{"id":227553,"date":"2017-09-04T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227553"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:06:57","slug":"reddit-closing-access-to-main-code-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/227553-reddit-closing-access-to-main-code-base.html","title":{"rendered":"Reddit closing access to main code base"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reddit has stated<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will archive the open source code repositories for its main and mobile sites, as they play an increasingly smaller role in day-to-day development.<\/p>\n

Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe said they decided to open source the site so the community could keep it alive if the company failed.<\/p>\n

Over the years, this concern has fallen away, and the company has not kept its\u00a0open-source product repositories up to date.<\/p>\n

Slowe said this was for competitive reasons – as open-source makes it hard to develop features without leaking plans – and because there is no longer a\u00a0single “monolithic” version of Reddit that works using only the original repository.<\/p>\n

Development branches of Reddit’s code have also become fragmented, and merging them into the open source repository became difficult.<\/p>\n

Slowe said they will continue to open source certain tools they develop for Reddit, however, including:<\/p>\n