Technology answer

Discourse

383

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 2,946 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, <0.01%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

No published series

383 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 190 of them. A monthly line drawn off that many observations would be noise at the same weight as a line off millions, so this page states the count and its date and publishes no series.

First discovered 4 Oct 2019, last discovered 10 Sept 2026.

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 383each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

<0.01%

companies running anything in Community and Forums

24,079

1.6%

companies running anything in Hosted community platforms

15,043

2.5%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Discourse is rank 6 of 28 technologies in Hosted community platforms.

Open as a segment

383 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

An open-source discussion forum platform with optional hosted service.

Discourse is an open-source community forum and discussion platform built with Ruby on Rails, available for self-hosting or via paid hosting. It is developed by Discourse (Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.) and used by companies and communities to run modern discussion boards.

Kindproduct

VendorDiscourse, discourse.org

PathCustomer Engagement and Support > Community and Forums > Hosted community platforms

Slugdiscourse

Deploymenthybrid

Pricingfree, subscription

Open sourceyes

First discovered2019-10-04

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerHosted community platformsCompanies running anything in Hosted community platforms, 15,043 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerCommunity and ForumsThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.