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NCommander
on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:01PM
from the help-us-become-financially-independent dept.
from the help-us-become-financially-independent dept.
It's been a long, hard road to this point, but I'm pleased to announce that effective immediately, we are officially accepting subscriptions to SoylentNews. Subscription support is an important step in helping make SoylentNews successful as an independent entity that is fully funded by its users. In case you don't remember, here's the rundown of subscription features:
- Subscriber badge (toggleable)
- Early access to features
- Exemption from ads if we ever run any
- Full comment histories/access to database-intensive operations
- No rate limiting or spam filtering
You can purchase a subscription on your user panel, or by clicking this link. Subscriptions are $20/year, and you can be reminded via email when that period is coming to an end via subscription settings. All payments are currently processed by PayPal, but we hope to add new merchant support in the future.
Here's hoping to seeing lots of stars in the near future!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by strattitarius on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:33PM
Full comment histories/access to database-intensive operations
Are you giving people read-only access to the logs? A data warehouse? What if I don't want anyone with $20 to look at my "life" history on SN? That's part of why I dropped social media. What if I am a Brit and want to be forgotten?
These are some of my concerns with that "feature".
Slashdot Beta Sucks. Soylent Alpha Rules. News at 11.
(Score: 3, Funny) by buswolley on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:43PM
Its already available via google.
subicular junctures
(Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:14PM
Why is this moderated funny?
Everyone's got their panties in a bunch about being able to scrape a user's comments "with only 20$ in their pockets" like the information would be private otherwise :)
Just search Google with this:
Should be modded informative. What can you get with a subscription that I just didn't hand to you on a plate?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:03PM
Absolutely not. We're just going to be allowing them to do things that hammer our database harder than we'd normally allow. I can't give you an example off the top of my head except for full comments history and lack of posting delays as I'm fairly certain we've not implemented any others. Yet.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:16PM
ok so to be clear we are not talking direct DB access for querying purposes like was mentioned at some point in the past few weeks/months? Just to be clear, because I would have been interested in that to draw some trends on SN data :)
I am guessing then that will be implemented in the form of "restricted" features accessible through the site itself.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:30PM
Right, website features. I think what was previously discussed was hosting your own db on our servers as part of a subscription but that's not in planning at the moment that I know of. We can't exactly go giving out database access to our production db with a list of every user's email address in it; that's just not going to happen unless we all wake up evil one morning.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by edIII on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:16PM
Well.. then let's hope you guys don't run out of coffee.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:43PM
Slashdot Beta Sucks. Soylent Alpha Rules. News at 11.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 28 2014, @06:06PM
As well you should. Anyone with access to the production DB has more access than almost all of the staff. Good to see other mods fixing a bad one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:24PM
It's a great question. I think it's a moot point though. If we really want to be private like that then we have to stop letting Google index the pages.
I posted it in a reply to another comment, but advanced search with Google combined with a little bit of regex and curl can get me a list of all your comments with metadata.
strattitarius (3191) site: soylentnews.org
I immediately tried it, and I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it. Then again, I trust SoylentNews.org to not allow email addresses, real names, and other user metadata from being associated with my user id that I don't let be public already.
There are forums that are not publicly searchable unless you log-in, and that allows you to mitigate such scraping attempts. Don't think that's the right path for SoylentNews myself.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Thursday August 28 2014, @07:36PM
I am more worried about emails addresses and ip addresses. And probably other things I can't even think of right now.
Slashdot Beta Sucks. Soylent Alpha Rules. News at 11.