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Something Awful
Who runs Something Awful, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online discussion forums alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- MetaFilter
Measured from Something Awful’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Something Awful01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Something Awful
Something Awful somethingawful.com
Wikidata: comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Something Awful tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Something Awful’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Something Awful
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Something Awful, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 MetaFilter metafilter.com
general-interest community weblog
Very close - 02
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close - 03
Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
Very close - 04
Korean language website in Paraguay
Very close - 05 Todayhumor todayhumor.co.kr
South Korean website and internet forum
Very close - 06
Главная - прикольные картинки, мемы, комиксы, гифки на JoyReactor
Главная страница JoyReactor - это смешные картинки, арты, игровой юмор и гифки (с котами). Но стоит копнуть чуть глубже, и можно найти больше постов и разделов, интересных именно вам, и подписаться на них. Полезно каждый день поглядывать в разделы Тренды и Наши любимые теги на главной странице, можно повстречать много неожиданного и, как минимум, занятного.
Very close - 07
English-language imageboard website
Very close - 08
## CONNECTING HEARTS! 디시인사이드입니다. ##
국내 최대 인터넷 커뮤니티 포털이자 인터넷 트렌드의 중심, 디시인사이드입니다. 실시간 베스트 등의 갤러리 커뮤니티 서비스를 제공합니다.
Very close - 09
DogDrip.Net 개드립
유머, 이슈, 정보 커뮤니티. 개드립
Very close - 10
인스티즈(instiz)
많은 연예계 이슈가 여기서 시작! 다양한 소식을 인스티즈에서 모두 만나보세요
Very close - 11
9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
Very close - 12
Taiwanese ACG Internet forum
Very close - 13
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close - 14 Very close
- 15
Explore - SoFurry
Discover artwork, stories, music, games and more from the furry community. Join SoFurry and share your creations.
Very close - 16
FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
Very close - 17 Very close
- 18
American entertainment and social media website
Very close - 19
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close - 20
클리앙
모두의 커뮤니티 클리앙
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Something Awful’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Something Awful uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Something Awful adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Something Awful’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ad793e5462b9-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9GcKHBlPiK86Tx3wiFVKdSsY6JzmxIcR2XJj2g-wdY8
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on somethingawful.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on somethingawful.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on somethingawful.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on somethingawful.com 4/20
- jQuery 4/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on somethingawful.com 4/20
- SendGrid · not on somethingawful.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on somethingawful.com 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on somethingawful.com 2/20
- nginx · not on somethingawful.com 2/20
- PHP · not on somethingawful.com 2/20
- Taboola · not on somethingawful.com 2/20