Technology answer

SMF

companies run it of 54,527,857 in the index, too few to publish a share. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 947 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

16 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 16 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 26 Oct 2019, last discovered 4 Mar 2024.

Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 4 Mar 2024

Open-source forum software for building and managing online communities.

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is a PHP-based, self-hosted forum application from Simple Machines. It is used by communities and organizations to run discussion boards on their own servers.

Kindproduct

VendorSimple Machines, simplemachines.org

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

Slugsmf

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingfree

Open sourceyes

First discovered2019-10-26

Last discovered2024-03-04

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.