Ask HN: What HN-like forum software is substack using?

10 points by rsync 6y ago ↗ HN

I was recently introduced to substack[1] and was immediately impressed by the threaded discussion software that they are using.

Here is an example:

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/politics-is-a-jealous-god/comments

What forum software are they using ? Is it homegrown/in-house ? Other than lobste.rs, it is the nicest clone of HN I have ever seen ...

[1] https://substack.com/

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sk221 6y ago ↗

It looks like it's built in house.

lykr0n 6y ago ↗

My money is on in-house.

Express based webapp on Heroku. If it's a plugin, I would start looking in NPM

Check their jobs page: "We use: Node, Express, React, Postgres, Heroku"

What I can see is not that different from Disqus that has a free alternative called Isso https://posativ.org/isso/

cjbest 6y ago ↗

One of the founders of Substack here.

It's built in house. Thank you for the kind words. I'm not sure I'd call it a clone of HN, but that's definitely one of our influences :)