FWIW some years ago Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) wrote Lamernews [0][1] with the goal to create such a clone. AFAIK Lamernews, as a site, is long gone, but th

FWIW some years ago Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) wrote Lamernews [0][1] with the goal to create such a clone. AFAIK Lamernews, as a site, is long gone, but the code -Ruby, Sinatra, Redis- is still there. There have also been some forks. EchoJS [2] made a few modifications through the years and is running still today. Mostly about moderation and some related tasks like blacklisting and others. Can't say much about pros/cons but at least it's still used and somewhat maintained. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146051 [1] https://github.com/antirez/lamernews https://github.com/antirez/lamernews [2] https://github.com/echojs/echojs https://github.com/echojs/echojs