Django Packages : Forum

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Package	Misago	Askbot	Spirit	django-machina	django-machina	pybbm	PunkwebBB	Muss	Sphene Community Tools	Sphene Community Tools	DjForum	Yolla	django-forum

Package	Misago	Askbot	Spirit	django-machina	django-machina	pybbm	PunkwebBB	Muss	Sphene Community Tools	Sphene Community Tools	DjForum	Yolla	django-forum
Description	Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.	Askbot is a Django/Python Q&A forum. Contributors README: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel#how-to-contribute. Commercial hosting of Askbot and support are available at https://askbot.com	Spirit is a modern Python/Django forum	A Django forum engine for building powerful community driven websites.	A Django forum engine for building powerful community driven websites.	Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project.	Django application that provides a simple and modern forum board for your Django Website	WARNING: this repo is not maintained anymore.				A web forum with some unique features built with the Django Python web framework.
Category	Project	App	App	Framework	Framework	App	App	Project	Framework	Framework	App	Framework	App
# Using This	27	26	25	10	10	14	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
Python 3?
Development Status	Beta	Beta	Production/Stable	Beta	Beta	Beta	Unknown	n/a	Beta	n/a	Alpha	n/a	n/a
Last updated	July 26, 2025, 9:15 a.m.	July 28, 2025, 3:54 p.m.	April 19, 2025, 1:42 p.m.	Jan. 1, 2025, 11:26 a.m.	Jan. 1, 2025, 11:26 a.m.	Dec. 16, 2024, 4:31 p.m.	May 6, 2025, 5:52 p.m.	Jan. 1, 2025, 12:35 p.m.				Oct. 9, 2022, 11:02 a.m.
Version	0.39.3	0.12.2	0.14.3	1.3.1	1.3.1	0.19.0	0.5.1	n/a	0.5	n/a	1.0.0	n/a	n/a
Repo	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	GitHub	Other	Other	Bitbucket	GitHub	Other
Commits
Stars	2,656	1,568	1,182	598	598	224	12	18	0	0	0	3	0
Repo Forks	542	622	334	130	130	154	4	4	0	0	0	0	0
Participants	rafalp l0ud chimeworld NotKit kasperisager ChandlerBent musindmitriy WojtekReu raydeal f-z more...	evgenyfadeev fitoria martin-bts tomaszzielinski byroncorrales yuttadhammo n3ssi3 ZuluPro vxsx hrcerqueira more...	nitely cryptogun alesdotio andreynovikov mdamien nitely-throwaway777 initialkommit sheepsy90 benmurden rkenmi more...	ellmetha dependabot[bot] BrendaH BoPeng strindhaug barsch franga2000 lauri-openscop reinbach savelmtr more...	ellmetha dependabot[bot] BrendaH BoPeng strindhaug barsch franga2000 lauri-openscop reinbach savelmtr more...	GeyseR lorien zeus lampslave DylannCordel skolsuper chrisv2 nigma amigo goeranu more...	shakedown-street zkxjzmswkwl	mapeveri dependabot[bot] bgarcial				yulaymusin
Documentation		n/a							n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
forum
private
guest-post
msg-history	(Depends on permissions set)
title
comment
modify
documentation	https://misago.gitbook.io/docs/	http://askbot.org/doc/index.html	https://spirit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/		http://django-machina.readthedocs.org/en/latest/	http://rtfd.org/projects/pybbm
who is online	Status indicators by usernames in UI		only admins
source code highlighting	(highlight.js)					* with 3rd party libraries
Responsive						(custom templates supported)
Polls
Markup	Github-flavoured Markdown with BBCode subset	Markdown, WYSIWYG (Tinymce)	Github-flavoured Markdown		Markdown by default It is configurable	BBCode, Markdown
pre-moderate
post-moderate													*
notify
list own posts
list subscriptions
Unit tests	>95% coverage	>370 test cases	>600 test cases, 97% coverage		>400 test cases
demo	http://misago-project.org	http://askbot.org/en/questions/	http://spirit-project.com/		http://demo.machina-forum.io http://vanilla.machina-forum.io	http://www.pybbm.org				http://sct.sphene.net/board/
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Feature	Description
forum	The app provides the csoncept of a forum inside which message threads are<br>grouped.
private	Users can send private messages to other users.
guest-post	Visitors can post messages without registration.
msg-history	When message are modified, everyone can see the change history.
title	Individual messages can have their own titles.
comment	Any Django model instance can have a message thread attached to it.
modify	Users can modify messages.
documentation	Does project have documentation helping to install/maintain the forum?
who is online	A who is online user list
source code highlighting	source code highlighting in posts?
Responsive	Default stylesheet is responsive and adapts to device size or input method?
Polls	App provieds poll topics
Markup	Markup languages available for members to format their messages in.
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
notify	An administrator can be notified by E-mail and/or SMS about new messages. Note<br>that this feature should be trivial to add to most apps with signals and<br>external code only.
list own posts	a user can get a list of his own posts?
list subscriptions	user can get a list of all post that he has subscription
Unit tests	Does the project have an automated testing suite?
demo	If the application has a public demo site, a link and login/password are given.
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