HN is (roughly) open source: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc although it doesn't necessarily correspond to the currently running version. You can do the facelift yourself via any number of Stylish userscripts.
Reddit's source code is going to be relatively specialized for their architecture (Cassandra and EC2 and whatever else), and piggybacking on a subreddit is going to encourage bleed, lower control (e.g. pg restricting signups at times), and change the value of karma to represent a cross-culture value instead of what's valued locally.
What advantages are there for merging? You save one password?
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I'm not sure if it is already, but I think it would be pretty great if HN was open source.
The front-end could do with a bit of a facelift, too.
And hey, I've said it before, but we could just switch to Reddit's codebase. Or even operate like http://www.thecutelist.com/, which just points to a modified http://www.reddit.com/r/aww
http://news.ycombinator.com/ could point to http://www.reddit.com/r/hacker_news, for example.
HN is (roughly) open source: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc although it doesn't necessarily correspond to the currently running version. You can do the facelift yourself via any number of Stylish userscripts.
Reddit's source code is going to be relatively specialized for their architecture (Cassandra and EC2 and whatever else), and piggybacking on a subreddit is going to encourage bleed, lower control (e.g. pg restricting signups at times), and change the value of karma to represent a cross-culture value instead of what's valued locally.
What advantages are there for merging? You save one password?