friendlier phrasing; note about sister site hosting idea
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[https://lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
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[https://lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
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It is a Rails 5 codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database.
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It is a Rails 5 codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database.
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While you are free to fork this code and modify it (according to the [license](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE))
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You are free to use this code to start your own [sister site](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki)
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to run your own link aggregation website, this source code repository and bug
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because the code is availbale under a [permissive license](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/LICENSE) (3-clause BSD).
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tracker are only for the site operating at [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
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We welcome bug reports and code contributions that help use improve [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
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Please do not use the bug tracker for support related to operating your own
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As a volunteer project we're reluctant to take on work that's not useful to our site, so please understand if we don't want to adopt your custom feature.
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site unless you are contributing code that will also benefit [lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/).
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2019-05-29 experiment:
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Are you interested in running your own sister site and not technical, or otherwise willing to pay for hosting/support?
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Maybe you're a Reddit community unhappy with their redesign, want an internal site for your company, or want to experiement with community design?
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Please contact Peter (email that name @push.cx).
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I'm exploring the idea of a hosting company to run sites using the codebase, or maybe consulting on custom features, and would love to hear from you.
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(The only change to Lobsters would be that someone's getting paid to PR back bug fixes.)
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#### Contributing bugfixes and new features
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#### Contributing bugfixes and new features
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Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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We'd love to have your help.
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Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) file for details.
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#### Initial setup
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#### Initial setup
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