Re:Show HN: LGBT News – Hacker News for LGBT Topics
by pervycreeper on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:06PM
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That's great! I've been thinking of starting a similar project. What fork/ version of news/arc are you using, and could you provide some technical details about how the parent site is implemented?
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Re:Show HN: LGBT News – Hacker News for LGBT Topics
by danlev on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:15PM
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Thanks so much!
The whole site (including LGBT News) is built from scratch, using PHP and MySQL. I came across a few turnkey Hacker News sites, but didn't really like any of them. I decided to build LGBT News from scratch just because I thought it'd be easier to integrate into the existing site, and I thought it'd be a fun project (I usually tend to do that for the learning experience).
Login uses Facebook Login (which has been a huge headache), countries and regions were implemented using an ISO database, and some of the additional data (population, religions, etc.) comes from Freebase.
Re:Show HN: LGBT News – Hacker News for LGBT Topics
by pervycreeper on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:29PM
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Cool, wish you success.