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A comparison of forums inspired by http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison.
Features currently being evaluated
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 concept 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? |
| Package | Askbot | DjangoBB | pybbm | PyBB | Sphene Community Tools | LBForum | Dinette | OSQA | django-forum | Sphene Community Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description |
ASKBOT is a StackOverflow-like Q&A forum, based on CNPROG. |
Mirror of DjangoBB app. DjangoBB is a quick and simple forum which uses the Django. Demo: http://support.djangobb.o... |
Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project. |
PyBB is simple forum engine based on on Django. Key feature of pybb is the easy of integration to existing ... |
LBForum is a forum engine written in Python using Django |
Dinette is a forum application in the spirit of PunBB. | ||||
| Category | App | App | App | App | Framework | App | App | App | App | Framework |
| # Using This | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Downloads | 95436 | n/a | 3323 | 3140 | n/a | 3989 | 1907 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Last updated | Feb. 21, 2012, 8:02 p.m. | Feb. 16, 2012, 11:52 p.m. | Feb. 16, 2012, 11:48 a.m. | July 26, 2011, 11:26 p.m. | Feb. 9, 2012, 6:06 p.m. | Jan. 9, 2012, 12:40 a.m. | ||||
| Version | 0.7.39 | n/a | 0.6.3 | 0.1.10 | n/a | 0.9.22 | 1.2b | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Repo | Github | Bitbucket | Github | Bitbucket | Other | Github | Github | Other | Other | Other |
| Commits | ||||||||||
| Repo Watchers | 314 | 38 | 8 | 41 | n/a | 142 | 106 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Repo Forks | 102 | 13 | 6 | 3 | n/a | 15 | 18 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Participants | evgenyfadeev fitoria pekka raspi tomaszzielinski byroncorrales hrcerqueira chagel turian jbofill more... | slav0nic | lorien zeus gpetukhov mankala invalid-email-address surbas gregmuellegger williambr piranha asakura more... | lorien | vicalloy transifex ajcronk 9cloud | Balu-Varanasi akshar-raaj arjunc77 atmb4u bitaVersion dheerosaur plaban123 saikiran shabda superxor more... | ||||
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| Package | Askbot | DjangoBB | pybbm | PyBB | Sphene Community Tools | LBForum | Dinette | OSQA | django-forum | Sphene Community Tools |
| demo | http://askbot.org/en/questions/ | http://support.djangobb.org/ | http://www.pybbm.org | http://pep8.ru/forum | http://sct.sphene.net/board/ | http://vik.haoluobo.com/lbforum/ | http://uswaretech.com/forum/ | |||
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| comment | | | | | | | | |||
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| msg-history | | | | | | | | |||
| private | | | | | | | | |||
| documentation | http://askbot.org/doc/index.html | http://rtfd.org/projects/pybbm | http://packages.python.org/pybb/ | |||||||
| Unit tests |
>370 test cases | | ||||||||
| Package | Askbot | DjangoBB | pybbm | PyBB | Sphene Community Tools | LBForum | Dinette | OSQA | django-forum | Sphene Community Tools |