[emdi81]

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.

[betenoire]

www.metafilter.com it's not free, but that's not a bad thing

[glomph]

They also pay their mods right?

[im3w1l]

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.

[nilnull]

Another new forum site is www.yannect.com. Check out https://www.yannect.com/us/tx/austin

[Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0]

Thanks, I just got an invite for snapzu and it does look really nice.

[anthony_romeo]

I really like the design on Hubski. I'll have to try that out.

[coolnow]

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.

[omni]

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.

[pests]

Voat runs a modified version of the reddit open source code.

[thaw12]

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

[pests]

I think I stand corrected. Thanks.

[pixl97]

Trying to grow a site to Reddits size on IIS? That won't end well.

[mcintyre1994]

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?

[pests]

While totally forgetting sites like StackOverflow use IIS.

[davidgerard]

No, it's a clone, written from scratch in C#.

[emdi81]

You keep telling yourself that, maybe some day the truth fairy will come along and grant you your wish.

[JonTarg]

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.