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Ask HN: have you installed Reddit/HN features? Best practices?
I want to add a community feature to my site, where people can post links and comments, like Reddit, HN, StackOverflow,... I know the Reddit code is open source (minus the captchas, I think).
I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice about Reddit and Reddit-like alternatives:
- ease of installation
- the robustness of the system
- the maintenance involved
- spam control
- Wordpress integration
Etcetera. Thank you very much for your help.
- sctechie 14y agoI haven't installed Reddit from scratch in quite some time. I just looked at the reddit github source. You can get to it from www.reddit.com/r/redditdev There appears to be an installer script now along with upstart scripts to launch the services. This is vastly simpler than it was when I was using the code. I had to manually install all of the dependencies; looks like they have taken care of that. There is also a vm floating around with an already installed reddit. I'm not going to track it down but it should be able to get you up and running in a few minutes.
- challang 14y agoThanks! I'm not a techie, so forgive the stupid question: is HN running Reddit code or something custom built?