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Show HN: My Weekend Project -- A Clone of HN Built on Pligg

• sscheper 17y ago
  I know it's not identical; but I'm proud of it considering I've never taken a class in any programming language...
  • JacobAldridge 17y ago
    How did you find pligg as a platform? I'm not a programmer either, but am considering it for a 'beer money' idea I have. (I will be leveraging the support of a friend with php / mysql experience. Would love to know more about your experience.)
    • sscheper 17y ago
      Pligg was pretty easy to pick up; however, I've been using wordpress for a year (which is how I got my feet wet with some development items). Feel free to ping me with any questions! Make sure you don't use their control panel editor to edit the header file; with multiple themes I've experienced situations where components get messed up.
• JayNeely 17y ago
  Nice work. The smaller font on your site made me realize how much empty space there is on the right side of HN; never noticed that before.
• jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  cool! will you release the theme?
  • sscheper 17y ago
    Yea. I've taken a big break. I actually created that over the weekend a while back. I'll be kicking it into gear soon and getting it prepped for release
• terrellm 17y ago
  Nice job on the design. I never was impressed with many Pligg sites because they were just so busy - lots of links to do lots of things. You've removed those extras and now the focus is on the content rather than doing things with the content. A few suggestions/opinions: - Don't use a pure black font - maybe a dark dark gray - Drop the bold on the titles so it's easier on the eyes - text-decoration: none on the titles - Increase the line height for the title and secondary line Good luck and keep up the good work.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  Cool, you may have just set the standard for this, I can see re-implementing HN on a number of platforms / languages as a nice little real-world benchmark.