Discourse Alternatives

Discourse is described as 'Open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy' and is a very popular Forum Software in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Discourse for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, Linux and Windows apps. The best Discourse alternative is Flarum, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Discourse are phpBB, NodeBB, Vanilla Forum and XenForo.

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  1. Circle.so icon
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    Gone are the days of needing to make a whole bunch of different tools work together. With Circle, you can combine the exciting, interactive nature of a community with your content — all in one seamless experience.

    23 Circle.so alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Piazza icon
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    A Q&A platform for students and their instructors.

    11 Piazza alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Piazza is the most popular iPad alternative to Discourse.

    • Piazza is Free and ProprietaryDiscourse is Free Personal and Open Source
  3. Forem icon
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    Forem is open source software for building modern and independent communities for your developers, peers, customers, users. Forem is already powering communities that serve over 10 million monthly unique visitors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Apache Answer icon
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    Q&A platform software for teams at any scale. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
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    Tribe is a white-label platform, empowering the new generation of online communities. It boosts users engagement and growth through widgets and integrations to existing stacks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. FluxBB icon
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    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. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Lithium icon
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    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 you find them, find their passions, and motivate them to participate so you can all make good things happen for...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Vanilla Forums is the top-rated cloud-based community forum software with our easy to use and quick to get started platform. Featuring a sleek user experience, deep integration to your existing tools, flexible customization to fit your branding.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Spirit is a modern Python based forum built on top of Django framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. PlushForums icon
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    Plush is the most polished, user-friendly forum experience ever, featuring real-time discussions, beautiful design, an integrated blog, member directory, private messaging, paid subscriptions and a world-class mobile experience.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. Thredded icon
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    Feature-rich and lightning fast forums. Works standalone or as a Rails engine. Markdown by default, with plugins for code highlighting, KaTeX math, and BBCode. No JavaScript required. Easy deployment on Heroku or with Ansible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Social websites go far beyond Facebook look-alikes and CB has literally hundreds of built-in features and can be extended with extra (free or commercial) add-ons from the CB Team and other parties that will help you realize your very own - tailored to your specific needs -...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Joomla
     
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