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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by emdi81 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:18PM (#9822831)
Felt I should share this. There are a number of really good established alternatives with great mods and admins for those who wish to branch out and check out something new:

www.snapzu.com - Excellent content and friendly community. Has a unique XP/Leveling system and ability to post content into multiple subs.

www.empeopled.com - Gives you more influence based on the amount of up-votes you've received. Use influence to steer future of the site.

www.theneeds.com - Good content but a lot of it looks automated, possibly using bots. No discussion so you lose a lot of that community feel.

www.hubski.com - Classic alternative, been kicking it around for 4-5 years, but still little activity. Community is small but nice.

www.spreadit.it - A dark themed reddit alternative that is similar to reddit and easy to use. Content and community is lacking however.

Note: I didn't mention the voat boat because I felt they have a little too much hate/racism on there.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by betenoire on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:38AM (#9823503)
www.metafilter.com it's not free, but that's not a bad thing
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by glomph on Friday July 03, 2015 @06:31AM (#9824663)
They also pay their mods right?
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by im3w1l on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:56PM (#9823360)
Thanks for sharing those!

Snapzu gave me a db-error. Bad first impression...

spreadit address should be spreadit.io.

Hubski was the one I had the best impression of.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by nilnull on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:41AM (#9823906)
Another new forum site is www.yannect.com. Check out https://www.yannect.com/us/tx/austin
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:56PM (#9822963)
Thanks, I just got an invite for snapzu and it does look really nice.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by anthony_romeo on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:02PM (#9823177)
I really like the design on Hubski. I'll have to try that out.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by coolnow on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:41PM (#9822916)
Reddit still has those subs about beating women and lynching black people, right? Get over yourself, voat is better than every single example you listed.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by omni on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:00PM (#9823171)
I have yet to even see what Voat looks like because every time there's a Reddit event and someone mentions it, Voat is completely unresponsive.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:48PM (#9823338)
Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by thaw12 on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:40AM (#9823517)
Wait, I thought it ran on a completely different codebase? It's hung from an ASP.NET framework running on an IIS server.

https://github.com/voat/voat

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:04AM (#9823792)
I think I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pixl97 on Friday July 03, 2015 @01:24AM (#9823673)
Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by mcintyre1994 on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:10AM (#9823812)
I think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future.

That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by davidgerard on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:41AM (#9824111)
It's possible to scale, but you have to think about scaling ahead of time. Voat actually didn't and are now scrambling.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pests on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:04AM (#9823796)
While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by davidgerard on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:37AM (#9824093)
No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by emdi81 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @10:00PM (#9822982)
You keep telling yourself that, maybe some day the truth fairy will come along and grant you your wish.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by JonTarg on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:37PM (#9823297)
I thought the super secret internet clubs era was over. How old are you? Most people on voat cross browse. There's even a plugin to put both aggregators in the same page. I don't get where this idea that voat is that "den of pedos and fat haters" is coming from.

Anyway, +1 for Snapzu.

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