Discourse on new websites
Open-source forum and community platform.
- Sites using Discourse
- 196
- since Apr 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.0%
-
of new sites, to Oct 19
no change on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 0.0%
- of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
| First seen | Apr 14, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Website | discourse.org |
What we found
- Discourse appeared on about 63 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
- Six in ten new Discourse sites also use nginx.
Share of new sites using Discourse
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Discourse, since 10 September.
What Discourse runs on
Rails
Who uses Discourse
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social | 46 | 59.7% | |
| Education | 7 | 9.1% | |
| Games | 6 | 7.8% | |
| Health | 5 | 6.5% | |
| Crypto | 3 | 3.9% | |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 3.9% | |
| AI | 2 | 2.6% | |
| Directory | 2 | 2.6% | |
| Content | 1 | 1.3% | |
| E-commerce | 1 | 1.3% | |
| Productivity | 1 | 1.3% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia |
2 | 18.2% | |
 Poland |
2 | 18.2% | |
 Brazil |
1 | 9.1% | |
 Canada |
1 | 9.1% | |
 China |
1 | 9.1% | |
 France |
1 | 9.1% | |
 UK |
1 | 9.1% | |
 India |
1 | 9.1% | |
 US |
1 | 9.1% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 98 | 50.3% | |
| .org | 27 | 13.9% | |
| .net | 14 | 7.2% | |
| .group | 6 | 3.1% | |
| .xyz | 6 | 3.1% | |
| .io | 5 | 2.6% | |
| .in | 4 | 2.1% | |
| .ai | 3 | 1.5% | |
| .dev | 3 | 1.5% | |
| .online | 3 | 1.5% | |
| .pro | 3 | 1.5% |
Community on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
XenForo
|
14.2% | |
| 2 | – | Discourse | 10.9% | |
| 3 | – |
Skool
|
7.4% | |
| 4 | ▼1 | Flarum | 6.1% | |
| 5 | ▼1 |
phpBB
|
6.1% |
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Community tool. All 145 in Community
Often used with Discourse
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
nginx
|
114 | 6.1x |
Tools that turn up far more often on Discourse sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on Discourse
10 of the 196 sites using Discourse are product launches we list individually. The other 186 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
South Korea
Watches, exports and the API give you all 196 sites using Discourse, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
How this page is made
FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards Discourse when we detect Discourse on it at that look.
Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites