When comparing Muut vs XenForo, the Slant community recommends XenForo for most people. In the question“What are the best web forum software packages?” XenForo is ranked 7th while Muut is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose XenForo is:
Good stability and functionality.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast
Pro Responsive
Pro Uncluttered
Pro Stable
Good stability and functionality.
Pro Fast
Works really fast.
Pro Lots of styles and extensions avaible
Pro Extensible
XenForo is built to be the most extensible and flexible community software ever.
Pro Stable, well written, developed by the guys who once made VBulletin 3.x the best commercial forum software at the time
Price is only $140, one of the "cons" claims it runs up to $610 if you by all t he bells & whistles, but scarcely anyone pays more than $140
Cons
Con No post edit history
Posts can be edited for 2.7 minutes. After that, they remain fixed forever. This makes it impossible for the original post to be updated to reflect the current consensus, the latest version of a software being discussed etc.
Con No Self-hosted option
Muut uses a system similar to Disqus where your forum, comments etc. reside on their servers.
Con Expensive
140$ for simple use, price can reach 610$ for complete system and service.
Con Closed source
Con Unique SQL system
Only MySQL system.