Message boards · comparison
Discourse vs phpBB
phpBB is used on 4,528 sites, 43% more than Discourse (3,163 sites).
In Message boards, Discourse ranks #3 and phpBB #1 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Discourse grew 0.1% and phpBB held steady.
No site in our index runs both Discourse and phpBB.
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Discourse
discourse.org
- Sites
- 3,163
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.02%
- Rank in Message boards
- #3
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.13%
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phpBB
phpbb.com
- Sites
- 4,528
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.03%
- Rank in Message boards
- #1
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.04%
Sites using both
0
sites run Discourse and phpBB
of Discourse sites0%
of phpBB sites0%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.