Discourse or discuz ?

I love the look of your forum and Discuz overall!

Just as a very general feedback, I’d imagine that if you mainly operate in China and you don’t need multi-language support, you will have an easier time using Discuz.

With respect to being outdated, I see you’re using X3.5 and their new platform is X5. All the information is in Chinese, but it seems that’s a full framework rebuild?

Depending on what you want to do, an important difference between Discuz and Discourse could be in licensing. Discourse is open-source licensed with GPL-2.0. I’d be curious to understand the licensing model behind Discuz better. It seems it’s only source-available? I couldn’t locate a stated license text, but translated there’s this section on both https://gitee.com/Discuz/DiscuzX (X3.5) and https://gitee.com/Discuz/DiscuzX/tree/MitFrame/ (X5):

You can fork the code of this site, but you are prohibited from developing any derivative version, modified version or third-party version based on the whole or any part of this product for redistribution without permission.

@Heliosurge it’s a very popular and vibrant project, it’s just that the english resources you’ll find at first are very limited. The official sites are:

Discuz! X
Discuz! X5

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