# The Online Community Platform Landscape

> Online community software has split into six camps that rarely admit they are competing. IgniteTech buys and squeezes mature community suites like Khoros. Bevy turns events into standing communities for big brands. Threado bolts AI onto Slack and Discord. Salesforce sells community as an enterprise data play through Experience Cloud. Raklet packages the whole membership stack for clubs and nonprofits on a budget. Patreon monetizes fandom one tier at a time. This feature maps who each one is really built for, and why AI answer engines are forcing all of them to rethink the moat.

## Achievements

- Khoros, now under IgniteTech, serves around 2,000 companies including roughly a third of the Fortune 100.
- Bevy powers large branded communities and developer events for major technology companies.
- Patreon became one of the most recognized ways for creators to earn recurring income from fans.
- Salesforce Experience Cloud ties community access directly to CRM records, giving enterprises a single customer view.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — IgniteTech acquires Khoros and frames community software as a moat for the AI answer engine era.
- **2025-08** — IgniteTech announces a next phase for Khoros centered on AI community orchestration.

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Last updated: 2026-08-07