Discourse

Category - Message Boards

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



We have discovered  7,181 live websites   that are using Discourse.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using Discourse7,181 websites
Most popular in the country United States
Market position in Message Boards#10
Market share in Message Boards2.94%
Most popular version3.2

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Discourse usage. (See Discourse Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Discourse+216
Websites that dropped Discourse-162
Websites that changed version of Discourse2,757

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.algolia.com United States2,596
www.academia.edu United States2,759
www.columbia.edu United States3,599
plone.org United States5,106
marketplace.digitalocean.com United States5,901
community.ovh.com France6,096
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Alternative Technologies


bbPress: Total 50,459 domains found using bbPress
phpBB: Total 39,801 domains found using phpBB
BuddyPress: Total 29,246 domains found using BuddyPress
Substack: Total 28,250 domains found using Substack
Discuz! X: Total 18,154 domains found using Discuz! X
XenForo: Total 11,451 domains found using XenForo
vBulletin: Total 10,147 domains found using vBulletin
IPB: Total 8,978 domains found using IPB
SMF: Total 8,926 domains found using SMF
Asgaros Forum: Total 5,842 domains found using Asgaros Forum





Major Versions

  • 1.xx (18 subversions, 74 domains)
  • 2.xx (64 subversions, 1,532 domains)
  • 3.xx (15 subversions, 4,033 domains)