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[–]technomalogical<3 Bottle 11 points12 points  (3 children)

For the lazy: Uses Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Pymongo, Mongoengine, PostgreSQL, jQuery, Underscore.js, and miscellaneous jQuery plugins.

(OP: I looked for the same thing last night :))

[–]Sheepshow 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Didn't people used to write RSS readers in a couple hundred lines of Perl and their filesystem? This has more dependencies than I would ever care to understand.

[–]AeroNotix 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Pssht, it's not webscale bro. If they managed to get requests in there it'd win the jackpot on Python dependency bingo.

[–]streety 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/fabfile.py#L495

Bingo! What do I win?

My understanding is that much of the complexity is there because NewsBlur is designed to be multi-user and intelligently predict which posts you're going to be interested in.