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- dracostimpy, on 06/18/2008, -12/+139Time for Digg to step up to the plate and do the same, since failure to embrace OSS will put them on the MS-forged path to irrelevance.
Think of it this way, Kevin: Reddit just hired several thousand new employees who all work for free. How sure are you that your handful of developers can keep pace with a small army? I guess we'll find out in a year or so:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=digg%2C+reddit
Looks like the hare is already starting to run out of steam, whereas the tortoise is slowly but steadily catching up.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -2/+114I think it's a great move and very much support open-source!
- blackdrivel, on 06/18/2008, -4/+981. the idealist: yum, yum... stronger algorithm
2. the pessimist: boo, hoo ... spammer's delight
3. the realist: natural selection might sputter at first, but will result in a more fit species - WiseWeasel, on 06/18/2008, -1/+65Otherwise known as the INTERNET crowd... Digg could use some transparency in their operations, might help their credibility.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -2/+57Dupe! MrBabyMan stole the source code from Reddit.
- ggfobster, on 06/19/2008, -5/+53Reddit is routinely > Digg.
Out of habit, I still come here. - mizike, on 06/18/2008, -5/+46"MS-forged path to irrelevance."
LOL. If I owned a business that was as irrelevant in its' market sector as MS is in theirs, I'd be happy as a pig in *****...
You OSS zealots are always good for a laugh, cheers. - InvisibleInk, on 06/18/2008, -0/+40Does this mean anyone can take the code and create their own reddit-like bulletin board?
- lordtyros, on 06/18/2008, -0/+40They didn't open source the anti-spam part.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -1/+37best part of reddit, is the NSFW
- latova, on 06/18/2008, -11/+44They did it to appeal to the Digg crowd.
- ornito, on 06/19/2008, -0/+29Maybe I have to try Reddit
- aedes, on 06/19/2008, -5/+32the reddit crowd tends to be slightly more technically inclined than the digg crowd, so I would think that, if anything, it would appeal to the reddit crowd a little more ;p
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -4/+31Too bad Digg will end up with microsoft.
- mrfreeziexp, on 06/19/2008, -7/+32Reddit >> Digg.
Reddit is an actual social news website, digg is a mrbabyman news website. - Burento, on 06/18/2008, -0/+25As long as you have the ability to use it then you can. There is some basic copyright and use laws that say you have to provide a logo and reference that it is built with reddit's technology. Just like many other open source solutions.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -7/+28Who cares about this open source *****, I wanna keep seeing snorg tees girls and STOP.STARE.FLIRT ads. And for all that I got Digg, so ***** Reddit.
- str3ama, on 06/18/2008, -2/+20wow that's INSANE. It really is the entire system, but it looks like it's a mix of python, xml, sql and sh scripts. As they mentioned, I'd love to see this integrated with Wordpress.
- WiseWeasel, on 06/18/2008, -0/+15You mean the code they just released?
http://code.reddit.com/
There's a tutorial there on getting it running on UNIX OSs.
http://code.reddit.com/wiki/RedditStartToFinish - alilhappything, on 06/19/2008, -1/+16Having the most people doesn't make it the best. Realize that digg's commenting system blows, the personalization of content also blows, and it always has stuff a day after reddit.
I am telling the truth but expect to be downmodded, i mean dugg down, due to blind support for digg. I visit both, but I am more of a redditor than a digger. - noots, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15cue all the elitist reddit people digging down the story in fear of attracting more digg users.
Newsflash: we all go to reddit anyway, and Fark and Slashdot... - grinding, on 06/19/2008, -0/+13From a Reddit user (jonknee) running cloc.pl on the codebase:
Lines of Code
Python - 14917
HTML - 5115
Javascript - 2080
CSS - 1630
C++ - 1447
XML - 673
C/C++ Header - 478
Bourne Shell - 329
Perl - 324
C - 303
SQL - 17
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SUM: 27313 - lcmatt, on 06/19/2008, -1/+14No way bashing Digg but design wise I prefer Reddit as it's light and very fast loading. While FF3 has stopped the lockups while browsing the comments it still stutters due to the huge amount of JS / images etc.
