[arboc]

Sorry for the long wait again uxcolumbo. This is the description I got from one of the crew members who worked with more of the technical side of things: "Because we needed speed we hosted a wordpress site with a directory plugin that we hacked into and had the functionality that we needed". Maybe it doesn't clear everything up but hope it helps :)

[arboc]

Small addendum: What was used was just digitalocean+wordpress, with some custom code for the posting / upvoting system (but of course gregsadetsky - see comment above - had already figured out that it was digitalocean)

(also to all posters in the thread, thanks again for all the great feedback! I'd expected people to be harsh here, but I feel very welcomed to HN)