Comments on: Introducing TechNews, Based On Reddit’s Open Source Project

By: Finance Geek » Is Michael Arrington Building A Digg Killer?

Finance Geek » Is Michael Arrington Building A Digg Killer? — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:29:45 +0000

[...] summer, the company tried to start a tech news aggregator using Reddit’s open-source software, but has since shut it down because no one used [...]

By: itchy

itchy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:22:59 +0000

not a lot going on in the site…

By: Social Media Is Always Changing… But Do You Change With It?

Social Media Is Always Changing… But Do You Change With It? — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:57:14 +0000

[...] was the first to utilize with the launch of their “TechNews” [...]

By: Reddit open source, we owe it to Wired

Reddit open source, we owe it to Wired — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:31:36 +0000

[...] and his team did that, they immediately saw the result they were hoping for: “TechCrunch has developed it’s own social news site – based on the Reddit source. That’s exactly the kind of [...]

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:24:10 +0000

It’s quite interesting to see TechCrunch putting up a version of Reddit, because of the recent dispute with CondeNet. Interesting…

By: Jedberg

Jedberg — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:38:36 +0000

Henry,

I understand. We just didn’t offer the customiztion you needed. Thanks for the feedback.

We’re glad you guys will be able to use our code — after all, that is one of the main reasons we released it.

Just don’t forget to make your source code public, so if you do something cool, we can fold it back into reddit.com!

By: Henry Work

Henry Work — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:31:01 +0000

Sure thing Jedberg. Thanks a lot for the open sourcing the sucker! Quite a project.

As for why we went with our own install, we’ve been thinking about doing a similar site for a while. We’d like to integrate TechNews into our properties, customize a lot of stuff, have our own branding, etc. Thanks to you guys, we have a great head start.

By: Jedberg

Jedberg — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:24:04 +0000

@Henry: Glad to see you guys are so responsive. Although you still didn’t answer my question about why you guys didn’t just make a reddit on reddit.com for this purpose months ago when that feature came out.

By: Henry Work

Henry Work — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:20:17 +0000

More DNS propagation. Sorry folks. TechNews does have feeds, they’ll be up when the DNS flushes.

By: Tim Marman

Tim Marman — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:56:50 +0000

Unless I’m missing something, TechNews doesn’t seem to have syndication feeds. Any reason for that?

By: donga

donga — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:44:53 +0000

Works for me.

By: Eze

Eze — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:28:59 +0000

You’re going to make Reddit regret they ever opened the API… I wonder how many of the technews.techcruch links overlap with Reddit’s home page – Will they bleed users as niche sites use the technology?

Same goes for Hakia who opened the API today. What is the benefit to them beyond branding?

By: Internet: TechNews: de los creadores de TechCrunch con el código de reddit - ALT1040

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:07:44 +0000

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By: Collin LaHay

Collin LaHay — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:34 +0000

Pretty cool, will be interesting to see it in a few months.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:21:03 +0000

michael and others, would you be willing to contribute to the documentation at reddit’s wiki by explaining how you ran the set up on what looks like a mediatemple box?

@jeffohara – reddit is fast and easy, pligg is great but slow and suffers from feature creep (at least in past 6 months)

By: Jeff O'Hara

Jeff O'Hara — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000

Michael,

Why don’t you guys just use pligg?

By: despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » TechNews, el Reddit de TechCrunch

despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » TechNews, el Reddit de TechCrunch — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:39:35 +0000

[...] Vía TechCrunch [...]

By: Hendra

Hendra — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:48:45 +0000

wow! t’was fast..

By: Henry Work

Henry Work — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:36:26 +0000

Jedberg: attribution is fixed.

By: Jedberg

Jedberg — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:20:14 +0000

If you really just wanted a place for your users to submit stories for you, why didn’t you just create a reddit for that purpose on reddit.com?

And technically, you’re still in violation of the license. You are supposed to include this image along with your attribution text: http://code.red...reddit_logo.png

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:19:38 +0000

kudos to TechCrunch team for getting a reddit clone up so fast. By requiring the use of reddit logo, reddit actually gains more brand recognition. Now people who visit any of the sites that uses reddit code would get familiar with the reddit alien logo as well.

By: me

me — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:09:20 +0000

well…
the more popular reddit clones will be popular and successful anyway and reddit can cover their sitting area with our code is open source and our brand is only used for acknowledgment of the original creator we do not specifically endorse the content or audiences of derivative services so if anything notorious happens they can make it look like it was not their fault

By: Webmaster Blog | TechCrunch startet eigenen Reddit Clone

Webmaster Blog | TechCrunch startet eigenen Reddit Clone — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:15:47 +0000

[...] Schonfeld von TechCrunch gibt nun bekannt, dass TechCrunch auf Basis dieser Scripte ein eigenes Social News Projekt aus der Taufe gehoben [...]

By: nobosh.com

nobosh.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:47:13 +0000

snazy

By: mike jones

mike jones — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:32:13 +0000

I’m still waiting for more Elevator Pitch videos. I love that site.