Monday, June 13, 2011

A Shout-out to the Sorcerers:

Here at reddit, we're built on top of a ton of ridiculously awesome open source technologies. In the three years since the original open source release (the 3rd anniversary is on Friday), we've been surprised and delighted by the myriad projects powered by reddit and using the reddit API.

Over the past few months, Neil (spladug) has been hard at work updating, documenting, and migrating the open source reddit project to a new home, thanks to our friends at GitHub. GitHub makes collaborating and contributing to reddit easier than ever.

reddit open source


Lately, we've been seeing (and discussing) a lot of your cool ideas for features to add to reddit. We'd like to remind you that if you have an idea, we're listening. Additionally, if you're willing to experiment, the best thing you can do by far is pull down the source code and start exploring.

When new engineers start here, the first thing we do is set up a local instance of reddit, and you can too, thanks to Neil's handy install script. Once you're finished, come join the community on reddit and IRC!

So, got a cool idea? Let's discuss it with the community over in /r/ideasfortheadmins.

Got a code question? Post it to /r/redditdev or #reddit-dev.

Found a bug? Please post it with clear instructions on how to reproduce it to our issue tracker.

Finally, ready to get coding? Fork our git repository and send us a pull request when you're done. We're happy to work with you to get it into the codebase.
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