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Discourse vs MailChimp: What are the differences?
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; MailChimp: Easy email newsletters. MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
Discourse belongs to "Forums" category of the tech stack, while MailChimp can be primarily classified under "Email Marketing".
Some of the features offered by Discourse are:
- Remembers your place
- Log in with … anything
- Paste to share images
On the other hand, MailChimp provides the following key features:
- Facebook Integration
- AutoConnect Templates
- Full Featured API
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Discourse over the competitors, whereas "Smooth setup & ui" was stated as the key factor in picking MailChimp.
Discourse is an open source tool with 28.6K GitHub stars and 6.47K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Discourse's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, MailChimp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1666 company stacks & 669 developers stacks; compared to Discourse, which is listed in 42 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
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 Mailchimp
- Smooth setup & ui259
- Mailing list248
- Robust e-mail creation148
- Integrates with a lot of external services120
- Custom templates109
- Free tier59
- Great api49
- Great UI42
- A/B Testing Subject Lines33
- Broad feature set30
- Subscriber Analytics11
- Great interface. The standard for email marketing9
- Great documentation8
- Mandrill integration8
- Segmentation7
- Best deliverability; helps you be the good guy6
- Facebook Integration5
- Autoresponders5
- Customization3
- RSS-to-email3
- Co-branding3
- Embedded signup forms3
- Automation2
- Great logo1
- Groups1
- Landing pages0
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Cons of Discourse
- Heavy on server3
- Difficult to extend2
- Notifications aren't great on mobile due to being a PWA2
Cons of Mailchimp
- Super expensive2
- Poor API1
- Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent1
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