Discuz! is an Internet forum

Internet forum

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 package written in the PHP

PHP

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 developed by Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd . It supports MySQL

MySQL

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 and PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

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 databases. It is the most popular Internet forum

Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...

 program used in China

People's Republic of China

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Discuz! is free of charge for private uses. A license that allows the commercial use costs about 3000 RMB. The software is officially available in Chinese

Chinese language

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. It was officially developed in English

English language

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 version also, but the development stopped due to financial reasons. However, there's unofficial English and other languages versions provided by certain websites.

History

Based on another Internet forum program "Asia XMB" in English version, Discuz! was originally developed by Dai Zhikang as "Crossday Bulletin (CDB)" in March 2002. It was renamed to "Discuz!" with its first 1.0 version released on 15 October, 2002. In February 2003, the Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd. was established.

Before v2.0, Discuz! was not free of charge. Since June 2003, there has been a free version as well as a commercial version charges available. With the version 6.1.0, the software is dependent on an existing UCenter installation. which is an interface to join all the Comsenz products in the website. It's unified mainly as an user management software, so information like private messages can be used in all the Comsenz products on the same website. Another innovation is the integration of the Chinese marketing service provider Insenz.

Comsenz was acquired by Tencent in August 2010. Discuz! X 1.0 was developed in 2010, combining with other SNS

Social network service

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, web portal

Web portal

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, group

Web community

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 and open platform

Open Platform

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produced by the company.

Other products

Currently, the products of Comsenz include: Discuz!, Discuz! X, Discuz!NT, UCenter, UCenter Home, X-space, SupeSite, Comsenz EXP, Insenz, Manyou Open Platform, Yeswan, Brand, etc.

External Links

• Discuz! Official Site (in Chinese)
• Discuz! International Support Site (in English)
• Discuz! Downloads
• Discuz! Thailand (in Thailand)
• Discuz! Indonesia (in English)
• Discuz! عربي (in Arabic)
• Discuz! European Support (in English and Turkish)