diff --git a/git_hooks/pre-push b/git_hooks/pre-push
index 5595417..76c9051 100755
--- a/git_hooks/pre-push
+++ b/git_hooks/pre-push
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ vagrant ssh -c ". activate \
     && echo 'Checking mypy type annotations...' && mypy . \
     && echo 'Checking if Black would reformat any code...' && black --check . \
     && echo -n 'Running tests: ' && pytest -q \
-    && echo 'Checking code style fully (takes a while)...' && pylama"
+    && echo 'Checking code style fully (takes a while)...' && prospector -M"
diff --git a/tildes/prospector.yaml b/tildes/prospector.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3f075d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tildes/prospector.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+strictness: none
+doc-warnings: true
+max-line-length: 88
+
+ignore-paths:
+  - alembic
+
+pep8:
+  disable:
+    # "multiple statements on one line" - type declarations seem to trigger sometimes
+    - E704
+
+pep257:
+  disable:
+    # checks for blank lines after a function docstring, but Black will add one
+    # when the first code in the function is another function definition.
+    - D202
+    - D203  # blank line before class docstring
+    - D213  # blank line after summary line for multi-line docstring
+
+pyflakes:
+  disable:
+    - F401  # unused imports, triggers in __init__.py and pylint can handle it otherwise
+
+pylint:
+  enable: all
+  disable:
+    - bad-continuation  # let Black handle line-wrapping
+    - comparison-with-callable  # seems to have a lot of false positives
+    - logging-fstring-interpolation  # rather use f-strings than worry about this
+    - no-else-return  # elif after return - could refactor to enable this check
+    - no-self-use  # schemas do this a lot, would be nice to only disable for schemas
+    - too-few-public-methods  # plenty of classes that don't need multiple methods
+    - too-many-instance-attributes  # models have many instance attributes
diff --git a/tildes/pylama.ini b/tildes/pylama.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index 866ed4f..0000000
--- a/tildes/pylama.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-[pylama]
-linters = mccabe,pycodestyle,pydocstyle,pyflakes,pylint
-skip = alembic/*
-
-# ignored checks:
-#   - D202 - pydocstyle check for blank lines after a function docstring, but
-#       Black will add one when the first code in the function is another
-#       function definition.
-#   - D203 - pydocstyle has two mutually exclusive checks (D203/D211)
-#       for whether a class docstring should have a blank line before
-#       it or not. I don't want a blank line, so D203 is disabled.
-#   - D213 - another pair of mutually exclusive pydocstyle checks, this
-#       time for whether a multi-line docstring's summary line should be
-#       on the first or second line. I want it to be on the first line,
-#       so D213 needs to be disabled.
-#   - E203 - checks for whitespace around : in slices, but Black adds it
-#       in some cases.
-ignore = D202,D203,D213,E203
-
-[pylama:pycodestyle]
-max_line_length = 88
-
-[pylama:pylint]
-enable = all
-
-# disabled pylint checks:
-#   - bad-continuation (Black will handle wrapping lines properly)
-#   - missing-docstring (already reported by pydocstyle)
-#   - too-few-public-methods (more annoying than helpful, especially early on)
-#   - too-many-instance-attributes (overly-picky when models need many)
-#   - locally-disabled (don't need a warning about things I disable)
-#   - locally-enabled (or when checks are (re-)enabled)
-#   - suppressed-message (...a different message when I disable one?)
-disable =
-    bad-continuation,
-    missing-docstring,
