MOmooreds·Feb 19, 2018Submission
The best Rails forums engine ever
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The best Rails forums engine ever.
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What it is
The best Rails forums engine ever.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2016-04-04 08:36:28 UTC to 2018-02-19 16:56:48 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesI guess this is as good a time as any to mention that something like that exists (and to toot our team's work over the years):
I started the project years ago and in the last few have gotten really great support from glebm and some others to get it to the point where it's a really lovely, stable, and fast piece of work.
We consider it the best Ruby/Rails-based alternative to Discourse out there (as an aside - wewere honored that Ryan Bigg would point people our way when he stopped maintaining Forem[1])
You said:
√ I would like to see forum software that has the feel of classic forum software (like Flux)
√ not in PHP
√ that is server-rendered
√ with a very minimal default theme (no animation)
√ and minimal JavaScript
√ and that has many of the modern features of Discourse.
I think those check out. In any case I sugg
Read the rest
est you check out the website[2], the repo[3], and the demo[4].
[1]: https://github.com/rubysherpas/forem#no-longer-maintained
[2]: https://thredded.org
[3]: https://github.com/thredded/thredded
[4]: https://thredded.org/thredded/
> The "front page" with the list of existing boards is particularly bad
A possible solution:
https://github.com/thredded/thredded/pull/525
What do you think?
In Show HN: Thredded Forums EngineThank you for your feedback!
> It has a lot of whitespace [...]
Whitespace can be reduced across the board by adjusting a variable:
https://github.com/thredded/thredded/blob/1a60bcc7618270afeb...
For the homepage, I'm going to try removing the vertical spacing between the cards.
> on a desktop [...] maybe put the name besides the post instead of on top
Definitely going to try that!
> A lot of elements have dynamic positions (e.g. the date, the author) which makes it quite hard to quickly scan the overviews for them.
I didn't realize there is a use-case for scanning through these. No good ideas yet on how to improve this.
> Image support?
By default only externally referenced images are supported, but integrating with third-party uploading services is easy. For example, here is how to do it with Shubox.io:
https://shubox.io/blog/2016/08/05
Read the rest
http://www.discourse.org/
https://flaskbb.org/
https://github.com/rafalp/Misago
http://spirit-project.com/
https://github.com/thredded/thredded
In Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for DevelopersYou might like Thredded then. It is somewhat similar to Discourse, but runs just off the database alone, including full text search, and it is a Rails Engine so can be seamlessly interated into an existing Rails app. https://github.com/thredded/thredded
In Show HN: Natika – Simple PHP Forum for Developers