Anyone else feels nostalgic?

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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.

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thanks man. yeah i've got like 4 github accounts myself, it's rough.

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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.

Making a reddit clone could damage one's reputation with tech giants? Wow!

Say there are people who create the thedonaldwin site. Should they hide the fact they've made that site or false discrimination during job interviews?