Yes, the code is open source. Yes, it’s a fork of the reddit code.
TrikeApps takes care of the website as a volunteer effort to help MIRI. But LW isn’t a high priority for either of them.
The github link on the source code page is dead but I managed to find this.
The code hasn’t been touched since 2009. Would it be possible that the same iteration of the code is the one that currently powers lesswrong ?
Yes, the code is open source. Yes, it’s a fork of the reddit code. TrikeApps takes care of the website as a volunteer effort to help MIRI. But LW isn’t a high priority for either of them.
The code is on Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/
The github link on the source code page is dead but I managed to find this. The code hasn’t been touched since 2009. Would it be possible that the same iteration of the code is the one that currently powers lesswrong ?
https://github.com/jsomers/lesswrong