Reddit goes open source
I’m a bit behind on my open source news reading - so if you knew this already - sorry for the repeat.
Today, the #1 competitor to Digg, Condé Nast’s Reddit, says “Screw you guys, we’re going transparent”. That’s not an actual quote, but the company’s actions say that in a nutshell.
Condé Nast is opening up Reddit’s codebase to developers, your moms and dads, your pet fish, and whoever else has a computing device hooked up to the interwebs.
This announcement via DownloadSquad. On the new Reddit code page you can find more information about the secret sauce behind this social news tool.
We’ve always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we’re inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site.
Reddit is unique in the social news scene in that we have a huge community of developers. It seems only natural that we give you all in that community a chance to contribute back to reddit and make it a better place for everyone. We know reddit’s success has less to do with our technology than it does with you, our community, and now we want to let our community improve our technology.
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