ferg1e/comment-castles on Hacker News

…multiple you can go bui[text here] for example, which would be bold, underline and italic text. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2025-07-27 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

…on my Reddit clone [1] a little bit. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/stepping-stone-dungeon [1] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2025-01-26 · in Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

…PostgreSQL - start the Redis server - start PostgreSQL, create a database and run structure.sql: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles/blob/master/sql/st... - get all the source code for the actual app (ie. the code from the comment…

comment by codingclaws · 2024-12-26 · in Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025

Comment castles: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles (I'm the developer)

comment by codingclaws · 2024-12-26 · in Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025

…like internet forum [0]. It's Node/Postgres with a vanilla SSR front-end. It's not serverless. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2024-10-05 · in Ask HN: Any Modern, Serverless Alternatives to Lobste.rs?

…login. Separately, it also has a JSON API that uses OAuth 2 auth code flow with PKCE [1]. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles [1] https://www.commentcastles.org/api#api-user-authentication

comment by codingclaws · 2024-10-05 · in Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

Reddit clone: https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles https://www.commentcastles.org For moderation, a user whitelist sits in front of the typical content blacklist, which introduces some interesting properties.

comment by codingclaws · 2023-10-12 · in Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

My reddit clone called Comment Castles: https://www.commentcastles.org https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles If you're curious the stack is node/postgres and vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the front-end. It has an OAuth 2 JSON API.

comment by codingclaws · 2023-08-29 · in Ask HN: Post Your Startup

…non-federating options are: StackerNews https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news Comment Castles https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles freedit https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit There are lots more, some are great some not.…

comment by friend_and_foe · 2023-06-15 · in Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

…allowed). I do want to build good custom search but haven't really started on that task yet. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles [1] https://www.peachesnstink.com

comment by codingclaws · 2023-06-07 · in Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?

…secret (it's recommended to not use a client secret for SPAs and native smart phone apps). [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2023-04-26 · in Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

…site. I am the founder/creator of Comment Castles [0] which is an open source reddit/HN clone. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2022-08-02 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2022)

Yeah, I've been working on a Reddit/HN clone called Comment Castles [0] for a couple years. [0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

comment by codingclaws · 2022-07-16 · in Ask HN: Anyone have any cool Open Source Projects and looking for contributors?

…trying new things and for moderation I've settled on self-moderation using whitelists of users. [1] https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink

comment by codingclaws · 2022-01-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

…parens at the end of a URL. Edit: Removed a test link. Our current "bbcode" url regex is here: https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink/blob/master/views/... Looks like there are no parens at all. Maybe it's an easy update.

comment by codingclaws · 2021-09-27 · in Avalanche protocol is alien technology

You may be interested in my open source forum: https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink It's basically an experimental communication platform. Right now I am building Internet forum style communication but I want to expand to other…

comment by codingclaws · 2021-08-30 · in Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink

comment by codingclaws · 2021-08-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?

…moderators. Instead we show nothing by default and users must whitelist other users. - Open source: https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink - This probably sounds like a crazy site but it appears to be working and I've had some nice…

comment by codingclaws · 2021-08-15 · in Ask HN: Are there any good discussion forums left?

…the nested comments. Building the moderation system may be a large task. Here's my ongoing attempt: https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink

comment by codingclaws · 2021-07-19 · in Ask HN: How hard would it be to create a website like HN?

…in the correct "vertical" order to display chronologically. [1] https://www.peachesnstink.com [2] https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink/blob/master/db/ind... [3] https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink/blob/master/db/ind...

comment by codingclaws · 2021-06-25 · in Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL (2020)

…is Node/Postgres, 100% SSR, everything works with front-end JS turned off. It's open source: https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink

comment by codingclaws · 2021-06-11 · in Show HN: Whitelist-Moderated Reddit/HN Clone