This actually got a writeup in Hackernews back in the day

I don't know why anyone is surprised. The edgy subreddits (many of which were toxic cesspools) all warned everyone as they got banned, but people cheered as it happened. Finally the baddies were gone. It was never going to be limited to just them.

On another note, I do not understand why all these banned subreddits that try to migrate to their own site always try to create their own software. the_donald did it famously and created an absolute clusterfrick of a website (and community). There are so many options, there's open source old reddit, there's federating varieties like Lemmy and littr.me (a good choice if you want to run a single community), why reinvent the wheel? If you want to move to an environment like reddit where everyone can interact, but give community moderators full control over their communities, a federated architecture is the way to go, and there are a couple of solutions that work out of the box.

They haven't - they're using https://github.com/Aevann1/rDrama which has already been used successfully for /r/drama's offsite community. They've worked directly with rdrama's developer and community lead.

Well that's interesting, I have to take a look at the codebase and see what it is all about.

Edit:looked at it, it looks like a Ruqqus fork built for single community servers. https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus

Looks like pretty good software, from a first glance it looks like it has more sensible UX than Ruqqus.

>looks like it has more sensible UX

Further evidence of hackernewses profound r-slurdation