-    too-few-public-methods,
-    too-many-instance-attributes,
-    locally-disabled,
-    locally-enabled,
-    suppressed-message
-
-# The APIv0 and venusian.AttachInfo classes need to be ignored because pylint
-# can't recognize dynamically-added methods/attrs, so all of the functions in
-# cornice.Service like .get(), .post(), etc. cause errors.
-ignored-classes = APIv0, venusian.AttachInfo
-
-[pylama:tildes/schemas/*]
-# ignored checks for schemas specifically:
-#   - R0201 - method could be a function (for @pre_load-type methods)
-ignore = R0201
-
-[pylama:tildes/views/api/web/*]
-# ignored checks for web API specifically:
-#   - C0103 - invalid function names (endpoints can have very long ones)
-ignore = C0103
-
-[pylama:tests/*]
-# ignored checks for tests specifically:
-#   - D100 - missing module-level docstrings
-#   - C0103 - invalid function names (tests often have very long ones)
-#   - W0212 - access to protected member (useful/necessary for tests sometimes)
-#   - W0621 - redefining name from outer scope (that's how pytest fixtures work)
-#   - E1101 - <something> has no member (mocks add members this can't detect)
-ignore = D100,C0103,W0212,W0621,E1101
-
-[pylama:*/__init__.py]
-# ignore "imported but unused" inside __init__.py files
-ignore = W0611
diff --git a/tildes/requirements-to-freeze.txt b/tildes/requirements-to-freeze.txt
index 5e15100..58d0f38 100644
--- a/tildes/requirements-to-freeze.txt
+++ b/tildes/requirements-to-freeze.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ ago
 alembic
 amqpy
 argon2_cffi
-astroid==1.5.3  # pylama has issues with pylint 1.8.1
 black
 bleach
 click
@@ -15,12 +14,9 @@ mypy
 mypy-extensions
 Pillow
 prometheus-client
+prospector
 psycopg2
 publicsuffix2
-pydocstyle
-pylama
-pylama-pylint
-pylint==1.7.5  # pylama has issues with 1.8.1
 pyotp
 pyramid
 pyramid-debugtoolbar
diff --git a/tildes/requirements.txt b/tildes/requirements.txt
index 6c3cf2c..6bb3843 100644
--- a/tildes/requirements.txt
+++ b/tildes/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ alembic==1.0.0
 amqpy==0.13.1
 appdirs==1.4.3
 argon2-cffi==18.3.0
-astroid==1.5.3
+astroid==2.0.4
 atomicwrites==1.2.0
 attrs==18.1.0
 backcall==0.1.0
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ chardet==3.0.4
 click==6.7
 cornice==3.4.0
 decorator==4.3.0
+dodgy==0.1.9
+flake8==3.5.0
+flake8-polyfill==1.0.2
 freezegun==0.3.10
 gunicorn==19.9.0
 html5lib==1.0.1
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ mypy==0.620
 mypy-extensions==0.4.1
 parso==0.3.1
 PasteDeploy==1.5.2
+pep8-naming==0.7.0
 pexpect==4.6.0
 pickleshare==0.7.4
 Pillow==5.2.0
@@ -44,18 +48,18 @@ plaster-pastedeploy==0.6
 pluggy==0.7.1
 prometheus-client==0.3.1
 prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
+prospector==1.1.2
 psycopg2==2.7.5
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 publicsuffix2==2.20160818
 py==1.6.0
-pycodestyle==2.4.0
+pycodestyle==2.3.1
 pycparser==2.18
 pydocstyle==2.1.1
-pyflakes==2.0.0
+pyflakes==1.6.0
 Pygments==2.2.0
-pylama==7.4.3
-pylama-pylint==3.0.1
-pylint==1.7.5
+pylint==2.1.1
+pylint-plugin-utils==0.4
 pyotp==2.2.6
 pyramid==1.9.2
 pyramid-debugtoolbar==4.4
@@ -74,6 +78,8 @@ qrcode==6.0
 redis==2.10.6
 repoze.lru==0.7
 requests==2.19.1
+requirements-detector==0.6
+setoptconf==0.2.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1
 simplejson==3.16.0
 six==1.11.0
diff --git a/tildes/scripts/initialize_db.py b/tildes/scripts/initialize_db.py
index 3df4b27..c7bd111 100644
--- a/tildes/scripts/initialize_db.py
+++ b/tildes/scripts/initialize_db.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Script for doing the initial setup of database tables."""
+# pylint: disable=wrong-import-order
 
