I got this installed and running behind Apache but, long story short: this system is to be administered via an Arc Lisp prompt. No other tools exist. If you're Paul Graham, that's great, but most communities will have difficulty justifying Lisp and Unix expertise qualification to moderate a simple forum. Further, Slicehost started baulking about "suspicious memory use," suggesting that we had misconfigured MySQL. Finally, the system was simply not as stable as I would have needed it to be. Everytime a new directory or file? had to be created, the application would simply return a blank screen, for example.
Update: Also, sometimes while writing long comments (like this one), I'll get the "unknown link" error when submitting.
news.arc would have earned us a fist full of nerd dollars, but I understand that sometimes nerd dollars are simply not acceptable tender in all circumstances.
Drigg is a collection of Drupal modules to recreate Drupal. The installation and configuration was such a hassle, the effort to strip all the unneeded features was too much, and worse of all, I got a Javascript error when trying to vote. I was not pleased by this precedent of needing to debug complex software to do a simple task.
Pligg is a very close clone of Digg in PHP/MySQL. I installed this system without trouble, but the required configuration / feature stripping left me open to other suggestions.
Kevin (rms) suggested both this and Slinkset three days ago. He showed me http://www.linkherd.com/science/, which I liked better than slinkset.com, but at the time, Linkherd.com was broken. Fail.
Had all the features I needed to get started, founders were responsive and obviously working on the site, killer auto-submit RSS feature, let us use our own domain, no configuration.
Brett Gibson of Slinkset has been very responsive, and he tells us that more features like CSS and HTML templates are coming soon.
Yes, linkherd.com is broken and abandoned due to me focusing on my real startup. It has the auto-submit RSS feature, and a cool cross-site auto-submit feature too.
If anyone wants my ugly baby, write to linkherd@gmail.com
- News.Arc [http://arclanguage.org/install]
I got this installed and running behind Apache but, long story short: this system is to be administered via an Arc Lisp prompt. No other tools exist. If you're Paul Graham, that's great, but most communities will have difficulty justifying Lisp and Unix expertise qualification to moderate a simple forum. Further, Slicehost started baulking about "suspicious memory use," suggesting that we had misconfigured MySQL. Finally, the system was simply not as stable as I would have needed it to be. Everytime a new directory or file? had to be created, the application would simply return a blank screen, for example.
Update: Also, sometimes while writing long comments (like this one), I'll get the "unknown link" error when submitting.
news.arc would have earned us a fist full of nerd dollars, but I understand that sometimes nerd dollars are simply not acceptable tender in all circumstances.
- [http://reddit.com/reddits/create]
Has all the features we want, but is a part of Reddit: Reddit domain, Reddit users, Reddit ads, etc.
- Create Your Reddit [http://reddit.com/reddits/create]
Has all the features we want, but is a part of Reddit: Reddit domain, Reddit users, Reddit ads, etc.
- Drigg [http://www.drigg-code.org/]
Drigg is a collection of Drupal modules to recreate Drupal. The installation and configuration was such a hassle, the effort to strip all the unneeded features was too much, and worse of all, I got a Javascript error when trying to vote. I was not pleased by this precedent of needing to debug complex software to do a simple task.
- Pligg [http://pligg.com/]
Pligg is a very close clone of Digg in PHP/MySQL. I installed this system without trouble, but the required configuration / feature stripping left me open to other suggestions.
- Linkherd [http://www.linkherd.com/]
Kevin (rms) suggested both this and Slinkset three days ago. He showed me http://www.linkherd.com/science/, which I liked better than slinkset.com, but at the time, Linkherd.com was broken. Fail.
- Slinkset [http://www.slinkset.com]
Had all the features I needed to get started, founders were responsive and obviously working on the site, killer auto-submit RSS feature, let us use our own domain, no configuration.
Brett Gibson of Slinkset has been very responsive, and he tells us that more features like CSS and HTML templates are coming soon.