Alternatives

Products that do what RootBadger – a modern Usenet-style discussion platfor does

Check out RootBadger. A nice alternative to Reddit

1. 1GC
   Gitter – Chat for GitHub▲243

   2013 · gitter.im

2. 2OA
   Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs▲351

   2019 · git.sr.ht

3. 3
   Discourse▲287

   A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.

   2015

4. 4
   DeckHub▲221

   A TweetDeck style desktop client for GitHub.

   2016

5. 5AD
   Anonymous Discussion Platform For Any Topic (think Reddit meets Slack)▲72

   2017 · hashtags.chat

6. 6FD
   Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software▲163

   2015 · flarum.org

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   Comit for Reddit▲89

   A better way to browse reddit.

   2016

8. 8CL
   Commento: Lightweight, open source, tracking-free alternative to Disqus▲233

   2017 · github.com

9. 9RG
   Reddit Grid – A better way to browse subreddits that are very visual▲217

   2017 · redditgrid.com

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    Discourse▲43

    New open source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.

    2014

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    Suggestion Sam▲104

    A modern day suggestion box for Slack

    2016

12. 12
    Spacy.io▲86

    Semantic analysis of the Reddit hivemind

    2016

13. 13
    Developer Ipsum▲110

    Lorem for nerds

    2021

14. 14CI
    CommentBox.io – a responsible alternative to Disqus▲64

    2018 · commentbox.io

15. 15
    Gitter▲131

    free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub

    2014

16. 16TA
    TinyPress – A GitHub Blogging Platform▲93

    2015 · tinypress.co

17. 17
    Linkversity▲44

    Onboard people to the codebase quickly

    2025

18. 18
    Frankly▲101

    A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.

    2016

19. 19PG
    PolyBrowser goes open source on GitHub. Let’s re-imagine web browsing▲47

    2015 · github.com

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    Fosshub▲79

    An open source for free and open source tools

    2015

21. 21
    Flowhub▲85

    Let's Make Code More Playful (Beta Open)

    2014

22. 22OB
    Openblog – Blogging with GitHub Issues▲78

    2016 · github.com

23. 23IS
    I started a repo for sharing algorithm implementations▲52

    Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.

    2013 · github.com

24. 24DA
    “Discuss” – A 100% serverless forum software▲7

    2016 · github.com

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