frontend VS Reddit

Shameless plug: https://rings.social (GPLv3) is my attempt to build a Reddit-like social network

You can do the opposite: take the Reddit apps that aren't working anymore, do a one line change [1] (to use https://api.rings.social) and you're now able to use a Reddit client to browse Rings [2][3] - a Reddit API compatible content-voting platform licensed as AGPLv3.

[1]: https://github.com/rings-social/Infinity-For-Rings/commit/cd...

[2]: https://rings.social

[3]: https://github.com/rings-social

https://github.com/rings-social/frontend/issues/7

Hello HN!

I'm building https://rings.social in response to the Reddit API changes.

My goal is to add a compatibility layer for Reddit clients, so that the switch to Rings will include the already existing apps (Sync, RIF, Apollo, Boost, Infinity, ...).

To try it out on your own, you can compile a version of Infinity for Reddit [1] by doing a one line change [2] that uses either https://api.rings.social or your own backend running on your network.

Please, be aware, the project is still work in progress - you're free to contribute to it and send PRs. You can also help us shape the future of the project via GitHub, email or Slack. By commenting on this thread you'll already help shape it.

[1]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit

[2]: https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit/blob...

Since all the great mobile apps are shutting down due to the new API policy at Reddit, I'm building a Reddit-API compatible alternative called rings.social. The idea is to have a Reddit alternative that has a compatibility layer with the Reddit API, so that migrating away from Reddit (for the mobile app developers) is effortless.

The project is still ongoing, but developers can contribute to the frontend on GitHub and everyone can discuss about it on Slack

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit