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Ask HN: Forum Software Similar to Reddit?

13 points by graeme ↗ HN
I moderate a couple of mid-size reddit communities. Considering making a forum to direct the community to as a backup. Is there any off the shelf forum software which has an upvote interface for posts and comments the way Reddit does? Major part of what makes Reddit good.

Ideally would be for Wordpress but interested in hearing about any options. The mobile interface would be important as well as desktop.

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LinuxBender
This is not an exact answer to your question and I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2a] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on/extension [2b] is required for voting. the linked addon is closer to github style reaction voting

Some have suggested that Lemmy [3a][3b][3c] is an alternative to Reddit but I have never tried it. An alternative to Lemmy appears to be Kbin [4a][4b]. I've never run either of those.

[Edit] Found another called Strimoid [5a][5b] Excluding all the other ones I found as they require javascript to browse anonymously like Mastodon.

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

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

[2b] - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=456&t=239726...

[3a] - https://join-lemmy.org/

[3b] - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[3c] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376373

[4a] - https://kbin.social/

[4b] - https://codeberg.org/Kbin/

[5a] - https://strm.pl/

[5b] - https://github.com/Strimoid/Strimoid

auxym
Lemmy and kbin are the most similar to Reddit I have seen so far.

kbin appears to be very young and beta-grade at best, though under active development.