forum-software
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You Don't Own the Community You Built
Skool, Circle, Discourse, Gainsight, Salesforce and Gravyty are all selling the same thing - a place for your people to gather. The difference is who keeps the keys.
Nobody Wants to Build on Rented Land Anymore
Creators, associations and alumni offices are all fleeing the social feed to own their audiences. A cluster of platforms - from Circle to Discourse - is racing to sell them the escape hatch.
Social Strata (Crowdstack)
For more than two decades, a husband-and-wife team in Charleston has quietly powered online communities for brands that outgrew Facebook Groups - and never took a dime of venture money.
Website Toolbox
Effortlessly build a beautiful community forum with zero coding, seamless embedding, instant setup, and exceptional support.
XenForo
The forum software built by the people who walked out of vBulletin - and why, in an age of algorithmic feeds, businesses still pay for a place to talk.
NodeBB Bet on the Open Web While Its Rivals Got Bought
While AnswerHub was swallowed by a holding company and the alumni-community market consolidated, this Toronto-built open-source forum wired itself straight into the fediverse. NodeBB's wager is that the open web outlasts the walled garden.
NodeBB
The Toronto team behind NodeBB spent a decade rebuilding the humble internet forum for the real-time web. Now they are wiring it into the fediverse.
vBulletin
The World's Leading Community Software - vBulletin has been powering online forums for more than two decades, and it is still shipping.
Invision Community
For more than twenty years, a small team has quietly built one of the web's most enduring community platforms - the software behind forums you have almost certainly posted in without knowing its name.
Discourse
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.