Top 15 Discourse Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Discourse is an opensource discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.

Self-hosted Discourse software is free, hosting service is paid.

1. Spirit-Project

Spirit-Project Spirit is a modern discussion platform.NotificationsReceive an automatic notification everytime someone mentions your @name, quotes you or answers to your conversation.Private ConversationsCreate your own private conversations and invite as many users as you want to it.BookmarksSpirit automatically registers which was the last comment you read on a conversation.ArchiveSpirit saves......

2. PlushForums

PlushForums 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. All with absolutely no technical knowledge required and no plugins to install.......

3. FUDforum

FUDforum FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) is a free and open source web discussion forum. FUDforum combines an extensive feature set while maintaining the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast. The forum includes i18n and templating support allowing for a complete customization of its output as well as a......

4. AsmBB

AsmBB AsmBB is high performance web forum software, written entirely in assembly language. It is very lightweight, but provides decent set of features and ultimate performance.......

5. IceBB

IceBB IceBB is a powerful, fast, free, and open-source forum solution powered by the free PHP and MySQL. IceBB scales well, no matter how many users or posts, due to its clean and efficient code. It can also be fully customized to your needs with full skin and language support. A......

6. Hidden & Dangerous (Series)

Hidden & Dangerous (Series) Hidden & Dangerous is about four-man squad of soldiers of the SAS during World War 2. It is a 3rd person/1st person, tactical action game. The mix of both tactical action and strategy.......

7. Hoop.la

Hoop.la Hoop.la is a hosted online community service that includes elegantly integrated group blog, forums, chat events and chat rooms, photo/video/audio file sharing, group calendar, social sharing tools, rich member profiles, premium memberships, and a great mobile experience. Everything you need to launch a modern community---just add people! The free version......

8. BusinessSmack.com

BusinessSmack.com A community for Entrepreneurs and Business minded people, all right to the point. Network, share ideas, advertise, and get the Right Information that will make your next Business Project a Successful one. BusinessSmack, What will you create?......

9. South Park Avatar Creator

South Park Avatar Creator Create your own South Park alter-ego or make one of your family and friends! When you're done, save it to your computer and use it on your website or print it out! You can also create a character to use as your avatar on the South Park Studios forum or......

10. Kunena

Kunena Kunena is the ideal forum extension for Joomla. It's free, fully integrated, and no bridges or hacks are required.Want to know more about the Kunena Project? See how the open source philosophy drives our community, follow our development on GitHub, and how you can participate to make Kunena even better.......

11. Yahoo! Groups

Yahoo! Groups Yahoo! Groups is one of the world’s largest collections of online discussion boards. The term Groups refers to Internet communication which is a hybrid between an electronic mailing list and a threaded Internet forum, in other words, Group messages can be read and posted by e-mail or on the Group's......

12. iExchange

iExchange iExchangeFree Information Exchange Solution. Set Blog, Forums, Group and Ticket information exchange for one.iExchange is a commercial free, fast, safe and heavy internet and intranet information exchange solution. Set Blog, Forums, Group and Ticket information exchange for one. WAN or LAN self-hosted server, Web-admin management access, and maintenance-free design. No......

13. Realtidbits

Realtidbits Powering the Realtime Social Layer for Entertainment, Local Media and High Traffic Blogs. Realtidbits was acquired by Livefyre.com.......

14. Flarum

Flarum Flarum is free, open-source forum software with a focus on simplicity. You can use Flarum to easily set up a discussion forum for your website. Flarum is developed openly on GitHub.It is the combined successor of esoTalk and FluxBB. It aims to be:Fast and simple. No clutter, no bloat, no......

15. DuckDuckGo Community Platform

DuckDuckGo Community Platform An open source forum software made by DuckDuckGo that is being used at https://duck.co/forum .......