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Comment by julianlam | Hacker News Reader

I wonder what forum stack they use...

Asking as someone who works with forum software on a daily basis.

Judging by the network tab, it looks like they wrote their own. All the api requests fall under the same domain.

https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/user/getCountryByIp https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/forums/getForumAccess https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/forums/getCurrentForumTrees https://forums.lenovo.com/api/v1/topic/getTopic?fid=6&tid=51...

Also interesting that they have no auth requirement on the getCountryByIp route

They seem to consistently mis-spell "community" in the code, which is kind of interesting:

  var __currentForum = 
  window.CommuntiyForums&&CommuntiyForums.findCommuntiyHomepageByUrlPath()||'';
            if(__currentForum&&__currentForum.hit){
                lmdBrandVal = "Forum Details:"+ __currentForum.forum.board;
            }else{
                var __websiteInfo = sessionStorage&&sessionStorage.websiteInfo ? sessionStorage.websiteInfo : sessionStorage.currentCommuntiySite;
                if(__websiteInfo&&JSON.parse(__websiteInfo).board) {
                    lmdBrandVal = "Forum Details:" + JSON.parse(__websiteInfo).board;
                }
            }

I inherited a codebase like this, from a developer coding in their native language. Function names or variables started with a typo, and they just carried on with tab/auto completion from then on.

By the time I arrived the damage was wide and it was easier to leave it consistently wrong than try and fix across several codebases.

BuiltWith says that the CMS used at forums.lenovo.com is from Lithium Technologies, and it was first detected in July, 2012. I'm not sure if this is the forum software, or something else.

Lithium is now Khoros (https://khoros.com/), which is in pretty broad use.

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