[cwmma]

For many of my apps, the main reason the core isn't open source is simply because there is too much stuff specific to how we deploy, our deploy target, and specific workflows in the app to be generally useful.

It's pretty understandable that reddit as it scales would have to start making choices between making reddit the site better and making reddit the app usable.

[openinternet123]

The thing is, it was wholly possible to run your own Reddit clone before. Albeit missing some features like anti-spam.

With this, Reddit is announcing that they are no longer supporting that. Even if you cloned every public Reddit repository, there would be missing pieces preventing you from running your own clone.

One thing they don't mention for obvious reasons, is that they're afraid of the community being able to fork off a new site in the case of majorly unpopular decisions. Understandable given the recent 100 million from VCs.