The Best 45 Discourse Alternatives

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    phpBB

    Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PHP

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    Get Satisfaction

    User or customer feedback system with voting facility about proposals done by users. Similar function as the UserVoice system.

    Commercial Web

  • Simple Machines Forum icon

    Simple Machines Forum

    Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • MyBB icon

    MyBB

    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

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    vBulletin

    vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises. It is written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone PHP

  • Vanilla icon

    Vanilla

    Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.

    Freemium Web Self-Hosted

  • FluxBB icon

    FluxBB

    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • bbPress icon

    bbPress

    bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Its focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed.

    Free Open Source Web

  • XenForo icon

    XenForo

    A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

    Commercial Windows Linux Web

  • IP.Board icon

    IP.Board

    Invision Power Board (abbreviated IPB, IP.Board or IP Board) is an Internet forum software produced by Invision Power Services, Inc.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • NodeBB icon

    NodeBB

    NodeBB is an open source forum software that's free and easy to use. A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Cloudron MongoDB Redis

  • WoltLab Suite icon

    WoltLab Suite

    WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted PHP MySQL Community Edition

  • PunBB icon

    PunBB

    PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ning icon

    Ning

    Ning is the social platform for the worlds interests and passions online. Millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their...

    Commercial Web

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    PlushForums

    Plush is the most polished, user-friendly forum experience ever, featuring real-time discussions, beautiful design, an integrated blog, member directory...

    Commercial Web

  • Kialo icon

    Kialo

    Kialo is an easy to use, yet powerful tool to engage in thoughtful discussion, understand different points of view, and help with collaborative decision-making.

    Free Web

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    Lithium

    Lithium engages your social customers with super-fun (okay, habit-forming) community experiences. And we do it for all your social customers—online and mobile. We help...

    Commercial Web