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Of the top 100 websites (I got tired of counting) in the USA, the obvious open source ones from a quick review are,

    4. Wikipedia
    6. Reddit
    33. Wikia
    37. Wordpress
    40. Twitch
    60. Github
    61. Reddit Uploads
I'm not counting Craigslist, though its infrastructure is documented and open source, because you can't just download the engine and run it yourself without a lot of glue. Likewise Pirate Bay. There are probably more marginal cases like that among the top.

And there are open data projects like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow that essentially publish all their content on open source licenses and offer free download dumps. Both are top 100 sites.

Then there are the news sites available without paywall. Those are just basic blogs with photos, video, and text accessible to the public. They aren't open source; you have to pay to republish their content. But there is essentially no special software you can't match with any open source CMS at CNN or the Washington Post or HuffPo or many, many other top sites.

I'd say the solid majority of the top 100 sites don't have any special closed source software, except for the proprietary search engine projects: Google, Bing, Yahoo, their respective mail and document suite projects, and the like.



In what way is Twitch open source? They provide some tools to help you manage uploads and streams, but Twitch is very much closed source.


GitHub is also very much closed source.


Wow. I never knew that Reddit was open sauce: https://github.com/reddit/reddit That's an eye-opener! I always assumed Wikia was Mediawiki powered but apparently nope: https://github.com/Wikia I guess it's a separate entity to Wikipedia. Twitch don't appear to be open source but they do promote open source clients? https://www.twitch.tv/broadcast


IIRC not all of reddit is open source. The code that is in charge of vote fuzzing/scoring and spam is closed source.




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