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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.

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Pros of Discourse

Pros of PeerBoard

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Open source
19
Fast
13
Email digests
9
Better than a stereotypical forum
8
Perfect for communities of any size
7
It's perfect to build real communities
7
Made by same folks from stackoverflow
7
Built with Ember.js
6
Great customer support
3
Made by consolidated team with a working business
3
Translated into a lot of Languages
3
Configurations
2
Easy flag resolution

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Cons of Discourse

Cons of PeerBoard

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Heavy on server
2
Difficult to extend
2
Notifications aren't great on mobile due to being a PWA

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What is Discourse?

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?

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!

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What are some alternatives to Discourse and PeerBoard?

Disqus

Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next.

Flarum

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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