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  5. Disqus vs XenForo

Disqus vs XenForo

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Overview

Disqus
Disqus
Stacks2.5K
Followers480
Votes466
XenForo
XenForo
Stacks528
Followers19
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Disqus
Disqus
XenForo
XenForo

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.

It is a commercial Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language.

Clean & Intuitive- We designed the platform to be clutter-free, which keeps people's eyes focused on the discussion itself.;Fully real-time Live discussions- Discussions unfold in real-time. Comments stream as they are posted and user activity indicates life on your website.;Activity indicators- Indicators make it easier for people to notice, see, and interact with new content and activity as it happens.;Typing presence- Disqus even shows when others are in the middle of writing and editing their comment but haven’t posted just yet.;More dynamic content- The real-time system is designed for active communities, live events, and video content.;Quality discussions- A smart voting system surfaces the best content on the page.;Loyal communities- People can see your community’s unique set of top participants and other popular discussions happening across your website.;Mobile- Disqus automatically supports rich, feature-parity on phones and tablets via a fully responsive, end-to-end HTML5 design.;Recommended Conversations- Let users easily find other interesting conversations happening on your website.;Social Sharing- Allow users to easily share any comment or discussion thread to their favorite social network.;Social Reactions- Discussions around your content happens all over the web. Disqus finds these conversations from Twitter and pulls them into the discussion on your website.;Social Tagging- With @mentions, easily include others on Disqus and Twitter in your discussion. Mentioned people are notified and encouraged to join your community.;Moderation Dashboard- Our moderation panel in the Disqus admin is built for sites that have lots of commenting activity;User Reputation- Users can participate anonymously, using a pseudonym, or with a given name.;User History- Learn how long your users have been around and how active they are.;Keyboard Shortcuts- Quickly select a group of items, take action, and change tabs without touching your mouse.;In-Line & Email Moderation- Moderate your site directly on the comment thread while logged in as a moderator or moderate your comment notifications by email with three simple commands.;Spam Controls & Word Filtering- Our smart-spam system works network wide and responds to new flare-ups automatically as moderators indicate new issues.;Blacklisting & Whitelisting- With control lists, specify users, emails, IP addresses, and words.;Import and export anytime- You can import all your existing comments or export;Flexible, Powerful Partner API- Our API is full featured and allows your developers to integrate Disqus into your mobile app, widget, forum or visualization.;Analytics- Visualize data with topical trend analysis, user segmentation and ad sales packaging.;Single Sign-On- Integrate your existing login system and allow your community to comment via your proprietary sign-in, in addition to the social options Disqus makes available.;SEO Optimized- Disqus is fully indexable for search engines out- of-the-box. We have been approved by the Google Search Quality team to be organically crawled unlike any other comment platform.
Social Engagement; Recent Activity Stream; Easy Styling; Great Add-ons
Statistics
Stacks
2.5K
Stacks
528
Followers
480
Followers
19
Votes
466
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 141
    Ease of use
  • 116
    Free
  • 62
    Great ui
  • 45
    Sign-up not required
  • 40
    Wordpress integration
Cons
  • 4
    Ads
  • 1
    Bugs with migration tool
  • 1
    Poor support
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Integrations
WordPress
WordPress
Tumblr
Tumblr
Blogger
Blogger
Squarespace
Squarespace
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
CSS 3
CSS 3
Zend Framework
Zend Framework

What are some alternatives to Disqus, XenForo?

Discourse

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.

Flarum

Flarum

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

Haash

Haash

Easily add sections. Create questions and answer them on the fly. Drag and drop and move things around. Edit everything in a flash.

LiveFyre

LiveFyre

Livefyre’s real-time apps get your audience talking and turn your site into the hub for your community. Bloggers, brands and the largest publishers in the world use Livefyre to engage their users and curate live content from around the social web.

Commento

Commento

With Commento, you wouldn't need to worry about shady ad companies getting your data through hundreds of tracking services. You wouldn't need to worry about your page being slowed down - Commento uses just 22 kB total. And it's all open source.

Answer

Answer

It is an open-source knowledge-based community software. You can use it to quickly build your Q&A community for product technical support, customer support, user communication, and more.

Threads Forum

Threads Forum

It is designed to help teams inform, discuss, and make decisions at scale. For leaders at every level of a company, it is a platform for work that best delivers on decision making by tapping into the collective wisdom of an entire team, providing everyone with a voice to assure better business outcomes.

PeerBoard

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!

Talk

Talk

Online comments are broken. Our open-source Talk tool rethinks how moderation, comment display, and conversation function, creating the opportunity for safer, smarter discussions around your work.

Cusdis

Cusdis

It is an open source, lightweight (5kb gzipped), privacy-friendly alternative to Disqus.

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