Alternatives

Products that do what Free Forum does

free forum - public your mind

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Discourse▲287
A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.
2015
2OF
Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go▲226
2017 · goodoldweb.com
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Slack Chats▲362
A place to discover and join private Slack groups
2014
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Slackin▲293
Create your own public Slack chat community
2015
5
Gitter▲131
free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub
2014
6
Muut▲93
Forums and commenting re-imagined
2014
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Thoughts▲91
Share your thoughts with the world, anonymously
2022
8
Forum▲101
Dedicated space for Facebook groups
May 2026 · apps.apple.com
9ZA
Zsync, a Reddit Alternative with the Goal to Reward Quality Comments▲207
I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz
10HC
HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN▲175
2018 · hackerforums.co
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Open Cult▲95
A place for people with common interests to meet IRL.
2018
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ChannelSync▲84
Create an online forum with your Discord Server content.
2021
13AD
Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)▲72
2017 · hashtags.chat
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Reddit Under 100▲112
Stop wasting time on Reddit threads where you won't be seen
2016
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TenTwenty▲87
Your local, anonymous message board
2014
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prompts.chat▲63
Collect, organize, and share AI prompts. Free & Open Source.
Dec 2025 · prompts.chat
17FW
Forum where posts slowly disappear unless interacted with▲6
I'm always nervous to post online (this is my very first HN post), so I built an anonymous forum where posts are automatically deleted after 24 hours. Every upvote or comment resets the clock. Some things I like about this concept: - The sheer volume of information on the internet is overwhelming - disappearing.chat keeps that volume low - Unpopular content slowly fades away, so you can visually watch bad takes disappear - Content is always fresh because even popular things will eventually stop getting interaction - Takes the pressure off that your content is going to stick around forever…
2024 · disappearing.chat
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Tell Me Tru▲84
Get anonymous replies on your question. No login required.
2015
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Sparq▲79
A community for gamers
2017
20
Free My Play▲58
A Hacker News for freemium games
2014
21FA
FORUM – An alternative to Twitter▲5
2016 · play.google.com
22AM
A minimalist, no-clout social network with chronological feed▲5
TLDR: I built a "quick and dirty " private social network for my friends, posted on Reddit and HN, got some interest so now have built it properly along with my brother. site link: https://intimost.com/login/ demo creds: [email protected] Demo123! Full version: I needed a social network where I can just send updates and nothing else. So I built it, my friends liked and now I have built it "for the world". Everything is private by default. - Text-only updates - No likes. Only views to acknowledge a post - [in development] Comments are private between the poster and…
Oct 2025
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Bad Community▲18
Built different
Nov 2025 · bad.community
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unbannable▲2
Reddit mods have too much power , this site is for everyone
20d ago · unbannable-app.web.app

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