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Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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Re: Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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post #19

I think Reddit clones would be a lot more commonplace and popular if they had a name other than "Reddit clones"; it's a simple site architecture in retrospect, analogous to a blog or a wiki. They are all categories of web applications that have interactive elements, but also act as websites for those who don't care to participate. Now, imagine if blogs had been called "Wordpress clones", or wikis had been known as "W…

Social bookmarking site?

Re: Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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post #19

I think Reddit clones would be a lot more commonplace and popular if they had a name other than "Reddit clones"; it's a simple site architecture in retrospect, analogous to a blog or a wiki. They are all categories of web applications that have interactive elements, but also act as websites for those who don't care to participate. Now, imagine if blogs had been called "Wordpress clones", or wikis had been known as "W…

Social bookmarking site?

maybe social web surfing? delicious is social bookmarking.

i guess it depends how one uses reddit though.

Re: Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure

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post #19

I think Reddit clones would be a lot more commonplace and popular if they had a name other than "Reddit clones"; it's a simple site architecture in retrospect, analogous to a blog or a wiki. They are all categories of web applications that have interactive elements, but also act as websites for those who don't care to participate. Now, imagine if blogs had been called "Wordpress clones", or wikis had been known as "W…

Social bookmarking site?

I think that's a little too broad of a category. That conveys the sharing of links, but not the voting and comments, which I feel are the defining features of reddit.
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