[monokrome]

I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone?

Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough?

https://github.com/reddit/reddit

[Fizzer]

Reddit just recently announced they're no longer open source [1]. The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they're against the Reddit corporation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits...

[hilbertseries]

Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies.

[pherq]

The authors of Raddit tried that, but found that actually running Reddit's software, especially on low-end hardware for a smaller community, was a pain in the arse and decided it'd be easier to build their own that fit their purposes.

[Can_Not]

If they wanted to use Python, they probably would have forked it. Not everyone thinks python is good.

[andypants]

That's not the complete source code. Some parts are kept secret such as the voting algorithm.

[creatonez]

Reddit is not released under a free software license.

[akras14]

I was wondering the same thing