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Discourse vs PeerBoard: What are the differences?
What is Discourse? The 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. Replies are attached to the bottom and top of each post, so you can optionally expand the context of the conversation – without breaking your flow.
What is PeerBoard? *Embed a community into any website *. It is a modern community platform designed to live as an organic part of your existing website or product. Now you can easily create an engaged discussion space wherever your users already are - no more siloed external platforms or legacy forums!.
Discourse and PeerBoard can be primarily classified as "Forums" tools.
Some of the features offered by Discourse are:
- Remembers your place
- Log in with … anything
- Paste to share images
On the other hand, PeerBoard provides the following key features:
- Modern Forum Software
- Complete White Label
- WordPress Forum Plugin
Discourse is an open source tool with 31.2K GitHub stars and 6.91K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Discourse's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Discourse
- Open source28
- Fast19
- Email digests13
- Better than a stereotypical forum9
- Perfect for communities of any size8
- It's perfect to build real communities7
- Made by same folks from stackoverflow7
- Built with Ember.js7
- Great customer support6
- Made by consolidated team with a working business3
- Translated into a lot of Languages3
- Configurations3
- Easy flag resolution2
Pros of PeerBoard
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Cons of Discourse
- Heavy on server3
- Difficult to extend2
- Notifications aren't great on mobile due to being a PWA2
