Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years

I am currently working on setting up a non-profit and plan to operate the platform just like Wikimedia runs Wikipedia. I see non-profit as the only viable, sustainable alternative in the long run. I am planting a seed, hoping others will join and help me build it, and soon enough enable me to step down. I have a full time job on the side and a family to take care of, and running this as a one-man-show is not an option.<p>Tech stack:<p>keycloak (auth) dot net core 6 typescript + react react router 6 bulma<p>I plan to open source both the backend API and the frontend client.<p>API documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.flingup.com&#x2F;swagger&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.flingup.com&#x2F;swagger&#x2F;index.html</a><p>A penny for your thoughts? Comments?

&gt; Do not submit links or content with links to websites or businesses you own or are associated with.<p>&gt; You may only submit content to which you are the copyright owner.<p>Interesting pair of rules!

I will support any platform to replace reddit that is 1) completely open source, 2) community driven, 3) moderators are held accountable by the communities they govern, and 4) not ad supported.<p>Social bookmarking is something the internet should have as part of it&#x27;s infrastructure.<p>Unfortunately the fediverse face-planted in it&#x27;s time to shine. The infra is the hard part and that all has to be controlled by the same org.

A lot of good advice can be found here with how Hacker News does things.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23439437">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23439437</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;hacker-news-undocumented&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;hacker-news-undocumented&#x2F;blob&#x2F;m...</a>

Looks pretty good and a non-profit seems perfect for something like this.<p>I do have to say, I really dislike the card design that seems pretty much ubiquitous at this point. By introducing a border, you need to add a bunch of padding and then margins. Between two titles, you have padding (from the upper card), border, margin, border(lower card), padding. It&#x27;s so much whitespace!<p>How do comments work? Can you have infinitely nested comment threads? If so, I&#x27;m not sure your API will scale? Do you need to fetch replies for each comment recursively? That&#x27;ll be a pretty bad experience, since you need to wait for one comment level to load before you can fetch the next one. But maybe I&#x27;m misunderstanding the API docs.

The UI is fantastic. Sleek and modern appearance with snappy response and pragmatic layout. Just made c&#x2F;nba!<p>How do I follow a particular community?

Tried to open it, it kept undefinitely in a loading animation, opened the web inspector, reloaded it and there only shows a Cloudflare message error saying that they blocked me from visiting it.

There&#x27;s currently an oddly similarly-titled post on the frontpage:<p>Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years<p>Even the apostrophe from &quot;I&#x27;ve&quot; is missing in both. Odd.

This is the most seamless Reddit alternative I&#x27;ve seen today. And it&#x27;s already getting a bunch of posts. I like it.

Why has everyone around here been writing a reddit-like platform for years? And aren&#x27;t there a ton of those already? I used ieddit for a while (wow, correction) it still seems to be alive, www.ieddit.com.

I like this. A nice QoL improvement would probably be to add an alternate card view where images&#x2F;videos are expanded by default; that&#x27;s usually how I browse Reddit.<p>I&#x27;d be curious to see if the &quot;no pornography&quot; rule hinders growth at all. While I don&#x27;t have actual numbers, I know from personal and second-hand experience that quite a lot of Reddit&#x27;s (or the internet&#x27;s in general) traffic is porn-related.<p>In any case, I hope this platform takes off and succeeds. I think a non-profit alternative to Reddit would be awesome.

Tried to register, got hit with a Cloudflare error.<p>Error 1015 You are being rate limited<p>The owner of this website (realm.flingup.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.<p>Refreshing took me to an error page, which then tried to send me to:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost:3000&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost:3000&#x2F;</a><p>Thing is, the platform looks like a great start, so I hope this can be fixed quickly!

Looks nice, but I can&#x27;t register because Cloudflare hates Firefox users.<p>(I was able to register an account using Chrome)

Another Linux Firefox user chiming in to say I can&#x27;t use the site. Permanent loading animation, developer menu reveals a hidden &quot;You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.&quot; message that isn&#x27;t appearing, even though JavaScript is enabled.

I like the snappy UI, but I think it needs a search box for communities&#x2F;posts at least.

Title seems oddly similar to another Reddit-like post from today….<p>Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;non.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;non.io</a>)

This one seems nice. It&#x27;s better than the other alternatives that were posted here.<p>Probably needs a bit more modern UI but it&#x27;s functional.

I don&#x27;t use mobile, so I can&#x27;t comment on that, but I can compare to old.reddit (the classic good version).<p>Overall it is decent, but there is still plenty of work,<p>Here are my comments, ignore if you don&#x27;t agree.<p>----<p>Content loading: Initial Page<p>old.reddit.com loads fast all content, without javascript. flingup.com instead is stuck on 5 blue bars bouncing because no actual content is loaded on first page. It is all loaded on some delay for some reason. Here is a thing: render content on backend, and if it is expensive, render it and cache it.<p>The only good thing is that flingup uses own subdomains, unlike reddit that uses other domains like redditmedia.com &#x2F; redd.it &#x2F; reditstatic.com . I hate companies that use alternative TLD because it is hard to discern if domain is real, or used by scammers.<p>Additionally, only 2 javascripts are needed to load flingup, and they are hosted from realm.flingup ... the other 4 seem to be some form of bloat. Basicaly, there is an iframe that loads something from realm.flingup on port 8443 and this iframe loads two javascripts. If these are so critical, why are they loaded through an iframe? why port 8443? why realm.flingup ? Sigh.<p>the good part, despite flingup being js based, it supports middle click &#x2F; control click on links correctly, unlike plenty SPA. But not all items, can&#x27;t middle click to see user profile, instead user has to normal click, which does some odd useless popup with an actual button to see user profile.<p>----<p>Content look: information density at 30%<p>old.reddit.com gives me 29 items I can see concurrently on my screen. Flingup only shows 9.<p>----<p>Content look: almost no comments loaded (25% of 40)<p>I will ignore the fact that most items are just links, not discussions. But lets use the top link &quot;migrating from reddit&quot; as example. It has some odd 40 comments, but only like 10 are loaded, because the remaining are hidden behind a series of &#x27;there are 3 replies&#x27;.<p>Contrast this with old.reddit that will load 500 comments, up to ?8? levels deep (I counted up to 8, maybe more?) with a button to &#x27;load more comments&#x27; either in a thread, or at bottom.<p>Paradoxically, my other complaint is no option to collapse uninterested thread, or to link to specific reply (aka permalink)<p>-----<p>Content: tooltips missing<p>I dislike the &#x27;2 days ago&#x27; as it doesn&#x27;t say when. old.reddit provides actual time of a comment &#x2F; post when user hovers over &#x27;2 days ago&#x27;. Flingup doesn&#x27;t.<p>ps: fling sounds like a dating app.<p>Cheers

Do you plan to add downvotes?

Loads pretty fast from Europe right now and UX looks reddit-like.<p>Good first impression.

&gt; Become a Flingon today!<p>I did! Looks slick. I hope you’re ready for the moderation gauntlet.

&gt;&gt; You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.<p>Sigh...

Has anyone found the easter egg yet? ;)

This is good

Is it connected with fediverse?