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Combining tons of disparate web forums under a single toxic leadership is what caused these issues in the first place. I would far prefer either something feder
by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Combining tons of disparate web forums under a single toxic leadership is what caused these issues in the first place. I would far prefer either something federated (in the Fediverse sense) or a decent lightweight reddit alternative with no shared accounts, and thus less incentive for karma farming and voting manipulation.
Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase, and shares a small amount of DNA with old.reddit.com. I'd love to see something like HN for all of my favorite hobbies. But I'd also settle for a return to a healthy ecosystem of web forums. What is old is new again!
- robocat 3y ago> Coincidentally, the forum we're commenting on right now uses a fork of the original Reddit codebase The current codebase was developed from scratch - zero forking - from what I can see. HN is written in ARC http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html which is a language designed by Paul Graham. Here’s a thread talking about the early days of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27452276 and it mentions “The earliest version of HN I can find; 166 LOC” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723767 Here’s Paul talking about the release of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html AFAIK this is the latest public copy of the HN code, but it is significantly outdated: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc
- robocat 3y agohttps://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0 https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367241