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Discourse

Who runs Discourse, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest community forum software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Flarum

Measured from Discourse’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Discourse

Discourse discourse.org

Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.

Wikidata: open source Internet forum software application

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Discourse tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

10 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Discourse

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discourse, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than DiscourseNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

4 of the 60 sites closest to Discourse match.

  1. 01
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

    Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

    Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

    Compare Slack with Discourse →
  2. 02
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub with Discourse →
  3. 03
    Featurebase featurebase.app English Free plan 6 trackers

    Featurebase – AI support platform that improves your product

    Support customers from live chat, email, Slack, and more. Let AI resolve repetitive questions and surface the product & customer signals for your team to act on.

    Compare Featurebase with Discourse →
  4. 04
    GitBook gitbook.com English Free plan 6 trackers

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

    Compare GitBook with Discourse →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Discourse’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Discourse uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Discourse adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discourse’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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JavaScript libraries
  • GSAP asset https://www.discourse.org/a/js/gsap.min.js?v=20261026164621
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: YBlGYcp28tW1oQ3ADMu0G8jije-9YAlvjV1xjK8r0XDs8oFkHCvyVw==
Hosting
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:metal._spf.discoursemail.com include:_spf.google.com i…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)