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Ask HN: What HN-like forum software is substack using?

10 points by rsync 7y ago

I was recently introduced to substack[1] and was immediately impressed by the threaded discussion software that they are using. Here is an example: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/politics-is-a-jealous-god/comments What forum software are they using ? Is it homegrown/in-house ? Other than lobste.rs, it is the nicest clone of HN I have ever seen ... [1] https://substack.com/

sk221 7y ago
It looks like it's built in house.
lykr0n 7y ago
My money is on in-house. Express based webapp on Heroku. If it's a plugin, I would start looking in NPM
tjansen 7y ago
Check their jobs page: "We use: Node, Express, React, Postgres, Heroku" https://substack.breezy.hr/p/395577ab518c-full-stack-engineer https://substack.breezy.hr/p/395577ab518c-full-stack-enginee...
ofrzeta 7y ago
What I can see is not that different from Disqus that has a free alternative called Isso https://posativ.org/isso/ https://posativ.org/isso/
cjbest 7y ago
One of the founders of Substack here. It's built in house. Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure I'd call it a clone of HN, but that's definitely one of our influences :)