Started in 2013 in San Francisco by Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood and others, Discourse rebuilds the forum experience on Ruby on Rails with trust-level mechanics and a plugin ecosystem, available self-hosted or managed.
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Discord is a real-time community communication platform founded in San Francisco in 2015, with over 890 million registered users and 200 million monthly actives, known for low-latency voice, flexible channel management, and a huge bot ecosystem.
Founded around 2019 in New York, Circle delivers a hosted paid community that puts spaces, courses, events, and memberships in one admin, aimed at creators and small teams with an existing audience and no server work.
Launched in 2010 by former vBulletin core developers in the UK, XenForo is commercially licensed with a mature add-on market, where paid downloads, user upgrades, and permission groups anchor its fit for resource and membership communities.