Ask HN: Forum Software Similar to Reddit?

• Postmill

  16 - -

I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on is required for voting.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

[2] - https://www.phpbb.com/

• phpBB

  60 1,781 9.7 PHP

  phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.

  

I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on is required for voting.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

[2] - https://www.phpbb.com/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Clone-Wars

  46 26,813 7.1

  100+ open-source clones of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Whatsapp, Youtube etc. See source code, demo links, tech stack, github stars.

• Lobsters

  264 3,932 9.5 Ruby

  Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

  

Lobste.rs is open source (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). I'm not sure how easy it is to just grab and run, though.

Suggest a related project