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A few years ago I sent a message to spez on Reddit asking if he'd ever open source the original Lisp version of Reddit. He actually responded and said he couldn

A few years ago I sent a message to spez on Reddit asking if he'd ever open source the original Lisp version of Reddit. He actually responded and said he couldn't find it, but then a while later it was indeed released. I like to think maybe I contributed to the butterfly effect of that happening. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0 https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0

ahansen 3y ago
That's really cool! Thanks for link. I guess I just never assumed that would be open sourced!
- Antrikshy 3y ago
  Old versions of Reddit (in Python IIRC) were open source. They just stopped updating it.
seoulmetro 3y ago
I once asked a famous biscuit (cookie) factory nearby in a smallish city that never gives tours whether I could tour the factory just as a bucket list check off and never expected to get anywhere. They said they don't do that and will never do that unfortunately. A couple weeks later they auctioned off tickets to the factory tours as a "special event". I felt incredibly sour from that. I felt like a little more of humanity had eroded.
- husucueh 3y ago
  You wanted something from someone for free and then felt sour that they were going to charge for it? Are you friends with these people? Why do they owe you anything
  - QuantumG 3y ago
    I think the annoyance is that they weren't interested in giving tours until someone asked, and they figured out they could make a profit. Pretty reasonable to expect a ticket, even if it isn't free.
    - j16sdiz 3y ago
      I guess the annoyance is they said never, changed their mind, and auction the ticket off. If I were the factory owner, I would reserve a ticket for him and give a discounted price to thank for his idea.
      - seoulmetro 3y ago
        Yeah I felt sour but I didn't really have any reason to in today's modern world. I shouldn't expect the human I talked with to actually care.
      - flycaliguy 3y ago
        Depending on the trade secrets involved it could be a paranoid choice made in an area that rewards paranoia. Maybe having somebody reach out for a tour was just red flaggy enough. I agree it’s weird and kind of crummy to then offer an auction up.
  - seoulmetro 3y ago
    That's not why I felt sour. My original request even offered to pay for it.
    - ukuina 3y ago
      Could you not participate in the auction?
      - seoulmetro 3y ago
        I found out well after unfortunately. And tickets were sold pretty damn fast.
        willcipriano 3y ago
        Auction? So, for charity?
  - 0xedd 3y ago
    Man A: "Hey B, here's a nice idea. Will you do it?" Man B: "No. Fuck off." Local News: "Man B wins the lottery after exploiting a free idea." Yep, you can advocate everything is fine with this scenario. You could instead advocate for a different scenario. You know, when you talk to your kids. Or family. Or friends. Or neighbours. And they talk to their x/y/z/a/b/c. Or you could advocate for being an asshole to, what amounts to, a finite number of people. Like a pebble in the pond, causing ripples. Some are poison. Some are not. But you choose which it is.
    - s1artibartfast 3y ago
      I think the issue here is a form of main character syndrome. Where people over-value their ideas, feel entitled, and make up stories where everyone else is the asshole. Man A thinks he is a genius, and man B never considered a tour. Man A assumes nobody else has ever asked, and they aren't the 10th person this week. Man A thinks the idea is a critical contribution, not having the knowledge, planning, giving the tour, or having a factory.
      - seoulmetro 3y ago
        Yeah this is why I let my sour feelings go but still consider the interaction funny. Why would I, a grown man, be let into a factory based on a bucket list idea out of nowhere? Even if it's something people would have gladly done in this corner of the world 20 years ago. Why would they, a professional company, talk to me ever again even if I were the straw to break the camels back of "touring". haha
- riwsky 3y ago
  That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
rhaksw 3y ago
Interesting, it has a del.icio.us scraper. I still don't understand why that site disappeared, it was great. By my recollection, Yahoo bought it and killed it.
- nextos 3y ago
  I wish someone brought back a Delicious clone. I loved its naive Web 2.0 aesthetics. I think it was a really nice service. Right now all similar ones I know of are unpleasant to use and get in your way. It was really minimal and useful to find new things. One particular area where link sharing makes a lot of sense, yet existing services are not very nice, is academic papers.
  - pigbearpig 3y ago
    I don’t really remember delicious, but what would the difference be from something like https://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/ ? I was under the impression that’s basically a clone. Was it just a different aesthetic?
    - jonnytran 3y ago
      Pinboard was a clone with a different business model: users actually paid for it. Fast forward, and delicious died, only to be acquired by — you guessed it — Pinboard [1]. Because Pinboard was actually serving its paying customers, it just kept trucking along. [1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
    - pjc50 3y ago
      delicious launched before Pinboard, IIRC. There were a number of such services.
    - nashashmi 3y ago
      try it out. del.icio.us
- bonki 3y ago

ahansen 3y ago

That's really cool! Thanks for link. I guess I just never assumed that would be open sourced!

