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Talkyard vs Misago: catalog facts
Talkyard	Misago
Freemium Self-hosting is free; the hosted service offers a free trial.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Combines forum, Q&A, idea voting and blog comments in one tool Optional anonymous comments	Sign-in through more than 50 OAuth providers Markdown and BBCode posting
Chat features are basic Documentation is incomplete	Still on 0.x releases with features in active development Requires running a Python and Django stack
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: GPL-2.0
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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