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So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.
When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.
In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.
~ NCommander
(Score: 2) by goodie on Monday November 07 2016, @03:44PM
SN is still one the main sites I visit on a regular basis. The UI is good for me, loads well even on my old crappy IPhone and the JavaScript is justified. My 2 cents still amount to being to gain access to some public data so that we can "mine" (don't like that word but I have nothing else) what goes on in SN and see how to improve it. This has been suggested in the past and in another reply for this thread (indirectly by saying we need more provocative stories to foster more comments), I think that gaining a better sense as to how we are doing through empirical data accessible to all could only help. I don't have time to write a scraper right now but I want to actually analyze the evolution of SN, even basic stats could be helpful in my opinion. But maybe you guys already do all that :)
Other than that I'm a happy camper :).
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @04:28PM
Get me a detailed list of what you'd like to see and I'll see how much of it is viable for putting in the API.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @09:54PM
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:05AM
I don't know where (if any docs) we have for it, but https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash/blob/master/plugins/API/api.pl [github.com]
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:09AM
Here ya go, boss guy: https://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/ApiDocs [soylentnews.org]
My rights don't end where your fear begins.