Django Forum Apps Comparison

Yvan Seth's blog entry ​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.

Features currently 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.
moderate	It's possible to hide new messages until they are approved by an administrator.

Summary of major Django forum/discussion apps and their support for the above features

Application	Author(s)	demo	guest-post	notify	moderate
contrib.comments	Django authors	?	Yes	No?	?
comment-utils	James Bennett	?	?	?	?
django-threadedcomments	Eric Florenzano	?	Yes	Yes	Yes
django-forum	Ross Poulton	?	no	patch	no
counterpoint	Colin Grady	?	?	?	?
Django Forum	Jonathan Buchanan	guest/guest	No	No	No
snapboard	Bo Shi, JW Mayfield	?	?	?	?
MyghtyBoard	Piotr Malinski	?	?	?	?
Sphene	Herbert Poul	?	yes *	reg *	no *
Zyons	Ian Holsman?	?	?	?	?
Column headings and * symbols reveal verbose descriptions when the mouse pointer hovers over them.

This page was originally created by ​akaihola. There's a ​django-users thread about this page. I'll update information posted on that thread to this page.

Comments

​Jonathan Buchanan: django-discussion is not actively maintained or developed at this time (parts of it were extracted into ​Django MPTT) – ​django-threadedcomments looks like a more complete and feature-rich implementation of the type of functionality it provided, so I've removed discussion and put threadedcomments in its place.

To do

Ideas for making this page better:

• add column for supported Django versions/revisions/branches