Newgrounds vs NodeBB

Newgrounds is a web community for publishing and discussing user-submitted games, movies, music, art, writing, and other content. Its sections include Movies, Games, Audio, Art, Portal, and Community. Creators can upload animations such as MP4 videos and publish HTML5 games. An audio portal and co-authoring system support collaboration and creator credits, while users can review submissions and offer feedback. The service includes private spaces, event hosting, and moderation tools. A free plan is available, with Supporter memberships adding ad-free browsing, a badge, higher daily private-message limits, Tuesday front-page featuring, and custom profile-picture shapes. Supporters can place up to 40 art pieces in one project and 200 playlist items; the default playlist limit is 100. They can upload lossless audio for MP3 web conversion and provide up to 10 game save slots per player with an 8MB maximum, versus 3 slots and 2MB for non-Supporters. Monthly membership starts at $5 a month; yearly membership is $36 a year. Only scouted creators can enable audio downloads.

NodeBB is a community discussion platform for forums and online communities, including brand communities and product support boards. Members can write topics and replies using a visual editor or Markdown, chat in real time, and receive notifications for follows, likes and topic subscriptions. They can form groups with activity feeds, tag topics and follow tags for updates. Administrators can create unlimited moderator and administrator accounts and set their permissions. More than 500 plugins and themes can be installed through the control panel, and public Read and RESTful Write APIs support integrations. Spam-prevention integrations include Akismet, StopForumSpam and Project Honeypot. Self-hosted NodeBB is free to download and install under GPLv3; hosted plans start at $20 a month and include priority support. Basic full-text search uses the bundled database engine; Solr and Elasticsearch search require third-party plugins. Installation guides cover Linux, macOS, Windows and cloud deployment options including Docker.