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Misago vs AsmBB: catalog facts
Misago	AsmBB
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the EUPL-1.2.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Sign-in through more than 50 OAuth providers Markdown and BBCode posting	Very small resource footprint Single SQLite database, no separate database server
Still on 0.x releases with features in active development Requires running a Python and Django stack	Small community and few extensions compared with mainstream forums Documentation lives mainly in forum threads
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: EUPL-1.2
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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