Ask HN: have you installed Reddit/HN features? Best practices?
I want to add a community feature to my site, where people can post links and comments, like Reddit, HN, StackOverflow,... I know the Reddit code is open source (minus the captchas, I think).
I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice about Reddit and Reddit-like alternatives: - ease of installation - the robustness of the system - the maintenance involved - spam control - Wordpress integration
Etcetera. Thank you very much for your help.
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[ 12.1 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] threadI just looked at the reddit github source. You can get to it from www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
There appears to be an installer script now along with upstart scripts to launch the services. This is vastly simpler than it was when I was using the code. I had to manually install all of the dependencies; looks like they have taken care of that.
There is also a vm floating around with an already installed reddit. I'm not going to track it down but it should be able to get you up and running in a few minutes.