Vs Asgaros
How Jetonomy compares to Asgaros Forum - moving up from a lightweight forum to a full discussion platform.
What You Will Learn
Section titled “What You Will Learn”- Key differences between Jetonomy and Asgaros Forum
- Where Jetonomy excels for growing communities
- What Asgaros Forum still does well
Try Jetonomy before you commit - launch a free sandbox site in your browser. Nothing to install. You get a throwaway Jetonomy install to click around in, so you can see how spaces, topics, threaded replies and voting actually behave rather than reading about them. It is a disposable demo, not a live community - post whatever you like, it is not permanent.
Feature Comparison
Section titled “Feature Comparison”| Feature | Asgaros Forum | Jetonomy |
|---|---|---|
| Data storage | Custom tables | Custom tables (22 tables) |
| Forum formats | Forums + sub-forums | 4 space types (forum, Q&A, ideas, feed) |
| Threaded replies | Flat | 3-level threading |
| Voting | Not built-in | Built-in upvote/downvote with reputation |
| Q&A with accepted answers | Not available | Built-in (per-space type) |
| Idea boards | Not available | Built-in with status workflow |
| Trust levels | Not available | 6-level auto-promotion system (0-5) |
| Search | Built-in search | FULLTEXT index with advanced filters |
| Real-time interactions | Page reload required | Real-time updates with no page reload |
| Moderation | Approve / unapprove topics | Flag system + queue + auto-rules (Pro) |
| Anti-spam | reCAPTCHA / honeypot | Akismet + reCAPTCHA v3 + Turnstile (invisible) |
| Membership gating | Not built-in | Adapter system (MemberPress, PMPro free; WooCommerce, LMS Pro) |
| REST API | Limited | 80 endpoints (153 with Pro) |
| Private messaging | Not built-in | Built-in (Pro) |
| Polls | Not built-in | Built-in (Pro) |
| Analytics | Basic stats | Dashboard with export (Pro) |
| Migration | N/A | Built-in Asgaros importer |
Where Jetonomy Excels
Section titled “Where Jetonomy Excels”More Than a Forum
Section titled “More Than a Forum”Asgaros Forum is a focused, traditional forum: categories, forums, sub-forums, topics, and replies. Jetonomy gives you that same forum format plus three more - Stack Overflow style Q&A with accepted answers, idea boards with a Planned / In Progress / Shipped / Declined workflow, and a social activity feed - all in the same community with one set of members.
Self-Moderating Community
Section titled “Self-Moderating Community”Asgaros relies on you (or assigned moderators) to approve content and watch for problems. Jetonomy’s trust level system automatically promotes members as they contribute. New users start restricted; active, helpful members gradually earn the ability to edit, moderate, and manage - without any manual role changes. You set the thresholds once and the community moderates itself.
Voting and Reputation
Section titled “Voting and Reputation”Asgaros has no built-in voting. Jetonomy gives every topic and reply upvote/downvote controls, ranks replies by score, and turns those votes into a reputation score that drives the leaderboard and trust-level promotions.
Performance at Scale
Section titled “Performance at Scale”Both plugins use their own database tables instead of WordPress posts, so both avoid the bloat that slows down CPT-based forums. Jetonomy goes further with cursor-based pagination, smart reply loading on long threads, and denormalized counters, so a space with tens of thousands of topics loads as fast as a small one. See the Scalability page for the details.
Where Asgaros Forum Still Works
Section titled “Where Asgaros Forum Still Works”Asgaros Forum is free, lightweight, and genuinely simple to set up. If you want a basic, traditional forum with no membership gating, no Q&A or idea boards, and a small-to-medium community, Asgaros is a solid, no-cost choice maintained by a dedicated developer.
If you are already running Asgaros and want the additional formats, voting, trust levels, and scalability, Jetonomy includes a built-in Asgaros importer that brings over your forums, sub-forums, topics, and replies.
What’s Next?
Section titled “What’s Next?”- Importing from Asgaros Forum - step-by-step migration guide
- Scalability - how Jetonomy handles large communities