Please Open Source The Code For This Site So Others May Live

submitted by AllAmericanAdonis

Great job on this site, did you use the open source version of Reddit code or code it from the ground up?

1.) For the source code to be fully open sourced so it can be inspected for vulnerabilities that could result in a very devastating data breach, and to allow other sub-reddits to exit the reddit.com platform as quickly as possible. You can use static code analyzers such as https://scan.coverity.com/ to find possible bugs if the site is coded in a supported language.

) Implement a modsecurity WAF (web applicaiton firewall) as soon as possible.

3.) Discontinue use of the Google CAPTCHA as it can be used to spy. Please implement literally any other CAPTCHA such as a slider puzzle piece that is not make any callbacks to Google.

4.) Setup a Bitcoin and/or Monero donation wallet.

) Consider publishing near real-time stats on replies, threads, and users.

Great job on this site, did you use the open source version of Reddit code or code it from the ground up? 1.) For the source code to be fully open sourced so it can be inspected for vulnerabilities that could result in a very devastating data breach, and to allow other sub-reddits to exit the reddit.com platform as quickly as possible. You can use static code analyzers such as https://scan.coverity.com/ to find possible bugs if the site is coded in a supported language. 2. ) Implement a modsecurity WAF (web applicaiton firewall) as soon as possible. 3.) Discontinue use of the Google CAPTCHA as it can be used to spy. Please implement literally any other CAPTCHA such as a slider puzzle piece that is not make any callbacks to Google. 4.) Setup a Bitcoin and/or Monero donation wallet. 5. ) Consider publishing near real-time stats on replies, threads, and users.

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– ncmarc (3 points)

This could lead to a fragment of more TheDonald sites. It can lead to people finding vunerabilities and not telling us, and exploiting the site.
It's running on CloudFlare right now. Not ideal, but there are other solutions out there if the mods need to go there. I've suggested some already.
There are plans to not rely on 3rd parties already
Right now, the mods are self-funding this. It's not insanely expensive, yet.
They are working on that.

I am a full-stack programmer and I do full-service web hosting for a living in a secured data center. I could knock out a lot of these simple feature requests. They may have their reasons for not publishing that stuff yet.

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– WinstonSmith1984 (0 points)

I wonder how many of us are here? I'm also full-stack and have been doing it for almost 30 years now