The authors of Raddit tried that, but found that actually running Reddit's software, especially on low-end hardware for a smaller community, was a pain in the arse and decided it'd be easier to build their own that fit their purposes.
Unfortunately, it looks like it's not quite released yet. If you want to write your own in Ruby on Rails, this plug-in might be useful: http://rateableplugin.rubyforge.org/
3. No. As someone else mentioned, reddit uses the python framework web.py. This site uses an unreleased version of LISP: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html
4. Good luck.
5. You should check back on this site frequently because a lot of these issues get discussed here often. There seems to be a good mix of hackers and non-hackers.
Are there any alternative (open source) implementations of the _server_ side of the Reddit API? Then you could just point Teddit, Aurora, etc. at the alternative server. The only required work would be implementing the database backend which seems... feasible.
Do they have to create a "product"? Reddit is open source, and you can download it if you like, from http://code.reddit.com/ .
You could literally build what you are describing on the Reddit platform right now.
There's also teddit.net, a reddit mirror that uses the reddit API to present a light weight skin. It is a bit too slow for me, and the features are pretty lacking. I don't think a spartan "no javascript" take is what's needed to cure the garbage that is full reddit web experience. Still it's a good first attempt.
I'm hoping someone will come along and create a lean, mean, yet functional semantic reddit web frontend.... That is, before reddit kills their API.
i wonder if someone will replicate the old reddit using reddit's api. i mean, there are full featured mobile clients, i wonder if the api licensing would allow it.
Libreddit (https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) is a great, free and fast alternative frontend to reddit that you can self host.
It's got none of the problems all the different official front ends have.
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