phpBB 2 on new websites
Version 2 lineage of the phpBB forum software, still the base for several hosted forum platforms and forks.
- Sites using phpBB 2
- 27
- since Aug 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.0%
-
of new sites, to Oct 21
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 | Aug 3, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 20, 2026 |
| Website | phpbb.com |
What we found
- phpBB 2 appeared on 12 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
Share of new sites using phpBB 2
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use phpBB 2, since 10 September.
Who uses phpBB 2
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 14 | 51.9% | |
| .net | 4 | 14.8% | |
| .org | 4 | 14.8% | |
| .fr | 3 | 11.1% | |
| .sk | 1 | 3.7% | |
| .xyz | 1 | 3.7% |
Community on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
XenForo
|
14.4% | ||
| 2 | – | Discourse | 10.7% | ||
| 3 | – |
Skool
|
7.4% | ||
| 4 | ▼1 |
phpBB
|
6.2% | ||
| 5 | ▼1 | Flarum | 6.0% | ||
| … | |||||
| 16 | ▲8 | phpBB 2 | 1.5% | ||
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Community tool. Among September launches it ranked #14 in Community, up from #22 in August. All 148 in Community
Recently launched products built on phpBB 2
2 of the 27 sites using phpBB 2 are product launches we list individually. The other 25 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
| Site | Found |
|---|---|
| Livraudio : Votre bibliothèque audio livraudio.com · Social | Oct 19 |
| Shinobi Legacy shinobilegacyrpg.com · Games | Sep 15 |
Watches, exports and the API give you all 27 sites using phpBB 2, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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 phpBB 2 when we detect phpBB 2 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