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Discourse vs IFTTT: 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 IFTTT? Put the internet to work for you. Create powerful connections with one simple statement: if this then that. For example: "Backup my contacts to a Google Spreadsheet".

Discourse and IFTTT are primarily classified as "Forums" and "Web Service Automation" tools respectively.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 20 developers like Discourse, while over 20 developers mention "Lots of integrations" as the leading cause for choosing IFTTT.

Discourse is an open source tool with 28.5K GitHub stars and 6.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Discourse's open source repository on GitHub.

Durham AV Group, All3DP, and esa are some of the popular companies that use IFTTT, whereas Discourse is used by CircleCI, Chartio, and Twitter. IFTTT has a broader approval, being mentioned in 30 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Discourse, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Discourse
Pros of IFTTT
  • 28
    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
  • 21
    Lots of integrations
  • 17
    Free
  • 12
    Automates manual tasks
  • 11
    Life automation
  • 7
    Internet of things
  • 2
    Good User Experiance
  • 2
    Mobile Application

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Cons of Discourse
Cons of IFTTT
  • 3
    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 IFTTT?

    It helps you connect all of your different apps and devices. You can enable your apps and devices to work together to do specific things they couldn't do otherwise.

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    What are some alternatives to Discourse and IFTTT?
    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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