I considered another approach: reverse-engineer HackerNews and use that as the foundation to be adapted to LW’s unique needs
Currently HackerNews and LW both run on the Reddit code base. On of the problems is that Reddit didn’t design their software to be easily adopted to new projects. That means it’s not easily possible to update the code with new versions.
A database, possibly NoSql given the nature of the data that needs to be stored (posts, comments, etc).
Currently HackerNews and LW both run on the Reddit code base. On of the problems is that Reddit didn’t design their software to be easily adopted to new projects. That means it’s not easily possible to update the code with new versions.
A lot of the data will be votes.
Nitpick: Hackernews isn’t reddit derived. It is some written in arc. And not open source.