Vanilla Forums
| Vanilla Forums | ||
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| 422 | 5 | |
| 15,552 | 2,936 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 0.0 | 4.2 | |
| almost 8 years ago | 23 days ago | |
| Python | PHP | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Everyone Uses Postgres… But Why?
Reddit has over half a billion accounts as of 2024. To support that, they use PostgreSQL as a ThingDB (sort of key-value store) and as a regular SQL database. See more in their write-up.
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Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?
Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
- The boiling frog of digital freedom
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Karma, votes, and diminishing returns
While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :
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[reddit self-host] Thrift issues?
I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.
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Does anyone else just feel sad about all of this?
Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/
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Delv guy here: Sharing the mockup
Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)
- Users in r/harrypotter lashing out as mods ignore community vote
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Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform
Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Keep the clients, make a new backend?
There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Vanilla Forums
- Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?
- Are Vanilla Forums OSS having problems?
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Best way to create a community website
For something simple, I'd look into bbpress. For something more complex (but that can still integrate with WordPress, check out Xenforo (my favorite) or Vanilla.
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
(Not sure if the latest version supports digest emails though)
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
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16/30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic).
We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/
What are some alternatives?
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
BuddyPress - BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web