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Zulip
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
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Fathom Analytics
Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.
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phpBB
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
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SEO tools I used to grow my sites to 20k+ visitors/month
It's completely free, and takes just moments to set up - you just need to create an account, and set up keywords for the service to track. When your keywords are mentioned on Reddit, Hackernews, or Lobste.rs, you'll get a tidy little email in your inbox.
- Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
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Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker
Looks as though it's not currently in effect, however?
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761
What a trite cat-and-mouse game, though at least it's entertaining to watch them try.
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Lobste.rs/Hacker News links overlap
> 1. The mods there can "steal" your post and any credit for it, reassigning its authorship to one of their friends. This happens more often than you would think.
Really? As a Lobsters reader, I occasionally review the first page of the Lobsters Moderation Log, which is public for transparency’s sake: https://lobste.rs/moderations. And I’ve never seen any log about a story’s authorship being reassigned, whether for a good reason or a bad one.
According to my reading of the source code of Lobsters (https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/96cf0b32ee81bb1bd7...), such a change would be described in the Moderation Log as “changed user from the_original_user to another_user”. I just searched all moderation logs of story changes in the last two years (39 pages of logs), and no log contains the string “changed user from”. So whether that ever happened, I don’t think Lobsters users have to worry about that happening now.
Or are you also accusing the mods of disguising their reassignment of authorship by deleting stories (and giving a good-sounding reason for the Moderation Log), and then separately having their friend repost the story, because posting a new story doesn’t show up in the Moderation Log? If so, do you have an example?
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Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior
The actual text that all Brave users are seeing when they visit Lobste.rs is:
Blocking a cryptocurrency scam where the Brave browser pretended to be fundraising on behalf of a site without that site's knowledge or consent, then lied about funds being held in escrow and kept them for itself. For details:
https://lobste.rs/c/bwbssx
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45
and
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761
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Ask HN: Any Modern, Serverless Alternatives to Lobste.rs?
Lobste.rs is open source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
But anything more complex than a basic server seems like overkill for a simple text forum.
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I've built a city, now it needs residents
That is basically the idea behind https://lobste.rs/ . There's approximately zero spam or other bad behavior.
You can look at the full user tree (https://lobste.rs/users) and see if there's anyone you know who might be willing to invite you to join.
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Reddit considers search ads, paywalled content for the future
https://lemmy.world/ - Fediverse, you can launch your own instance, people actually use it and content isn't that bad. Not worse than reddit, IMO.
https://tildes.net/ - Like old.reddit - Was made by an ex reddit admin that made AutoModerator that was wrongly axed. Lot of issues with reddit over the years, Huffman is just one of them. Invitation only, so you can't submit content, but if you're happy lurking it's good.
https://lobste.rs/ - Oldschool. Hackery content like here.
Reddit sold all the content to Google for $60million, and Sam Altman's on the board of Reddit. Reddit's run by the same inactive 'power-mods' across all of the main subs.
One of the original creators of Reddit left entirely because of its racism. He was Alexis Ohanian /u/kn0thing so much can speak for itself, your data being taken to feed AIs and then have that same AI ad junk slammed in your face is a hilarious move.
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User returns after 100k-hours ban to continue conversation that got them banned
Maybe something like https://lobste.rs/ where you have to get vouched by another poster before you can comment.
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The primary programming language of Lobsters is Ruby.
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