Technology answer

Simple Machines Forum

359

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

Hosts: 4,467 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

359 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 158 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 5 Oct 2023, last discovered 10 Sept 2026.

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 359each 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

1.5%

companies running anything in Self-hosted forum software

4,626

7.8%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Simple Machines Forum is rank 4 of 19 technologies in Self-hosted forum software.

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359 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

Open-source PHP forum software by Simple Machines.

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is self‑hosted forum software written in PHP for creating message boards. It is developed by the Simple Machines project and used by communities and organizations to run discussion forums.

Kindproduct

VendorSimple Machines, simplemachines.org

PathCustomer Engagement and Support > Community and Forums > Self-hosted forum software

Slugsimple-machines-forum

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingfree

Open sourceyes

First discovered2023-10-05

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerSelf-hosted forum softwareCompanies running anything in Self-hosted forum software, 4,626 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.