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Long story short, I made reddit river so it was easier for me to read reddit on my way home from university which takes a good 30 minutes.
The basic idea of the project was to make a lightweight version of reddit which would keep track of stories on the front page and the most popular subreddits.
The project was done in Python programming language (reddit.com is also written in this language).
There are two parts to the project - this website, done with help of web.py, and a bunch of programs which monitor the front page and subreddits for changes, keep database up to date, and find mobile versions of stories posted. For example, a link to youtube.com would get rewritten to mobile version of youtube - m.youtube.com, or a link to a page with 'print this page' link, would get rewritten to that url.
As always, I am providing the source code to my project: download redditriver.com source code.
I wrote a detailed post "designing redditriver.com website" on my blog. Read it to understand what each program does.
My name is Peteris Krumins and I am a last year physics student at University of Latvia.
I write a programming blog at good coders code, great reuse.
Trivia - my favorite subreddit is programming.
If you liked this site, check out the picture subreddit with preview thumbnails (http://reddit.picurls.com) which I made a while ago.