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SocialSync syncs conversations happening on twitter and facebook to those left on a blog post. The synced comments behave like normal comments, and will also post replies, etc back to Facebook and Twitter. This solves a big problem of bringing existing discussions to the post and is not available on competing products. See More
Livefyre doesn't do anything to prevent from customizing the css styles of the comments. It's possible to have the embedded comments match the look and feel of any site. The LiveFyre interface allows: Sorting comments in ascending or descending order Tagging an individual user in a comment Following the conversation to receive updates Sharing individual comments Nesting replies See More
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. See More
NodeBB bundles real-time updates (new posts/topics, chat messages), the ability to see "who's browsing this topic", recent/popular/unread topics, tags, post sorting, social sharing, notification system, inbound email support/reply-by-email, mobile responsiveness, favourites, bookmarks, spam control, and reputation/karma. See More
NodeBB’s gamification plugins extend user engagement by motivating users to participate and complete tasks by giving them incentives like achievements, badges, points and virtual currency. NodeBB's gamification and reputation system is more than just badges, the reputation engine is used to promote good content, grant member abilities and achieve rank among leaderboards. NodeBB has several gamifications plugins that gives forum users an RPG like experience: Advanced Dungeon and Rabbits, Minecraft, PVP RPG (Battle, attack & steal points from other users). See More
NodeBBs plugins are built to support features like: Rich media embedding (Youtube/Vimeo), advertising integration (Google AdSense, DoubleClick, etc), third-party single-sign-on, emoji, mobile phone notifications, sound packs, CDN support, rich-text formatting/colours, static pages, galleries, and much much more. See More
In addition to the hosting, NodeBB also provides support ticket access, and automatic deployment of security updates when necessary. NodeBB's servers are located in New York, although instances can be manually provisioned in all of the other regions our hosting provider supports: San Francisco (west coast customers) London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt (European customers) Singapore (China, south Asia, etc) See More
Vanilla Porter can import posts (comments), threads (discussions), users, categories, roles and passwords (hashed) from most other forum software: bbPress, Drupal, MyBB, NoteBB, phpBB, PunBB, SimpleMachines 1&2, Toast, UserVoice, vBulletin, Xenforo, YAF.NET and others. Some importers support avatars, attachments, signatures, and PMs. A few support tags and user notes. Imports aren't flawless, but they do most of the work. See More
Loomio development is led by a group structured as a worker-owned cooperative company, which is part of Enspiral, a mutual aid network of other social enterprises. As a result, both the Loomio code and the cooperative's hosted instance at Loomio.org are being actively maintained and developed, with new features being planned and deployed regularly. See More
This is not software that the user can be in control of, it's Service-as-a-Software-Substitute, that locks users into a single instance of the software running on the company's servers. No source code is available at all, let alone under a free code license that would allow users to set up and migrate their data to their own instance if they became unhappy with the company's service. See More
Whilst sites under the Stack Exchange banner are focussed on specific topics, there are a wide variety of such sites. As such Stack Exchange could be described as being open to questions on any subject matter, but has the advantage that within its sub-sites, questions are targeted to the specific users/audiences of those sites. See More
Users are scored based on their contributions, with the context of those contributions also being scored (i.e. answering a question tagged as being about XML increases that user's XML score). This results in allowing the questioner to gauge a rough idea of the answerer's relative knowledge within a domain when considering their answers vs contradictory answers from other users. See More
The search engine is at the very center of Mailpile. It was specifically designed to be able to handle large amount of e-mails without grinding the machine to a halt. Additionally, the search includes a tagging feature that can automatically organize new mail by set rules or bayesian classifiers. See More