[chptung]

Hi there!

I'm one of the co-founders of Threadbase, and this question comes up a lot. Discourse is a very good forum software, but it lacks the upvote mechanics from communities like Reddit, Hacker News, or Product Hunt that makes for really sticky communities. We've seen that upvoting allows posters to feel good about "winning" for the day and votes allow lurkers to feel like their contribution is changing the community in the way they want.

As for how Threadbase is different than a subreddit, Reddit is a great content discovery platform that mostly monetizes through ads. Threadbase is made for community owners who want to own their communities. By own, we mean they can customize the look and feel with different pre-built templates, put the community on their domain (no more /r/politics but instead politics.com), and they can either remove ads entirely from their communities or show their own ads with a Google Adsense pixel to monetize their community. We also have more ideas to allow community owners to make more from their communities (e.g. private/registration-only communities, marketplace to sell custom themes, etc.)

Our hope is that communities owners can turn their community side hustles into their full time job.

Hope that answers your question but if you have any other questions, let me know!

[hjek]

Interesting. Does your ranking algorithm work like Reddit[0] or HN[1] or is it something different?

[0]: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algo...

[1]: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...

[qz_]

I see, thanks!