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

9 points by skidding 13y ago ↗ HN

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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benfrederickson 13y ago ↗

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

skidding 13y ago ↗

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

mnicole 13y ago ↗

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.

philtar 13y ago ↗

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

attheodo 13y ago ↗

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

mhd 13y ago ↗

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

adregan 13y ago ↗

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

tnorthcutt 13y ago ↗

https://github.com/jcs/lobsters