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Ask HN: have you installed Reddit/HN features? Best practices?

1 points by challang 4896 days ago

I want to add a community feature to my site, where people can post links and comments, like Reddit, HN, StackOverflow,... I know the Reddit code is open source (minus the captchas, I think).

I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice about Reddit and Reddit-like alternatives: - ease of installation - the robustness of the system - the maintenance involved - spam control - Wordpress integration

Etcetera. Thank you very much for your help.

1 comments

sctechie 4896 days ago

I haven't installed Reddit from scratch in quite some time.

I just looked at the reddit github source. You can get to it from www.reddit.com/r/redditdev

There appears to be an installer script now along with upstart scripts to launch the services. This is vastly simpler than it was when I was using the code. I had to manually install all of the dependencies; looks like they have taken care of that.

There is also a vm floating around with an already installed reddit. I'm not going to track it down but it should be able to get you up and running in a few minutes.

challang 4896 days ago

Thanks! I'm not a techie, so forgive the stupid question: is HN running Reddit code or something custom built?