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I will only speak for myself but I left reddit after reading this: http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web Those on reddit might not aware of this story because rather than deal with this issue in a substantive way on an institutional level, reddit decided to ban Gawker links on their site: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/11/reddit_bans_gawker_links_over_adrian_chen_story_about_porn_purveyor_violentacres.html Mita On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Corey A Harper <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > 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 > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > Corey A Harper > Metadata Services Librarian > New York University Libraries > 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor > New York, NY 10003-7112 > 212.998.2479 > [log in to unmask] >