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Question: How do I build a discussion board in the HN Style?

• fendrak 13y ago
  You probably want to check out: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki Specifically: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/how-to-run-news https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/how-to...
• gexla 13y ago
  You could just use the same code which runs reddit. https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
  • peterarmstrong 13y ago
    Beware: you can only do that if you want to open source your entire site. It used to be the AGPL, now it's the CPAL, which has the same effect.
• sgrove 13y ago
  I'd recommend checking out Telescope (http://telesc.pe/ http://telesc.pe/), it's a very feature-rich news site in the style of hn/reddit, it's very actively developed, has a decent interface/design built-in, and can literally be deployed just by clicking a link (though you can host it on your own server if you want). Many news sites posted on hn tend to use telescope for these very reasons. You can find out more here: http://telesc.pe/ http://telesc.pe/ And launch your own instance through Giteor here: https://giteor.com/deploy?git=com.github.SachaG.Telescope.master https://giteor.com/deploy?git=com.github.SachaG.Telescope.ma...
  • shovel 13y ago
    Sacha also created a very decent course (Discover Meteor) that goes through the process of building such a site using meteor. // No affiliation.
  • 10dpd 13y ago
    This looks like an awesome approach but a few important considerations: - How scalable is hosting on meteor.com? - Does Telescope provide an API to let you, for example, create a native mobile app/browser extension?
    • devonbarrett 13y ago
      > How scalable is hosting on meteor.com? Currently hosting on meteor.com is mainly meant for demoing and testing, not as a stable production enviroment. However, with the release of Meteor 1.0, the Meteor Development Group will launch Galaxy, which is a production ready hosting managed hosting platform.
      • sgdesign 13y ago
        Agreed. There are plenty of other options for hosting Meteor apps though (http://modulus.io http://modulus.io, http://digitalocean.com http://digitalocean.com, etc.) And Telescope does have a simple read-only API, as well as an RSS feed. Depending on the features you need I could probably extend it (or you can submit a pull request).
• anishkothari 13y ago
  You could try Telescope, a similar project built with Meteor http://telesc.pe/ http://telesc.pe/ edit: see more informative post above :-)
• nvartolomei 13y ago
  Or this one: https://github.com/maccman/monocle https://github.com/maccman/monocle To me it looks way better, but it depends on your needs. Ruby.
• steveklabnik 13y ago
  The source for HN comes with Arc: http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install
  • etrain 13y ago
    Most of the HN clones you see (that share the style of HN) are built based on this Arc example. Note certain features of HN (like the rules used for scoring posts) are not in this source code.
  • lnanek2 13y ago
    Tough to recommend that, though, when it can't even keep links working when I leave a page open in tabs. Much better off going with a mature, open source project that isn't crippled and bug ridden. There are quite a few. Personally it would only take me a day to style a real CMS into looking like it, like Drupal since I've written Drupal plugins for far more advanced stuff before, so I wouldn't even need to hobble myself with a site type specific project like Telescope.
    • steveklabnik 13y ago
      This isn't a bug, really, more of an implementation side effect.
      • bri3d 13y ago
        Aren't "implementation side effects" leading to a mismatch between a user's expected behavior and the actual behavior a bug? Where's the line? :) More seriously I don't think Arc is a good idea for an HN clone; the lispiness of it all is cute but the way continuations are implemented doesn't seem to scale in a good way in real life. Some form of cursoring like what Reddit uses for pagination is probably better. Plus the news example couples the layout/theme to the UI code in painful ways.
        • krapp 13y ago
          >Aren't "implementation side effects" leading to a mismatch between a user's expected behavior and the actual behavior a bug? Where's the line? :) It is kind of funny that a forum like this, with this layout, and that "implementation side effect", written in a similar style in PHP would be utterly lambasted here.
• secfirstmd 13y ago
  Thanks guys, really appreciate the suggestions :)
• ShirsenduK 13y ago
  Have you looked at discourse? Its more of a discussion board.
• carbocation 13y ago
  There are many ways to do it. Basically you need to store posts and display them in a nested format, meaning that you should pull down the data and then nest it based on child-parent relationships. I wrote something similar in golang. An example is http://askgolang.com/ http://askgolang.com/ and the package itself with demo code is at https://github.com/carbocation/go.graf https://github.com/carbocation/go.graf Of course, this can be done in any language, but I found to quite pleasant (and safe).
• kbar13 13y ago
  I think that the problem isn't getting the right software/design (anyone can do that). The problem is getting the right community and mods to keep it going once you've started. Good luck m8
• lastcanal 13y ago
  Take a look at Lamernews (https://github.com/antirez/lamernews https://github.com/antirez/lamernews). It is written in Ruby by the author Redis. It uses Redis as the primary database. Here is it in action: http://lamernews.com/ http://lamernews.com/
• epa 13y ago
  If you have to ask....
• atko 13y ago
  I started working on a similar project several weeks ago in ASP.NET and C#. Implementing proper nested comments is a big challenge for a beginner like me, so I dropped development until school projects slow down a little. I'm thinking of opensourcing it but I don't know if there is any interest for that. The project is located at a weird domain (yes, I need a better name, feel free to recommend one) which is www.forbidme.com
• abhi21284 13y ago
  Here is one based on django/mezzanine https://github.com/stephenmcd/drum https://github.com/stephenmcd/drum
• diminish 13y ago
  Here is how: First become a pg in your specific area, someone whom everyone in this specific industry sees as highly knowledgeable, good-networked and.... for SW choose a good one suggested here. Use hnsearch to find more (for example USV, lobster.rs, reddit source code)
  • clarry 13y ago
    > [..] (for example USV, lobster.rs, reddit source code) It's lobste.rs
• dickler 13y ago
  It's pretty simple to sart off with php/mysql. Paul Graham does a lot of data mining on it for moderation (he made applying naive bayes to spam filtering famous a while back). If you don't have programming skills you're better of off just starting a subreddit. The hard part in these is building the community. A better strategy might be to find a subreddit with a community and try to take over it somehow (communicate with mods or pay them to take over).
  • krapp 13y ago
    Could easily be done with a framework of course - probably something lightweight. I've got competing implementations in Laravel 4 and Slim Framework being worked on right now. I know someone else is working on a HN news clone in Laravel as well, it was mentioned in a thread somewhere. But yeah definitely, getting people to join would be the hard part. I've seen people build what they thought were the greatest forums ever and just sort of expect people to show up but they don't.
• notastartup 13y ago
  anything written in python?
• elwell 13y ago
  no, that's what reddit's for.
• secfirstmd 13y ago
  Thanks for the overwhelming reponse guys