Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source platform?

Posted by skidding on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I like the simplicity of this types of platforms (including the algorithm for hype) and I'd like to install one internally inside my organization. Have you ever used an open source platform of this kind that was clean and simple?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by adregan on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:47PM (#5533108)

If you're interested in meteor, telescope (http://telesc.pe/) is an open source social news project.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by mhd on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:26AM (#5532546)

There's antirez' "lamernews", a rather straight-forward Ruby/Redis application and its clone "lusernews" in Python.

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

https://github.com/dengzhp/lusernews

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by benfrederickson on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:13AM (#5532432)

reddit has open sourced their code at https://github.com/reddit/reddit(https://github.com/reddit/r...

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by skidding on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:19AM (#5532482)

Nice! I wonder if the dev version comes by default with the same cluttered interface that Reddit has. I know it's known for its simplicity, but compared to HN that interface is kind of annoying. I'll definitely check it out tho

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by mnicole on Thursday April 11, 2013 @01:58PM (#5533598)

I've long been of the opinion that the people who say Reddit's interface is simple and effective haven't seen very many. I've considered forking and redesigning it, but I'm not sure how much of an undertaking that would actually be (and if it would have value for anyone) vs. doing a similar concept from scratch.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by philtar on Thursday April 11, 2013 @01:58PM (#5533603)

AFAIK, it's the exact same reddit you love/hate just without the spam protection.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by attheodo on Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:16AM (#5532456)

HN is also an open-source demo of the Arc language https://github.com/wting/hackernews

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News/Reddit-like open source pl... by tnorthcutt on Thursday April 11, 2013 @03:20PM (#5534137)

https://github.com/jcs/lobsters

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