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Ask HN: Forum Software Similar to Reddit?
I moderate a couple of mid-size reddit communities. Considering making a forum to direct the community to as a backup. Is there any off the shelf forum software which has an upvote interface for posts and comments the way Reddit does? Major part of what makes Reddit good.
Ideally would be for Wordpress but interested in hearing about any options. The mobile interface would be important as well as desktop.
- LinuxBender 3y agoThis is not an exact answer to your question and I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2a] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on/extension [2b] is required for voting. the linked addon is closer to github style reaction voting Some have suggested that Lemmy [3a][3b][3c] is an alternative to Reddit but I have never tried it. An alternative to Lemmy appears to be Kbin [4a][4b]. I've never run either of those. [Edit] Found another called Strimoid [5a][5b] Excluding all the other ones I found as they require javascript to browse anonymously like Mastodon. [1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill [2a] - https://www.phpbb.com/ https://www.phpbb.com/ [2b] - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=2397266 https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=239726... [3a] - https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ [3b] - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy [3c] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376373 [4a] - https://kbin.social/ https://kbin.social/ [4b] - https://codeberg.org/Kbin/ https://codeberg.org/Kbin/ [5a] - https://strm.pl/ https://strm.pl/ [5b] - https://github.com/Strimoid/Strimoid https://github.com/Strimoid/Strimoid
- helph67 3y agoHere's a couple of links for you to investigate... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368029 https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars https://github.com/GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars
- auxym 3y agoLemmy and kbin are the most similar to Reddit I have seen so far. kbin appears to be very young and beta-grade at best, though under active development.
- lemming 3y agoLobste.rs is open source (https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about), and they say that the software is being used to run some sister sites (list here: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki). I'm not sure how easy it is to just grab and run, though.