- merreborn, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11It's not. That's a graph of google searches. Most people searching for "buzz" aren't looking for buzz.com
- mudpuddle, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11Theoretically, yes. However, I don't think they're worried about someone releasing "Reddit 2" and overtaking them. When Slashdot (you remember Slashdot, don't you?) released "Slashcode", a few impersonators sprang up, but they never were more than brief blips on the radar. The improvements outsourced to the public far outweighed anything Slashdot lost by releasing their code.
- Burento, on 06/18/2008, -0/+10It would never happen anyhow.. Digg only really considers it users when a full out riot is on the way.
- ataylor32, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10Wow, I was about to leave a comment almost exactly like yours.
I was on Digg way before I was on reddit. Both have their pros and cons. But as far as the users go, reddit users seem to stay more mature than Digg users, for the most part. Sure, there are immature users on both, but it seems like Digg has more of them. Especially with comment graveyards. - mizike, on 06/19/2008, -1/+11And thank god for that....it makes sense though, open-source enough to get some good PR and appeal to the OSS crowd, keep the stuff that's fundamental to operating your business closed so you can continue to make money (google's another great example of this, android is an "open source coalition", but their bread and butter, namely pagerank and adsense, remain closed-source for obvious reasons)
- Versh, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10... 4chan, YTMND, boingboing, Wired, Cracked, Something Awful, Mixx, stumbleupon...
- swazo, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10sorry mate, seems like reddit is not your fit. the fact there is a lack of graphics and web2.0 bs is what makes it attractive to users.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8This is probably the more accurate comparison:
http://tinyurl.com/6exqge - NewsFeed, on 06/18/2008, -3/+11It would be great if someone can make the code available for people to add their own reddit sections to personal sites. This could be a good Pligg replacement for people to make social community sites with.
- bbqsalad, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8by collective you mean just you?
- aedes, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7I'm surprised that this story finally made it onto digg's front page. It only took like, what? 8? 20 different tries/submissions before it finally got through the moderators?
- mrallen86, on 06/19/2008, -7/+14I think it's a source move and very much support open greatness!
- surgen, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7They already have a great artist, you just wouldn't know it because of their sensible website design.
- aedes, on 06/19/2008, -0/+7Another explanation might be simply that the motivation to open up reddit was to improve the overall quality of the site, therefore increasing and pleasing the user base, and increasing ad revenue. However, for obvious reasons, opening up some parts could potentially lead to a decrease in quality, due to spammers, so this part was kept closed.
- bbqsalad, on 06/19/2008, -4/+10And will die because of it.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -2/+8I don't think it will ever happen. Not with the rumors of digg as a Google acquisition.
- Daniel591992, on 06/19/2008, -0/+5Same here. Just checked, and it doesn't look that bad...
- rYno, on 06/19/2008, -0/+5whoa awesome... huge props to reddit! and open source ftw!
- Kral, on 06/19/2008, -0/+5Reddit's programming section isn't filled with lolcats and Ron Paul, so you clearly don't all go there. Good - the fail has been contained.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5Oh no not you again.
- CrushThemTorg, on 06/19/2008, -0/+5Is this one of those things where someone says something like, "my 'friend' got the clap once."?
- GeckoSlayer, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4@colto, but somehow it sounded slightly on topic..
- econojon, on 06/19/2008, -1/+5I mainly agree, but I go to Digg for different reasons than I go to Reddit. They are like apples and oranges. Like CNN and Drudge Report. Very different.
- mitch37, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4Its easy:
HHHHHSSSSSHSSS
SSSSS - colto, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4Wow I totally posted that in the wrong thread. Was supposed to be on the Android open source article. Bury me.
- Matt2k, on 06/19/2008, -2/+6Yeah. And look at the ***** their developers have to put up with already
http://groups.google.com/group/reddit-dev/browse_t ...
Open sourcing your code means everyone asks you "Why don't you do THIS!!!!" -
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