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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 | Description | Category | Downloads | Last Updated | Version | Repo | Commits | Repo watchers | Forks | Participants | License | demo | guest-post | notify | pre-moderate | post-moderate | comment | forum | title | modify | msg-history | private | documentation | Unit tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Askbot | ASKBOT is a StackOverflow-like Q&A forum, based on CNPROG. | App | 126615 | May 14, 2012, 12:35 p.m. | 0.7.43 | Github | 362 | 119 | evgenyfadeev fitoria pekka raspi tomaszzielinski byroncorrales hrcerqueira chagel jbofill turian more... | GPLv3 | http://askbot.org/en/questions/ |  |  | | | | | | | | | http://askbot.org/doc/index.html |
>370 test cases | |
| DjangoBB | DjangoBB is a quick and simple forum which uses the Django. PLEASE USE STABLE BRANCH. Demo: http://support.djangobb.org/ | App | 0 | May 16, 2012, 10:37 p.m. | Bitbucket | 41 | 15 | slav0nic | UNKNOWN | http://support.djangobb.org/ | | | | | | | | | | | ||||
| pybbm | Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project. | App | 3996 | March 6, 2012, 1:35 p.m. | 0.7.0 | Github | 18 | 8 | lorien zeus gpetukhov amigo invalid-email-address williambr surbas gregmuellegger asakura angerme more... | BSD | http://www.pybbm.org | | | | | | | | | | | http://rtfd.org/projects/pybbm | | |
| Sphene Community Tools | Framework | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | http://sct.sphene.net/board/ | | | | | | | | | | | ||||||
| PyBB | PyBB is simple forum engine based on on Django. Key feature of pybb is the easy of integration to existing ... | App | 3272 | July 26, 2011, 11:26 p.m. | 0.1.10 | Bitbucket | 42 | 3 | lorien | BSD | http://pep8.ru/forum | | | | | | | | | | | http://packages.python.org/pybb/ | ||
| LBForum | LBForum is a forum engine written in Python using Django | App | 4236 | Feb. 9, 2012, 6:06 p.m. | 0.9.22 | Github | 146 | 16 | vicalloy transifex ajcronk 9cloud | BSD License | http://vik.haoluobo.com/lbforum/ | | | | * | | | | | | | |||
| Dinette | Dinette is a forum application in the spirit of PunBB. | App | 2279 | Jan. 9, 2012, 12:40 a.m. | 1.2b | Github | 103 | 18 | Balu-Varanasi akshar-raaj arjunc77 atmb4u bhaskar8088 bitaVersion dheerosaur saikiran shabda theju more... | GPL | http://uswaretech.com/forum/ | | | |||||||||||
| OSQA | App | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | |||||||||||||||||
| django-forum | App | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | | | | * | | | | | | | |||||||
| Sphene Community Tools | Framework | 0 | None | Other | 0 | 0 | UNKNOWN | |||||||||||||||||
| Package | Description | Category | Downloads | Last Updated | Version | Repo | Commits | Repo watchers | Forks | Participants | License | demo | guest-post | notify | pre-moderate | post-moderate | comment | forum | title | modify | msg-history | private | documentation | Unit tests |