Anyone else feels nostalgic?

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[–]cloudrabbit[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (20 children)

How s saidit going to compete with ruqqus?

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Buy having a way better UX, and far (faaaaar) better architecture, allowing it to not only not crush every day but actually withstand DDOS with relative ease?

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There is a good reason reddit isn't banning ruqqus links, but does so for saidit.

[–]cloudrabbit[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

ruqqus is down, yeah, that's why I went for saidis + because the interface was 100% familiar. But I'm personally 50/50 on the old interface - I kinda like the modern look, even if the old one has less distractions. I worry most people would prefer the modern look of ruqqus and getting additional hosting infrustructure + optimizing the site is just a matter of time and they seem to be working on it right now.

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From what I understand, their problems are in terms of architecture are pretty deep.
I am actually unsure people prefer modern look - I, for once, cannot stand the new reddit, and have had old.reddit.com turned on almost all the time.
Ruqqus interface shares the same problems - its lacks the simplicity and elegance the old reddit interface has. I truly believe the only reason it's more popular for now is because unlike magnora7, the creators (and users) of ruqqus actually take significant action to promote it everywhere they can.
If the users of saidit (us) did the same, I believe it'd overtake ruqqus in no time.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

i think you're spot on about ruqqus. they were talking about how a new js frontend is going to speed up the site, hah. I do wish them luck, and there are plenty of Redditors around to fill up both sites. The site policies are a big differentiator too.

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Out of curiosity - I read in your post on r/redditalternatives at one point - is this the current repo for saidit?

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yep, we've got the same link down there in the footer

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Wow, for some reason I always thought Reddit was written in PHP rather than python (and c).

Went over some of the models and controllers - the code seems well structured, but it's a shame it's clearly not documented (I assume some internal documentation existed in Reddit Inc. itself that never got published).

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They documented a bit of stuff on the wiki, but it was geared much more toward a developer and not production install. They also started neglecting the open source version for years before they threw in the towel, because they had to unmerge all of their secret shit to push the latest open source code live. So they'd do like 1 big open source commit every few months. They left missing cron jobs and config params in the config file and all sorts of shit. It's been a rough few years getting it this far. And for all of that work, it's still tied to ubuntu 14 and commit X from a goddamn facebook repo from 2015.

It was token open source, the bastards.

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Tell you the truth, if it would not involve tying my identity to the code, and thus damaging any future reputation with the "establishment" companies, I would have started working on a specific reddit clone years ago.

I was hoping to anonymously commit to at least this platform, but learning everything I saw there without documentation is sadly far too time expensive for me.

If there are ever small frontend things you might need in your platform (that can be added anonimously by sending the midified files to you to review / commit), do let me know.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Reddit was originally written in LISP and Aaron Swartz was the one to port it from LISP to python, and that's the code we use today

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Ah. Hard to believe how much he did for reddit, when you think about it.

He would certainly make something akin to saidit himself if he was alive today.

[–]cloudrabbit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What was spez' contribution when Reddit was starting out?

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

I call ruqqus '503.com'

[–]aThievingStableboy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

awtsat

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I want my royalties!! :(

[–]ManWithABanana 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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