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What powers Imgur.Com?

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While I'm relatively savvy with computers (having built several and all that), I am quite clueless when it comes to coding.

I recently had the idea to start a website for myself and family and would love to set it up with a similar aesthetic to how Imgur.com operates. Does anyone know, or can point to, what I'd need to learn to be able to create a site like that?

Here is what I'm essentially after:

() I want a user/pass login so only my family and friends can enter the site, though I am not looking to have individual user accounts. Just a single user/pass that gets you into the site.

() I want to be able to have pictures or documents uploaded

() I want galleries to be available. By definition of having no individual accounts, all pictures would be visible to all other who can access the site. Its supposed to be a collective of sorts.

Is there any programming/markup language I should focus on learning to be able to achieve this? Flash? Ajax? jQuery? Javascript?

To be honest, I don't even know what the last three are but have heard their names bantered about alot, especially in the course of an argument where Flash is being denigrated. 🙂

If any one of you has any pointers or guidance, no matter how minor, I'd be very grateful to hear what you had to say. I'm hoping that there maybe some existing templates out there from which I can learn by tweaking.

-Dig
 
Just about any CMS (Content Management System) can do this. Try DotNetNUke, Joomla, Drupal. None of them will be as optimized to show pictures as imgur.com is; however I doubt you need to show as many images as it does.
 
PHP, MySQL, jQuery. Probably all you'd need for something like that.

or

With Rails, CarrierWave (or) Paperclip, Devise.. and of course jQuery, MySQL

Its a pretty big undertaking if you're going to DIY.
 
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DigDug said:
Thanks for the responses. Does anyone know of can anyone guess as to what Imgur.com was coded in?
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99% sure it's Ruby on Rails done by a single guy/owner.

edit: he's a regular on reddit.com, posts under the name MrGrim.
 
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