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It seems a little weird to see a company as big as Reddit succumbing the "new and shiny" mentality, though. I guess this is kind of a Reddit side project, but still... I don't get why they're betting everything on such a new framework (an open source one at that: who's going to support it?) when tried and true solutions such as StoryServer are available.

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I think the reddit core programmers (Stallman, DHH, Linus Torvalds and Al Gore) have been itching to sink their teeth into something with more depth. StoryServer is a strong offering, but ultimately the team was worried that even though CNET rebranded storyserver from PRISM when they acquired it people would confuse it with the NSA program PRISM (rebranded as Facebook in the US). Totally correct though, I am a little rusty with storyserver and I should pick it back up (we've been using facetime and a sharpie marker as our backend).

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