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A realtime distributed messaging platform.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, NSQ should be more popular than NodeBB. It has been mentioned 8 times since March 2021.
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NodeBB is recommended for businesses, communities, and developers who require a customizable and real-time forum solution. It's particularly suitable for tech-savvy users who want to leverage Node.js and those looking to integrate forums with existing web applications.
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GopherCon 2014 Spray Some NSQ On It by Matt Reiferson
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External articles and on-site reviews we used to compare the two products.


NSQ is designed with a distributed architecture around the concept of topics, which allows messages to be organized and distributed across the cluster. To ensure reliable delivery, NSQ replicates each message across...
NodeBB is a next-generation discussion platform that utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB forums have many modern features out of the box such as social network integration...
I was lucky enough to stumble on NodeBB in the early days right as we were transitioning a large user base from another forum and needed a platform that could handle the volume and speed of interactions that our users...
Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


Https://nsq.io/ is also very reliable, stable, lightweight, and easy to use. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
(G)NATS can do millions of messages per second and is the right tool for the job (either that or NSQ). Redis isn't even the fastest Redis protocol implementation, KeyDB significantly outperforms it. Source: over 3 years ago
Bit.ly's NSQ is also an excellent message queue option. Source: almost 4 years ago
You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
> I'm a big fan of https://nodebb.org/ TIL to what shit Netgate moved pfSense forums to. I'm glad you are fine with it, but not only my FullHD monitor is not a smartphone, so I don't need 400% fonts on everything (and post dates on the... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
I wrote about this a while ago for Slack/forums: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451 but the points still hold. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216 Full featured OSS forum you can self-host or let... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
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