gems to implement this feature and they found the mailboxer gem. Mailboxer is a fairly complex gem which will build a full mailbox system (4 database tables with 10+ fields each) with features such as inbox, outbox, read receipts, etc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Thredded and Mailboxer you can also consider the following projects:
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Denshobato - Private messaging between models
OSSN - Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 17 international languages.
Social Shares - Check how many times url was shared in social networks, e.g. share counts