Comparison Discuz! X vs XenForo

Discuz! is a software designed to support users in the area of Internet Forums. The software is based on PHP. It is widely used by users in China. It is available for free for private use. However, it comes with a license with commercial use costs. The software is officially available in Chinese only. It is used to build large websites to create community forums, blogs, intra-city communities, game exchange stations, dating purposes and picture material stations, among others. The software is recognized for its high performance and high-quality security. It is designed to support MySQL and PostgreSQL as well.

XenForo is a community platform created to help businesses grow their communities and engage their customers. XenForo is available as XenForo Cloud and XenForo self-hosted. It provides a space to facilitate interaction. XenForo also provides high-quality crowd support and helps businesses gain more control over their data. It helps with the recovery of important content with ease. It helps facilitate valuable discussions and create knowledge bases. XenForo comes with several add-on products such as media gallery, resource manager, enhanced search along with intuitive authoring tools. It also provides extensive moderation tools for staff to help them face the common content issues.