On: Reddit prepares to launch new news website 'Upvoted'

[DigitalSea]

Eh. This feels like what Digg pivoted into, a news website. Except of course, Reddit will be providing the content so it will be more straightforward. Interestingly they mention that it has been in the works for the last year, it seems like this is going to be a basic Wordpress site (unless the hosting page currently is misleading).

[almostarockstar → DigitalSea]

Using wordpress as a CMS would be quite suitable. I would assume what makes more than 'just another wordpress site' will the back end. Load balancing, caching etc.

I would have expected a custom landing page though.

[wiiittttt → almostarockstar]

DNS for the domain only has a 300 second TTL. The site can easily be pointed somewhere else before the launch.

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;upvoted.com.                   IN      A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.33
  upvoted.com.            300     IN      A       192.0.79.32

[DigitalSea → almostarockstar]

Seems they are indeed using Wordpress (based on the page source). The real site is here: https://redditupvoted.wordpress.com/ - I think you'll find they're using existing plugins for load-balancing and caching. I don't know specifics though, so a fair bit could be custom but it seems to me 90% of this site was probably design and 10% development.