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reddit is open source. Is there a reason why you didn't use its codebase and built one from scratch?
by human_error 13y ago
reddit is open source. Is there a reason why you didn't use its codebase and built one from scratch?
- ryancarson 13y agoNot sure - Jim will have to answer that.
- pudquick 13y agoThat's a great question. They make it so easy, too: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/reddit-install-script-for-Ubuntu https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/reddit-install-script-... and a VM, ready for VMWare / VirtualBox (it's a vagrant setup, actually): http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/qnuxp/pycon_prepackaged_vm/ http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/qnuxp/pycon_prepa... (about a year old) For anyone interested in more details, there's a subreddit community about it as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
- supercoder 13y agoYeah when I read the title I thought this is what they had done..
- ryancarson 13y agoHere's the explanation: http://ryancarson.com/post/49494542970/how-to-use-a-reddit-clone-to-boost-company-culture#comment-883318247 http://ryancarson.com/post/49494542970/how-to-use-a-reddit-c...