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Maybe it should be pointed out that the real thing is open source as well.
by ma2rten 13y ago
Maybe it should be pointed out that the real thing is open source as well.
- krapp 13y agohttps://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews ... though obviously the real thing isn't open source, as pg and kogir have made numerous changes they're not releasing and AFAIK they're not taking pull requests on news.ycombinator.com (but they do have a bug tracker @ https://github.com/HackerNews https://github.com/HackerNews) Odd that in all this time no one seems to have forked the original code and iterated on it. Deployed it, sure, but not (say) fixed any of the bugs that annoy people about HN, or made it better.
- jsnell 13y agoIt's a trivially simple program, written in a dead-end language, has a ridiculous architecture, and there appears to be no prospect of changes to the open source version being propagated to the production HN. Doesn't seem particularly odd that nobody has forked the code. If you want to run a site like this, writing a clone seems like the rational choice.