Antrikshy 3y ago
Old versions of Reddit (in Python IIRC) were open source. They just stopped updating it.

seoulmetro 3y ago

I once asked a famous biscuit (cookie) factory nearby in a smallish city that never gives tours whether I could tour the factory just as a bucket list check off and never expected to get anywhere. They said they don't do that and will never do that unfortunately. A couple weeks later they auctioned off tickets to the factory tours as a "special event". I felt incredibly sour from that. I felt like a little more of humanity had eroded.

husucueh 3y ago
You wanted something from someone for free and then felt sour that they were going to charge for it? Are you friends with these people? Why do they owe you anything
- QuantumG 3y ago
  I think the annoyance is that they weren't interested in giving tours until someone asked, and they figured out they could make a profit. Pretty reasonable to expect a ticket, even if it isn't free.
  - j16sdiz 3y ago
    I guess the annoyance is they said never, changed their mind, and auction the ticket off. If I were the factory owner, I would reserve a ticket for him and give a discounted price to thank for his idea.
    - seoulmetro 3y ago
      Yeah I felt sour but I didn't really have any reason to in today's modern world. I shouldn't expect the human I talked with to actually care.
    - flycaliguy 3y ago
      Depending on the trade secrets involved it could be a paranoid choice made in an area that rewards paranoia. Maybe having somebody reach out for a tour was just red flaggy enough. I agree it’s weird and kind of crummy to then offer an auction up.
- seoulmetro 3y ago
  That's not why I felt sour. My original request even offered to pay for it.
  - ukuina 3y ago
    Could you not participate in the auction?
    - seoulmetro 3y ago
      I found out well after unfortunately. And tickets were sold pretty damn fast.
      - willcipriano 3y ago
        Auction? So, for charity?
- 0xedd 3y ago
  Man A: "Hey B, here's a nice idea. Will you do it?" Man B: "No. Fuck off." Local News: "Man B wins the lottery after exploiting a free idea." Yep, you can advocate everything is fine with this scenario. You could instead advocate for a different scenario. You know, when you talk to your kids. Or family. Or friends. Or neighbours. And they talk to their x/y/z/a/b/c. Or you could advocate for being an asshole to, what amounts to, a finite number of people. Like a pebble in the pond, causing ripples. Some are poison. Some are not. But you choose which it is.
  - s1artibartfast 3y ago
    I think the issue here is a form of main character syndrome. Where people over-value their ideas, feel entitled, and make up stories where everyone else is the asshole. Man A thinks he is a genius, and man B never considered a tour. Man A assumes nobody else has ever asked, and they aren't the 10th person this week. Man A thinks the idea is a critical contribution, not having the knowledge, planning, giving the tour, or having a factory.
    - seoulmetro 3y ago
      Yeah this is why I let my sour feelings go but still consider the interaction funny. Why would I, a grown man, be let into a factory based on a bucket list idea out of nowhere? Even if it's something people would have gladly done in this corner of the world 20 years ago. Why would they, a professional company, talk to me ever again even if I were the straw to break the camels back of "touring". haha
riwsky 3y ago
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

rhaksw 3y ago

Interesting, it has a del.icio.us scraper. I still don't understand why that site disappeared, it was great. By my recollection, Yahoo bought it and killed it.

nextos 3y ago
I wish someone brought back a Delicious clone. I loved its naive Web 2.0 aesthetics. I think it was a really nice service. Right now all similar ones I know of are unpleasant to use and get in your way. It was really minimal and useful to find new things. One particular area where link sharing makes a lot of sense, yet existing services are not very nice, is academic papers.
- pigbearpig 3y ago
  I don’t really remember delicious, but what would the difference be from something like https://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/ ? I was under the impression that’s basically a clone. Was it just a different aesthetic?
  - jonnytran 3y ago
    Pinboard was a clone with a different business model: users actually paid for it. Fast forward, and delicious died, only to be acquired by — you guessed it — Pinboard [1]. Because Pinboard was actually serving its paying customers, it just kept trucking along. [1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...
  - pjc50 3y ago
    delicious launched before Pinboard, IIRC. There were a number of such services.
  - nashashmi 3y ago
    try it out. del.icio.us
bonki 3y ago