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Ask HN: Have you seen any open source HN clones?
I found this Indian one:
http://www.garamkabar.com/
But it doesn't have threaded comments like HN. That seems to miss the whole point.
Has anyone seen an authentic open source clone with the two key features: voting and threaded comments?
- yan 18y agoHN is open source itself. Are you looking for a clone specifically?
- trickjarrett 18y agoWhere is the code available from?
- yan 18y agoarclanguage.org It's part of the arc distribution
- villageidiot 18y agoI had no idea. Very helpful. Thank you.
- villageidiot 18y agoAs interesting as arc is, sticking with Django or Rails would probably make life easier.
- trickjarrett 18y agoThanks! I had no idea.
- villageidiot 18y agoNo, I didn't need a clone specifically but was not aware the code was available. Do you know where it can be found?
- mixmax 18y agoReddit is open source. http://code.reddit.com/ http://code.reddit.com/
- villageidiot 18y agoYes, thanks, I should have mentioned I thought about that - but the unruliness of the community turned me off. I assumed this is the case because anyone can downvote. Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote. That said, I suppose I could use the reddit code and tweak the downvoting feature to only provide it to users who have established some credibility in the community :)
- davi 18y ago"Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote." I think HN is more polite because: 1) when people flag a submission as off-topic, it gets killed 2) people here often care about their reputations, because they may work professionally with other people here, now or in the future 3) when name calling starts, Paul Graham often steps in, and people care about what he thinks (see item 2 above) None of these attributes can be found in the HN source code.