Reddit Clone - built with Django

Live DEMO

Static and media files are powered with AWS S3.

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How things are done

Karma

Whenever user get upvote or downvote, it chages his karma. User can't interact with his own karma, but his upvote/downvote will be taken into account. It created with the help of django signals, so everytime user creates vote, it makes signal to either add or decrement from users karma.

Upvote/Downvote

Whenever user do vote, it check whether opposite vote exists or not, so it can delete it. So if user already upvoted comment a, and then he decided to revote, it will remove already existed upvote and create downvote. After vote is created, it creates signal to interact with objects creator karma.

Comment

Nested comments is made with the help of Django MPTT library.

Also, posts are paginated with infinite scroll.

Notifications

When user comments your posts, upvote/ downvote it you recieve notification. Also when user replies to your comment, upvote/downvote it, you recieve notifications.

If you will interact with your content, you won't recieve any notification. Also if you recieve a notification and user decided to remove his content or he revoted, you won't recieve new notification.

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Interactions - What user can do

Subreddits

• create
• if admin, he can set it up
• join
• left
• create post in it

Posts

• sort it by date
• create
• save
• delete
• upvote
• downvote
• comment

Comments

• create
• reply
• delete
• save
• downvote
• comment

User profile

• see activity
• see profile

If it is their profile:

• set up profile
• see upvotes/downotes, saved material

Notifications

• gets it whenever someone is interacted with their posts/comments.

Search functionality

• search for :
  • subreddit
  • post
  • user
• live search (just results that displayed instantly on navbar) for:
  • subreddit

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Technologies used:

Frontend

HTML
CSS
Django Templates
Vanilla JavaScript

Backend

Django Framework
Django Heroku 
Django Signals
SQLite3
Pillow
Django MPTT - used for making nested comments
Django Storages - used for managing static and media files on AWS S3 servers.

Instruction to run this project

1. You need to dl/clone this repository to your device.
2. Activate your virtualenv.
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt in your shell.
4. Connect your database in cna/settings.py.
5. Run migraions: type in your shell python manage.py makemigrations and python manage.py migrate.
6. Run python manage.py runserver in your shell.
7. All done!