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pretty cool wonder how long it will take for the flood of clones. i can see it now: "now that they're open source, i can build that reddit clone for elite te
by noodle 18y ago
pretty cool
wonder how long it will take for the flood of clones. i can see it now:
"now that they're open source, i can build that reddit clone for elite tech and startup news that i've always wanted to build"
- icey 18y agoI think there will be an initial flood of clones, but only maybe 3 or 4 semi-successful ones. Remember how everyone said there would be a billion Slashdots when Slashcode was open sourced?
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- bayareaguy 18y agoYes, but reddit looks a lot cleaner than slashcode.
- petercooper 18y agoI concur. Several years ago I wrote a "clone" of MetaFilter (which was quite popular at the time) called FreeFilter. A bunch of *Filter sites sprung up with only a few actually "sticking." I don't believe any continue to exist now though.
- pxlpshr 18y agoI actually see this as a good thing for once. The internet needs more content/quality aggregators that are user-driven, not SEO/link-farm tainted. And niche markets are probably the best way to achieve that. I actually hope this will be disruptive, and popular sites return to servicing their audience directly instead of relying on Digg, for example. Digg has become so popular that it almost needs it's own nested-digg now, a rather ironic self-defeating problem with social popularity and vertical growth. I mean, don't get me wrong... I suspect Digg will continue forward and be hugely successful. Hats off to the reddit team.