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I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone? Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly f
by monokrome 9y ago
I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone?
Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough?
https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
- akras14 9y agoI was wondering the same thing
- Fizzer 9y agoReddit just recently announced they're no longer open source [1]. The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they're against the Reddit corporation. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits_main_code_is_no_longer_opensource/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits...
- hilbertseries 9y agoReddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies.
- granitosaurus 9y agoThat's actually not much at all.
- pherq 9y agoThe authors of Raddit tried that, but found that actually running Reddit's software, especially on low-end hardware for a smaller community, was a pain in the arse and decided it'd be easier to build their own that fit their purposes.
- andypants 9y agoThat's not the complete source code. Some parts are kept secret such as the voting algorithm.
- Can_Not 9y agoIf they wanted to use Python, they probably would have forked it. Not everyone thinks python is good.
- creatonez 9y agoReddit is not released under a free software license.