= Django Forum Apps Comparison =

Yvan Seth's blog entry [http://yvan.seth.id.au/Entries/Technology/Code/Django_Forum_Software.html Django Forum Software] from December 2007 lists a few well-known discussion forum applications for Django. This page continues on the same tracks and tries to gather a comparison of essential features in those applications.

Hover the mouse pointer over the column headings for verbose descriptions.

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<table class="listing">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <td>App</td>
      <td>Author(s)</td>
      <td title="E-mail/SMS Notification / Thread Subscription">notify</td>
      <td title="Moderator can accept/reject messages before they are published">moderate</td>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-forum/" 
             title="Simple Django Forum Component">django-forum</a></td>
      <td>Ross Poulton</td>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-forum/issues/detail?id=8">patch</a></td>
      <td>Django admin</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/counterpoint"
             title="forum written with django">counterpoint</a></td>
      <td>Colin Grady</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://www.jonathanbuchanan.plus.com/repos/forum"
             title="Jonathan's Django Forum">Django Forum</a></td>
      <td>Jonathan Buchanan</td>
      <td>no?</td>
      <td>no?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-discussion"
             title="django-discussion">django-discussion</a></td>
      <td>Jonathan Buchanan</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/snapboard"
             title="S(imple), N(imble), A(ttractive), P(ython) board">snapboard</a></td>
      <td>Bo Shi, JW Mayfield</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://code.google.com/p/diamanda"
             title="Diamanda “MyghtyBoard” FORUM">MyghtyBoard</a></td>
      <td>Piotr Malinski</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://sct.sphene.net/wiki/show/Board/"
             title="Sphene Community Tools">Sphene</a></td>
      <td>Herbert Poul</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><a href="http://zyons.com/"
             title="Zyons Community Applications">Zyons</a></td>
      <td>Ian Holsman?</td>
      <td>?</td>
      <td>?</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
}}}

This page was originally created by [http://djangopeople.net/akaihola/ akaihola]. There's a [http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/56a6b62aba0c8766 django-users thread] about this page. I'll update information posted on that thread to this page.