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Reddit goes open source completely
The strong competitor of Digg, Redddit, has decided to open its entire code base on the internet. code.reddit.com is live now for developer to help to improve the Reddit together with others. It is not going to encourage another clone of Reddit, but to let users understand how social news website works. It also let developers to devlop add-on or plug-in for Reddit users.
Some people predict that could hurt Digg, but will the fans switch to use Reddit because of the open source thing? I think probably not.
[via Mashable]
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1. First Reddit clone&hellip replies at 20th June 2008, 2:06 am :
[...] Social news website, Reddit, has opened its source completely. We hoped to see there is more 3rd party softwares for Reddit, but before that we have a Reddit clone now. TechNews on TechCrunch is a new site based on the Reddit source. It works just like Reddit, good news will be put on the front page. Currently, there are lots of things is same as Reddit. TechCrunch said they are intended for people to read the tech news easily. It should not be treated as “clone”. Reddit knows it and talks about TechNews in the party held recently. [...]
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