Writing Digg like system in django/python

Question

I am tying to write a digg , hackernews , http://collectivesys.com/ like application where users submit something and other users can vote up or down , mark items as favorite ect . I was just wondering if there are some open source implementations django/python that i could use as starting point , instead of reinventing the wheel by starting from scratch.

Answer 1

Check out Pinax and Django Pluggables for some pre-made Django apps to help you out.

Answer 2

reddit is open source, written mostly in python. Apart from the code, there might be some algorithms you may find helpful.

Answer 3

Though not written in django, reddit is written in python and is open source. From the code you could get some ideas and see how they overcame certain hurdles etc. They've open sourced everything bar their antispam measures.

Answer 4

I'd recommend taking a close look at the django-voting project on Google Code.

They claim to be an django implementation of "Reddit Style Voting"