# Which is Better? Discourse or Flarum?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-is-better-discourse-or-flarum/71726
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [10.Октябрь.2017 00:10:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-is-better-discourse-or-flarum/71726 "2017-10-10T00:10:48Z")
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### Author: ![8BIT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/8bit/32/76872_2.png) [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [10.Октябрь.2017 01:30:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-is-better-discourse-or-flarum/71726/2 "2017-10-10T01:30:24Z")

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I think you’ll only get biased answers here… but, let’s allow the software to do (most of) the talking…

> [@1,000,000 pageviews in 2 weeks...! Why? Because Discourse. rocket](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891):
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> Just [15 days ago](https://john.do/bitcoin-pub/) I shared a new [Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency community site](http://thebitcoin.pub/) that my brother was putting together and it’s been an insane 15 days. The first day that the site was live it saw a grand total of 796 pageviews – not bad, not bad, right? I was impressed but I wasn’t even remotely prepared for what was to come. You see, the next day the site didn’t see double the number of pageviews or even triple. It didn’t see 5 or even 10X. The very next day the community site clocked in nearly 60,00…

I’ve used a most of the major forum software (both paid and free // OSS) and Discourse has been an absolute joy to use in comparison. Not only could I put it together quickly (i.e. installation, setup, config(s)) but the results speak for themselves and our community quickly scaled way bigger than we were prepared for (which is obviously a good thing).

The thing that I haven’t shared is the financial / business aspects which Discourse has enabled my brother and I to accomplish… which I’m somewhat shy about sharing publicly, but, the growth has been so good (along with great plugins like [Patreon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-patreon-integration/44366) that allow us to build revenue) that I quit my full-time job to work on the community exclusively.

That has all happened in the last few months.

I could go on and on, but, I’m so !@#$!^\* thankful for Discourse and if I were to do it all over again… well, you know the answer to that.

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