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Slashdot should be imitating HN or Reddit's design. Liberal usage of whitespace is NOT a good idea for news aggregators. (too slow to scan content)
by Miyamoto 13y ago
Slashdot should be imitating HN or Reddit's design. Liberal usage of whitespace is NOT a good idea for news aggregators. (too slow to scan content)
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI'm surprised Reddit doesn't offer a service where you can have your own "clone" of Reddit (similar to how you can pay for a white label Stackoverflow subdomain). Like a SaaS replacement of vBulletin or PHPBB.
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- taspeotis 13y ago> similar to how you can pay for a white label Stackoverflow subdomain [citation needed]
- mhp 13y agoYou cannot pay for a white label subdomain. You can however license the engine for internal use only (but pricing makes it only make sense for large institutions). citation: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16054/is-the-stack-exchange-engine-available http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16054/is-the-stack-e...
- scott_karana 13y agoIt looks like at one point, they did used to offer whitelabels: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/83591/how-to-run-a-private-stack-exchange-like-site http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/83591/how-to-run-a-p... Sorry I couldn't find a better link on short notice :)
- Fuzzwah 13y agoThey allow you to just start a new subreddit. Or download the source and run your own....
- bane 13y agoAlready exists (though a bit dead) http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdot http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdot
- throwaway2048 13y agothe reddit stack is open source (beyond their secret sauce anti-spam stuff) so you can easily run run your own reddit clone already.
- jedberg 13y agoIt does. You can start your own subreddit, point your own domain at it, and then style it to your liking. It's not super obvious, but the functionality has actually been there for years.