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Growth · July 2, 2016

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GrokBB – My Reddit Alternative

https://www.grokbb.com I have spent the last year building GrokBB, a Reddit alternative, and I was wondering what you guys think? The site is not a news aggregator, like Reddit, but built more along the lines of traditional bulletin boards. Its focus will be on supporting and promoting niche communities, by giving them proper tools to manage their users and organize / produce high quality, original content. There is no voting system, and popularity is determined by what users actually do on the site. As well, there is a way for the moderators in a community to promote valuable…

GrokBB – My Reddit Alternative launched on July 2, 2016 with 7 votes, #1,848 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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https://www.grokbb.com I have spent the last year building GrokBB, a Reddit alternative, and I was wondering what you guys think? The site is not a news aggregator, like Reddit, but built more along the lines of traditional bulletin boards. Its focus will be on supporting and promoting niche communities, by…

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