Lobsters
Computing-focused link aggregation and discussion site
Lobsters is the open-source software behind the computing-focused link aggregation community of the same name. It offers tag-based stories, threaded comments, and an invitation-based membership model.
Key features
- Tag-based story feed
- Threaded comments
- Invitation tree
- Hotness ranking
Strengths
- Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
- Active community (4.8k GitHub stars)
- Written in Ruby
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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