Our Reddit
Communities with threaded discussion, ranked by votes.
Our Reddit is community discussion you run yourself. Start a named community, post a thread with a title and a body, and reply in a nested thread underneath. Posts and comments can be voted up or down, and the sum of those votes ranks what rises — so the discussion that helped people is what a reader sees first, not just what is newest.
A community is a container: it holds threads, and a thread holds nested comments, and every one of those is an activity in the same content model your wall already uses. What makes this app this app is the vote — a signed judgement, up or down, kept as a row per person rather than a counter, so a change of mind moves the number instead of doubling it. The ranking is the sum of those votes, with the newest breaking ties, so a fresh thread with no votes is not buried under an old one with none. There is no karma score and no moderator list: a single install has one owner and no strangers, so a reputation economy would be machinery for a population this product does not have.
Step by step
How to start your first community
Every step is the real one in your own install. The community, the thread and the votes are all rows in your own database.
- STEP 01
Open Our Reddit
From your workspace, open Our Reddit. It shows the community directory, and the form to start a community.
- STEP 02
Start a community
Give it a name and a line about what it is for. It gets its own page at its own address, and it appears in the directory.
- STEP 03
Post a thread
Open the community and write a post with a title and a body. The title is the headline in the list; the body is read inside the thread.
- STEP 04
Reply in the thread
Open the thread and add a comment, or reply to a comment. Replies nest, so a conversation reads in order rather than as a flat list.
- STEP 05
Vote what helps rise
Upvote or downvote a post or a comment. The score moves, and the community's list reorders on it — so the discussion that helped people is the one a reader finds first.
What it does
Communities, threads and an honest ranking
Discussion in named places
A community is a container with a name and a purpose, and discussion happens inside it. That is the shape a single feed cannot give you — a place to go for one subject, separate from everything else on the install.
Threads that nest
A post holds comments, and a comment holds replies, to as deep as the conversation goes. Each is an activity in the same content model as your wall, so the threading is one system rather than a second one bolted on.
Votes, and what they mean
An up or down vote is a signed judgement, not a like. It is kept as a row per person, so changing your mind moves the score instead of adding a second vote, and the number the ranking uses cannot drift under two people voting at once.
A ranking you can see
Posts are ordered by the sum of their votes, with the newest breaking ties — so a new thread is not buried under an old one with none. The number it ranks on is shown beside the post; there is no hidden algorithm deciding what you see.
A moderator can archive a community
Hosting discussion makes it your problem, so a community can be archived. It leaves the directory and stops taking new posts, but every thread already in it stays readable — archiving is reversible and nothing is destroyed.
Stored on your own server
Communities, threads, votes and comments are rows in your own database, on your own disk. Nothing is sent to a third party and there is no account to create anywhere else.
Questions
Questions people ask
Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.
What is Our Reddit?
How is a community different from my feed?
What is the difference between a vote and a like?
How is the list of posts ordered?
Can a community be removed?
Where is all of this stored?
Our Reddit is ready on your install
It is part of Social Jinni and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.