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Comparison of forum apps
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| Package | Misago | Askbot | Spirit | django-machina | pybbm | PunkwebBB | Muss | Sphene Community Tools | Sphene Community Tools | django-forum |
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Description
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Misago is fully featured
modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive. |
Askbot is a Django/Python Q&A
forum. **Contributors README**: https://github.com/ASKBO… |
Spirit is a modern
Python/Django forum |
A Django forum engine for
building powerful community driven websites. |
Django forum solution. Tested,
documented, shipped with example project. |
Django application that
provides a simple and modern forum board for your Django Website |
WARNING: this repo is not
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0.39.4 | 0.12.8 | 0.14.3 | 1.3.1 | 0.19.0 | 0.5.2 | - | - | - | - |
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2,720 | 1,567 | 1,184 | 604 | 225 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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5 May 2026 | 19 Apr 2026 | 19 Apr 2025 | 1 Jan 2026 | 16 Dec 2024 | 27 Apr 2026 | 1 Jan 2025 | - | - | - |
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GPLv2 | GPL-3.0-or-… | MIT License | BSD-3-Clause | BSD | BSD-3-Clause | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |
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Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.
>95% coverage
Askbot is a Django/Python Q&A forum. **Contributors README**: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel#how-to-contribute. Commercial hosting of Askbot and support are available at https://askbot.com
>370 test cases
Spirit is a modern Python/Django forum
>600 test cases, 97% coverage
A Django forum engine for building powerful community driven websites.
>400 test cases
It is configurable
Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project.
Django application that provides a simple and modern forum board for your Django Website
WARNING: this repo is not maintained anymore.
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Features Being Compared
demo
If the application has a public demo site, a link and login/password are given.
guest-post
Visitors can post messages without registration.
notify
An administrator can be notified by E-mail and/or SMS about new messages. Note that this feature should be trivial to add to most apps with signals and external code only.
pre-moderate
It's possible to hide new messages until they are approved by an administrator.
post-moderate
The app provides a user interface for removing messages
comment
Any Django model instance can have a message thread attached to it.
forum
The app provides the csoncept of a forum inside which message threads are grouped.
title
Individual messages can have their own titles.
modify
Users can modify messages.
msg-history
When message are modified, everyone can see the change history.
private
Users can send private messages to other users.
documentation
Does project have documentation helping to install/maintain the forum?
Unit tests
Does the project have an automated testing suite?
Responsive
Default stylesheet is responsive and adapts to device size or input method?
who is online
A who is online user list
source code highlighting
source code highlighting in posts?
list own posts
a user can get a list of his own posts?
list subscriptions
user can get a list of all post that he has subscription
Polls
App provieds poll topics
Markup
Markup languages available for members to format their messages in.