What is Discourse and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Discourse
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. ...
XenForo
It is a commercial Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language. ...
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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- Ease of use141
- Free116
- Great ui62
- Sign-up not required45
- Wordpress integration40
- Replies26
- Up votes18
- Threaded discussion8
- Easy ghost integration6
- Tumblr Integration4
- Ads4
- Poor support1
- Bugs with migration tool1
related Disqus posts
I created a Squarespace website with multiple blog pages. I discovered that the native Squarespace commenting tool is not currently capable of letting people subscribe to my blog pages if they are using Google Chrome or Safari! I then discovered that Disqus email verification doesn't work with Yahoo Mail. I also hate that there's no way to turn off that email verification (which I don't need since I moderate all comments anyway). So I want to use a different commenting system. I've read some good things about Commento. Three questions: (1) will it work on a Squarespace site? (I'll pay a developer to integrate it for me) (2) Does it have its own issues/elements that don't work smoothly, similar to the other two? (3) Is there another plugin I should be considering for my Squarespace site?
- Elegant7
- Open source6
- Fast3
- UX2
- Simple2
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Discord
- Unlimited Users49
- Unlimited Channels46
- Easy to use42
- Fast and easy set-ups and connections40
- Voice Chat39
- Clean UI35
- Mobile Friendly33
- Free31
- Android App23
- Mention system21
- Customizable notifications on per channel basis21
- Customizable ranks/permissions20
- IOS app17
- Vast Webhook Support16
- Good code embedding16
- Easy context switching between work and home12
- Dark mode12
- Easy to develop for11
- Great Customer Support11
- Roles10
- Great Communities9
- Bot control8
- Video Call Conference8
- Video call meeting8
- Great browser experience8
- Very Resource Friendly8
- Easy Server Setup and joining system8
- Able to hold 99 people in one call8
- Sharing screen layer7
- Robust7
- Shares screen with other member7
- Cool6
- Easy to code bots for6
- Easy5
- Lower bandwidth requirements than competitors5
- Better than Zoom4
- Everyone look at my con (it's a pro disguised as a con)3
- Noice3
- Not got wierd emojis like everything made by google1
- Not as many integrations as Slack9
- For gamers8
- Limited file size4
- Sends data to US Gov2
- For everyone2
- Discord is great, what are you talking about?2
- Are u mad u ever heard of DMs???1
- Suspected Pedophiles in few servers1
- Unsupportive Support1
- What i mean by this is someone said u cant chat lol1
- Undescriptive in global ban reasons1
- Zoom is WAY better bc you can't even chat on Discord0
related Discord posts
Shortly after I joined Algolia as a developer advocate, I knew I wanted to establish a place for the community to congregate and share their projects, questions and advice. There are a ton of platforms out there that can be used to host communities, and they tend to fall into two categories - real-time sync (like chat) and async (like forums). Because the community was already large, I felt that a chat platform like Discord or Gitter might be overwhelming and opted for a forum-like solution instead (which would also create content that's searchable from Google).
I looked at paid, closed-source options like AnswerHub and ForumBee and old-school solutions like phpBB and vBulletin, but none seemed to offer the power, flexibility and developer-friendliness of Discourse. Discourse is open source, written in Rails with Ember.js on the front-end. That made me confident I could modify it to meet our exact needs. Discourse's own forum is very active which made me confident I could get help if I needed it.
It took about a month to get Discourse up-and-running and make authentication tied to algolia.com via the SSO plugin. Adding additional plugins for moderation or look-and-feel customization was fairly straightforward, and I even created a plugin to make the forum content searchable with Algolia. To stay on top of answering questions and moderation, we used the Discourse API to publish new messages into our Slack. All-in-all I would say we were happy with Discourse - the only caveat would be that it's very helpful to have technical knowledge as well as Rails knowledge in order to get the most out of it.
From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."
- Easy to integrate with1.2K
- Excellent interface on multiple platforms876
- Free846
- Mobile friendly692
- People really enjoy using it688
- Great integrations329
- Flexible notification preferences314
- Unlimited users196
- Strong search and data archiving184
- Multi domain switching support154
- Easy to use80
- Beautiful39
- Hubot support27
- Unread/read control22
- Slackbot21
- Permalink for each messages18
- Text snippet with highlighting17
- Quote message easily15
- Per-room notification14
- Awesome integration support13
- IRC gateway12
- Star for each message / attached files12
- Good communication within a team11
- Dropbox Integration11
- Jira Integration10
- Slick, search is great10
- New Relic Integration9
- Great communication tool8
- Combine All Services Quickly8
- Asana Integration8
- Awesomeness7
- This tool understands developers7
- Google Drive Integration7
- Replaces email6
- BitBucket integration6
- XMPP gateway6
- Twitter Integration6
- Google Docs Integration6
- GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback5
- Jenkins Integration5
- Guest and Restricted user control5
- Gathers all my communications in one place4
- Excellent multi platform internal communication tool4
- GitHub integration4
- Mention list view4
- Easy to start working with3
- Visual Studio Integration3
- Perfect implementation of chat + integrations3
- Easy3
- Easy to add a reaction3
- Clean UI3
- Timely while non intrusive3
- Great on-boarding3
- Threaded chat3
- Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations2
- Simplicity2
- Great interface2
- So much better than email2
- Message Actions2
- Great Channel Customization2
- It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC2
- Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams2
- Android app2
- Great API1
- Very customizable1
- API1
- Easy remote communication1
- Get less busy1
- Targetprocess integration1
- Better User Experience1
- Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock1
- Archive Importing1
- Great Support Team1
- Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT1
- Markdown1
- Multi work-space support1
- Flexible and Accessible1
- Travis CI integration1
- It's the coolest IM ever1
- I was 666 star :D1
- Community1
- Dev communication Made Easy1
- Integrates with just about everything1
- Easy to useL0
- Platforms0
- Can be distracting depending on how you use it12
- Requires some management for large teams6
- Limit messages history5
- Too expensive4
- You don't really own your messages4
- Too many notifications by default3
related Slack posts
Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.
Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)
You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.
Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!
#WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat