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Discourse
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Ruby on Rails, Ember, JavaScript
PostgreSQL with Redis
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Flarum
Free
PHP and JavaScript
MySQL or MariaDB
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Disqus
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Discourse
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Open source
Discourse is powered by Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL and Redis. The code is licensed under GPL and available on GitHub.
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Devs/Community doesn't seem concerned about providing importers from other systems
The community really doesn't seem to care all that much about providing a working import system, even for major competitors like Xenforo. It's pretty much a "pay us (thousands of dollars) to import your community or go use something else" type of culture.
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MightyDaramulum's Experience
– If you choose to opt out of a particular provider of Interest-based advertising it will only apply to that particular business’ data collection and use for interest-based advertising purposes on the web browser you are using. Likewise, if you choose to opt out of all interest-based advertising by the providers listed, it will only apply to the web browser you are using. You will need to follow the same process on every web browser you use on the same and/or different computers or devices. Please note that if there are separate user accounts on a computer within a household you are able to tailor your preferences to each account.
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Has a built-in immune system from trolls, spammers and bad actors
Discourse has a simple user trust system that makes moderating the forum a lot easier. Users gain more permissions as they gain more trust, which limits the amount of damage spammers and trolls can do. Discourse co-founder Jeff Atwood also founded StackExchange, which is the gold standard for gamification/moderation systems so you can also expect Discourse to get better and better at moderation.
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No themes beyond changing colors
Discourse doesn't have a themes ecosystem. All you can do is change the colors.
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ReverentAdgilisDeda's Experience
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Modern & polished UI/UX with lots of great smaller features
The best feature is its design: discourse is designed to aid in the creation of high quality online conversations. Flat discussions with well implemented quoting systems, expandable/collapsible replies, infinite scroll, clean UI and many more features come together to form a highly polished forum experience that makes legacy forums show their age.
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Hosted and self-hosted solutions
You can host it yourself in a $5 cloud server or on any Linux server you already have. And if you don't want to deal with this, you can use the hosting platform from the development team.
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Helpful community
Discourse has a comprehensive forum culture support hub at meta.discourse.org.
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Flarum
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Open source
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MySQL or MariaDB
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Lots of features
The developers do a great job adding new bells and whistles.
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Disqus
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Can be easily integrated in any website via iframes
Can be easily included into any website using the iframe form.
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Slow performance
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Imelda Garcia's Experience
Injects weird ads and content into the page. Really slow to load.
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Community building features
Disqus includes community features such as Top Commenters, Top Discussions and the ability to form networks around own commenters.
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Sponsored comments
Disqus puts ads in their embeds.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAieyCwGEl-X7eSuHW2SMCA
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Community features
Community features such as Top Commenters, Top Discussions and the ability to form networks around your own commenters.
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Closed-source
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Not connected with the Evil Facebook ecosystem
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Cannot be styled
Disqus uses !important flags in its CSS to prevent you from being able to customize its style at all.
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Works with static sites
Disqus can be used with a static site so it's possible to keep the benefits of a static blog and still have dynamic comments.
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Wide adoption
There's a large pre-existing user community. Many people already know how to use this comment system.
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Clean, minimalist interface & design
The Disqus design is minimalist and is broken down into three tabs - discussion, community and My Disqus. The discussion interface provides the usual elements, but with unique features like visual indicators of live actions, such as new replies and even when another user is typing. It's possible to sort discussion by new, old and best. The community tab is designed to help connect commenters together to form a network that keeps them coming back. It is also a great source of traffic from external sites. My Disqus helps users quickly keep track of activities in their network as well as manage notifications.
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Seamless design
Seamless design that doesn't require users to leave the page to access features such as profiles.
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Light-weight
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Privacy-focused
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