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No plan to open source it, but there are plans to api it and expose a number of key feeds for users to create and help develop. Similar goals, but different approach and no risk to data.
A lot more on this later. Subnet and I will be heading up how we can best do this to encourage the community to create and share. I would say we are a year out from this although we do have some internal apis, so it is possible we have a few things available before year end.
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APIs are well and good but make sure the user experience isn't forgotten.
Make sure you have a security audit on your new APIs before they're released; hacking attempts are guaranteed and sophisticated.
I hope the suggestion to open source isn't permanently dismissed; one of the problems open sourcing this would help with is building a community/pool of libertarian/conservative engineers to work on something together, see each others abilities, and network.
If I wanted to hire libertarian/conservative friendly engineers, where would I go to find them? Linked in? lol. Where would I go to find conservative friendly general consulting vendors? Do they even exist?
Open sourcing the site would provide an additional means of community/member engagement, as we as other tangential values. Not to mention free labor.
It wouldn't solve world hunger, but I think it would be a good thing and should be considered.