 import os
 import subprocess
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/lib/message.py b/tildes/tildes/lib/message.py
index 4e422ab..9d4ad7d 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/lib/message.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/lib/message.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 WELCOME_MESSAGE_SUBJECT = "Welcome to the Tildes alpha"
 
-# pylama:ignore=E501
 WELCOME_MESSAGE_TEXT = """
 Hi, welcome to the Tildes alpha!
 
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_notification_query.py b/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_notification_query.py
index 32e4d72..b473947 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_notification_query.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_notification_query.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ class CommentNotificationQuery(ModelQuery):
 
     def join_all_relationships(self) -> "CommentNotificationQuery":
         """Eagerly join the comment, topic, and group to the notification."""
+        # pylint: disable=self-cls-assignment
         self = self.options(
             joinedload(CommentNotification.comment)
             .joinedload("topic")
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_tree.py b/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_tree.py
index b4299f6..cdf77e8 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_tree.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/comment/comment_tree.py
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ class CommentTree:
         direct parents. All comments with any uncollapsed descendant will be collapsed
         individually. Branches with no uncollapsed comments will be collapsed fully.
         """
+        # pylint: disable=too-many-branches
         for comment in reversed(self.comments):
             # as soon as we reach an old comment, we can stop
             if comment.created_time <= threshold:
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/log/log.py b/tildes/tildes/models/log/log.py
index e7faec5..7b92478 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/log/log.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/log/log.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Contains the Log class."""
+# pylint: disable=too-many-branches,too-many-return-statements
 
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
@@ -142,7 +143,6 @@ class LogTopic(DatabaseModel, BaseLog):
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
         """Return a string representation of the log event."""
-        # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements
         if self.event_type == LogEventType.TOPIC_TAG:
             return self._tag_event_description()
         elif self.event_type == LogEventType.TOPIC_MOVE:
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/model_query.py b/tildes/tildes/models/model_query.py
index d0aa06c..69bd114 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/model_query.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/model_query.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Contains the ModelQuery class, a specialized SQLAlchemy Query subclass."""
+# pylint: disable=self-cls-assignment
 
 from typing import Any, Iterator, TypeVar
 
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/pagination.py b/tildes/tildes/models/pagination.py
index 806f9b7..f3f8a90 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/pagination.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/pagination.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class PaginatedQuery(ModelQuery):
 
     def _apply_before_or_after(self) -> "PaginatedQuery":
         """Apply the "before" or "after" restrictions if necessary."""
+        # pylint: disable=assignment-from-no-return
         if not (self.after_id or self.before_id):
             return self
 
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
index 540360c..876a8ed 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic.py
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ class Topic(DatabaseModel):
 
     def __acl__(self) -> Sequence[Tuple[str, Any, str]]:
         """Pyramid security ACL."""
+        # pylint: disable=too-many-branches
         acl = []
 
         # deleted topics allow "general" viewing, but nothing else
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic_query.py b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic_query.py
index af7edf7..5273acf 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic_query.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/models/topic/topic_query.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ class TopicQuery(PaginatedQuery):
 
     def _attach_visit_data(self) -> "TopicQuery":
         """Join the data related to the user's last visit to the topic(s)."""
+        # pylint: disable=assignment-from-no-return
         if self.request.user.track_comment_visits:
             query = self.outerjoin(
                 TopicVisit,
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/schemas/fields.py b/tildes/tildes/schemas/fields.py
index 2f43ebd..644e3ae 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/schemas/fields.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/schemas/fields.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Enum(Field):
         self, enum_class: Optional[Type] = None, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any
     ) -> None:
         """Initialize the field with an optional enum class."""
+        # pylint: disable=keyword-arg-before-vararg
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self._enum_class = enum_class
 
diff --git a/tildes/tildes/views/api/web/exceptions.py b/tildes/tildes/views/api/web/exceptions.py
index ab9be1a..1261337 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/views/api/web/exceptions.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/views/api/web/exceptions.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ def _422_response_with_errors(errors: Sequence[str]) -> Response:
 @ic_view_config(context=ValidationError)
 def unprocessable_entity(request: Request) -> Response:
     """Exception view for 422 errors."""
+    # pylint: disable=too-many-branches
     if isinstance(request.exception, ValidationError):
         validation_error = request.exception
     else: