Which type of electronic community displays discussions on different topics in threads?

Social media for example "Reddit" would be one.   

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I’d say platform as a service (paas) or application platform as a service (apaas) or platform base service is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.