FWIW, the folks at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab have an instance
of the software behind HackerNews specifically for library stuff.
http://news.librarycloud.org/

It's been pretty pretty low traffic, but the infrastructure's there
and I'm sure we'd be welcome.

Also, lobst.er's looks like it might be my next destination when hn's
signal/noise ratio gets unbearable.... Wish someone would fork the hn
android app so that it'll work with arbitrary arc-based fora...

-Corey

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo
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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Shaun Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I only suggested and created the subreddit because it's easy to set up and
>> requires very little maintenance.  I, for one, am open to suggestions for
>> tools with similar functionality, so long as they don't require too much
>> maintenance.
>>
>> Looking at the Hacker News source code... anyone know Arc? :)
>
> For what it's worth, https://lobste.rs (an improved, invite-only
> Hacker News-clone) has its source up on Github - it's a Rails app:
> https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
>
> Mark



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