Discourse

Category - Message Boards

Discourse is an open source internet forum and mailing list management software application


We have discovered  7,070 live websites   that are using Discourse.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using Discourse7,070 websites
Most popular in the country United States
Market position in Message Boards#10
Market share in Message Boards3.02%
Most popular version3.3

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Discourse usage. (See Discourse Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Discourse+182
Websites that dropped Discourse-110
Websites that changed version of Discourse2,811

Discourse usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of Discourse technology and the relative popularity of websites

Market Share

Discourse market share within the Message Boards category



Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Discourse

Top websites that use Discourse
DomainCountryRankContacts
www.businessinsider.com United States572
www.algolia.com United States2,596
www.academia.edu United States2,759
www.vogue.com United States3,102
plone.org United States5,106
www.wbur.org United States5,467
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Always Used together


Ruby on Rails: Total 526,153 domains found using Ruby on Rails
Category - Web Application Frameworks. 11,612,768 domains found using Web Application Frameworks


Alternative Technologies


bbPress: Total 47,725 domains found using bbPress
phpBB: Total 38,860 domains found using phpBB
Substack: Total 29,127 domains found using Substack
BuddyPress: Total 26,472 domains found using BuddyPress
Discuz! X: Total 16,695 domains found using Discuz! X
XenForo: Total 11,045 domains found using XenForo
vBulletin: Total 9,677 domains found using vBulletin
IPB: Total 8,664 domains found using IPB
SMF: Total 8,554 domains found using SMF
Asgaros Forum: Total 5,622 domains found using Asgaros Forum





Major Versions

  • 1.xx (17 subversions, 69 domains)
  • 2.xx (64 subversions, 1,429 domains)
  • 3.xx (16 subversions, 3,987 domains)