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Felt I should share this. There are a number of really good established alternatives with great mods and admins for those who wish to branch out and check out s
by emdi81 11y ago
Felt I should share this. There are a number of really good established alternatives with great mods and admins for those who wish to branch out and check out something new:
www.snapzu.com - Excellent content and friendly community. Has a unique XP/Leveling system and ability to post content into multiple subs.
www.empeopled.com - Gives you more influence based on the amount of up-votes you've received. Use influence to steer future of the site.
www.theneeds.com - Good content but a lot of it looks automated, possibly using bots. No discussion so you lose a lot of that community feel.
www.hubski.com - Classic alternative, been kicking it around for 4-5 years, but still little activity. Community is small but nice.
www.spreadit.it - A dark themed reddit alternative that is similar to reddit and easy to use. Content and community is lacking however.
Note: I didn't mention the voat boat because I felt they have a little too much hate/racism on there.
- coolnow 11y agoReddit still has those subs about beating women and lynching black people, right? Get over yourself, voat is better than every single example you listed.
- emdi81 11y agoYou keep telling yourself that, maybe some day the truth fairy will come along and grant you your wish.
- JonTarg 11y agoI thought the super secret internet clubs era was over. How old are you? Most people on voat cross browse. There's even a plugin to put both aggregators in the same page. I don't get where this idea that voat is that "den of pedos and fat haters" is coming from. Anyway, +1 for Snapzu.
- omni 11y agoI have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.
- pests 11y agoVoat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.
- thaw12 11y agoWait, I thought it ran on a completely different codebase? It's hung from an ASP.NET framework running on an IIS server. https://github.com/voat/voat https://github.com/voat/voat
- pixl97 11y agoTrying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.
- pests 11y agoWhile totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoI think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future. That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?
- davidgerard 11y agoIt's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.
- pests 11y agoI think I stand corrected. Thanks.
- davidgerard 11y ago
- Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 11y agoThanks, I just got an invite for snapzu and it does look really nice.
- anthony_romeo 11y agoI really like the design on Hubski. I'll have to try that out.
- im3w1l 11y agoThanks for sharing those! Snapzu gave me a db-error. Bad first impression... spreadit address should be spreadit.io. Hubski was the one I had the best impression of.
- betenoire 11y agowww.metafilter.com it's not free, but that's not a bad thing
- glomph 11y agoThey also pay their mods right?
- nilnull 11y agoAnother new forum site is www.yannect.com. Check out https://www.yannect.com/us/tx/austin https://www.yannect.com/us/tx/austin