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Looks like an interesting concept to hack on. But somehow I get the nagging feeling it's suffering from the whole "everyone needs to code their own CMS at some point in their career".

Maybe the new saying will be "Every competent web dev has coded a news site at some point"?

PS: I joined, my internet OCD demands it.

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antirez is not new to this. he created one of the first Digg/Reddit inspired news site in Italy back in 2005 or 2006. I beleive that was originally built in PHP/MySql and recently ported to Redis as the main database. The entire project was aquired by one of the largest italian internet companies around 2006 or 2007 and it's now hosted at http://oknotizie.virgilio.com

As far as I know, that project was never made open source. You can find other early projects from antirez here http://merzia.com/

Link should be http://oknotizie.virgilio.it/, not .com.

Me too. I can't resist on voting up every article on the front page.

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