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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.
| 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. |
| Application | Author(s) | demo | guest-post | notify | pre-moderate | post-moderate | comment | forum | title |
| 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 | ? | no | no | no | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Django Forum | Jonathan Buchanan | guest/guest | no | no | no | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| snapboard | Bo Shi, JW Mayfield | ? | no | no | no | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 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.
Most of my conclusions about supported features are based on reading the code, not on actually testing the apps. Please make correction in case I missed something.
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