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I don’t like the flat style comments of sites like PhpBB.

Is there an equivalent open source solution that does reddit style hierarchical comments?

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HackerNews? It was never fully open sourced but there are older versions: http://arclanguage.org/install

lobste.rs maybe?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

Another similar one I saw recently was Postmill [1a][1b] but I have not tried it.

[1a] - https://postmill.xyz/

[1b] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

You may want to take a look on Talkyard:

> A structured discussions platform — brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit/HackerNews, and Disqus blog comments.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702311

Here I extended my simple flask+vue boilerplate https://github.com/void4/hiera

This is relatively easy to do with recursive components in Vue

I don't think rendering is the problem.

[Tildes](https://tildes.net) is open source and does something like that. Not a direct 1:1 to phpBB but more like a cross between old school forums and reddit.

Tildes is a popular-kids-club-invite-only thing and therefore not a replacement for phpBB or Reddit. (Before you say it's open source and you should just run your own copy—they provide no instructions for setting up your own instance. It's apparently not meant to be used by anyone else.)

You're just saying that because you're not cool enough to get an invite.

On the other hand, I'm actually too cool for tildes.

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