<story><title>Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit</title><url>https://raddit.me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monokrome</author><text>I wonder if these people are aware that they didn&amp;#x27;t need to write a Reddit clone?&lt;p&gt;Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fizzer</author><text>Reddit just recently announced they&amp;#x27;re no longer open source [1].  The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they&amp;#x27;re against the Reddit corporation.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;programming&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6xh3xp&amp;#x2F;reddits_main_code_is_no_longer_opensource&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;programming&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6xh3xp&amp;#x2F;reddits...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit</title><url>https://raddit.me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monokrome</author><text>I wonder if these people are aware that they didn&amp;#x27;t need to write a Reddit clone?&lt;p&gt;Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hilbertseries</author><text>Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dependencies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dependencies&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>