Alternatively, someone could write a new software with those parts of functionality that contribute to LW success. The most important part is the karma mechanism; all other parts are just “nice to have” and can be added later. You need the karma mechanism… and a good community with rational moderator.
So if the LW source code seems too difficult for some people, creating a new code (possibly in a new programming language) remains an option.
This strikes me as somewhat technically difficult: AFAIK, there’s no equivalent of Wordpress for Reddit’s source code.
Then my appeal to LW’s masters: please consider releasing an open-source toolkit that allows the creation of blogs based on the LW format.
The source is on Github. It’s open source (under the whacky licence Reddit chose, but it’s OSI-approved).
Awesome!
Alternatively, someone could write a new software with those parts of functionality that contribute to LW success. The most important part is the karma mechanism; all other parts are just “nice to have” and can be added later. You need the karma mechanism… and a good community with rational moderator.
So if the LW source code seems too difficult for some people, creating a new code (possibly in a new programming language) remains an option.