The Best 45 Discourse Alternatives

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    Spirit-Project

    Spirit is a modern discussion platform. Notifications Receive an automatic notification everytime someone mentions your @name, quotes you or answers to your...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • ZeroTalk icon

    ZeroTalk

    forum(s) built with javascript ( with coffeescript ) and alternativein.com/software/json for the database distributed by the network http://alternativein .

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Mac Self-Hosted

    Decentralized Distributed
  • YaBB icon

    YaBB

    YaBB is a free Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

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    MUUT

    It's basically a closed source self hosted new and re-thinked forum solution, which can also work as commenting system.

    Freemium Web

  • Flazy icon

    Flazy

    A web application not bloated with superfluous features or complicated configuration settings. Flazy is a simple yet powerful tool — everything you need to use in a...

    Free Self-Hosted

  • C-BOARD icon

    C-BOARD

    Discussion Board for project collaboration with WBS-design, CFLX and advanced team mate profiles. Open Source, available for free, installed/ deployed within a few...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • VoxPopuli icon

    VoxPopuli

    With VoxPopuli widget you can hear your customers and find new ideas for your business, products and services. Your users want to be heard - so let them say! ...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Rootbuzz icon

    Rootbuzz

    Rootbuzz is a hosted Q&A platform (ie your own quora/stackoverflow). It helps you grow and strengthen your community & boost your SEO traffic!

    Commercial Web

  • LayerBB icon

    LayerBB

    LayerBB is a small yet feature rich community software which enables you to quickly and easily start your own community. It offers great flexibility and easily...

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted

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    OCFHollaines

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

    Free Open Source Web

  • GZ Forum Scripts icon

    GZ Forum Scripts

    Gz Forum Scripts is an open source online forum software. It provides an easy way to manage posts, topic, replies, categories and more. GZ Forum Scripts is developed to...

    Commercial Web

  • PunBB.NET icon

    PunBB.NET

    PunBB.NET is a forum written using the ASP.NET technology. This forum is simple, fast and lightweight. The forum's core itself is only a basis, which allows...

    Free Open Source Windows Self-Hosted

  • PHP Forum Script icon

    PHP Forum Script

    PHP Forum Script by PHPJabbers is the perfect online forum software for all kinds of websites! It contains all must-have features of a modern, user-friendly forum...

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Kunena icon

    Kunena

    Kunena is the ideal forum extension for Joomla. It's free, fully integrated, and no bridges or hacks are required. Want to know more about the Kunena Project? See...

    Free Self-Hosted Joomla

  • FlaskBB icon

    FlaskBB

    FlaskBB is forum software written in Python using the micro framework Flask. You can easily create new topics, posts and send other users private messages. It also...

    Free Self-Hosted Python Flask

  • YaBB SE icon

    YaBB SE

    yabb se is a php/mysql port of the popular forum software yabb (yet another bulletin board). incorporating the same intuitive user...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web MySQL Community Edition