Quote: (06-10-2015 06:59 PM)Robert Guiscard Wrote:
Quote: (06-10-2015 05:53 PM)samsamsam Wrote:
Just a technical question how hard is it to create something like reddit? I mean it isn't the most beautiful website out there.
It's open source, so you wouldn't have to rebuild it: https://github.com/reddit/reddit. There are already sites using that codebase e.g.: https://voat.co/ & http://lesswrong.com/. The real trick is that it's operationally challenging to support the huge volume of traffic reddit receives; voat is presently receiving a lot of traffic from the now dead /r/fatpeoplehate, and at the time of this post, pretty much unusable due to its inability to handle the load.
Yes and no.
Any site that experiences a sudden, massive, surge of traffic beyond what it's servers can handle will have issues.
If voat had known this was coming they could have raised their capacity and been prepared for it fairly easily.