Ask HN: Have you seen any open source HN clones?

3 points·villageidiot··10 comments

I found this Indian one:

http://www.garamkabar.com/

But it doesn't have threaded comments like HN. That seems to miss the whole point.

Has anyone seen an authentic open source clone with the two key features: voting and threaded comments?

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HN is open source itself. Are you looking for a clone specifically?

Where is the code available from?

arclanguage.org

It's part of the arc distribution

I had no idea. Very helpful. Thank you.

As interesting as arc is, sticking with Django or Rails would probably make life easier.

Thanks! I had no idea.

No, I didn't need a clone specifically but was not aware the code was available. Do you know where it can be found?

Reddit is open source.

http://code.reddit.com/

Yes, thanks, I should have mentioned I thought about that - but the unruliness of the community turned me off. I assumed this is the case because anyone can downvote. Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote. That said, I suppose I could use the reddit code and tweak the downvoting feature to only provide it to users who have established some credibility in the community :)

"Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote."

I think HN is more polite because:

1) when people flag a submission as off-topic, it gets killed

2) people here often care about their reputations, because they may work professionally with other people here, now or in the future

3) when name calling starts, Paul Graham often steps in, and people care about what he thinks (see item 2 above)

None of these attributes can be found in the HN source code.

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