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Is this site a ripoff of lobste.rs or what?
by booleandilemma 7y ago
Is this site a ripoff of lobste.rs or what?
- omouse 7y agonot a ripoff, they just are using the codebase and have forgotten to remove all instances of the "Lobsters" name (along with having what looks like one user at the moment?) I mean, I hope they succeed as a different type of site or accomplish whatever learning they would like.
- pushcx 7y agoOur codebase is available under 3-clause BSD and we're usually thrilled to see sister sites: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki The administrator of this site submitted a Bitcoin affiliate spam site to Lobsters, was one of the very few users to hit the automatic anti-spam threshhold (MIN_KARMA_TO_SUBMIT_STORIES), and abused our issue tracker to have us configure this site for him. So, uh, no, we have nothing to do with this site and are not exactly fans.
- chovy 7y agoI don't know how I "abused" your issue tracker. :P I filed a github issue on your lobsters open source project asking how to change the logo. If not there, where else should I file issues related to the codebase??
- pushcx 7y agoOur readme explicitly says we don't support people setting up their own sites. You did it anyways, we told you we won't support you, and you did it again.