This repository contains historical source code from reddit.com, the social news and discussion platform, written in Python and JavaScript. It is an archived snapshot of the codebase from an earlier period in Reddit's history and is no longer actively maintained or updated. The repository does not accept new issues or pull requests. The code gives a rare look at how a large, real-world web platform was built during an earlier era of web development. It includes the backend server code and related components that powered the reddit.com site. For anyone interested in studying how Reddit worked under the hood, or in historical examples of Python-based web application architecture at scale, this is a primary source. You would look at this repository out of historical or educational interest, to understand how Reddit's codebase was structured, or to set up your own local instance of an older version of Reddit using the included install guide. It is not suitable for building on top of or deploying in any modern context, as it is frozen and unsupported.
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