The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Whoever on Friday November 03 2017, @11:33PM (13 children)
We are going to discuss this piece of fluff, while the most important study on climate change is being ignored?
Is it perhaps that the climate study change has a conclusion that doesn't accord with the biases of the administrators here?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @11:37PM
Fuck you and your co2 nazis.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Friday November 03 2017, @11:54PM (3 children)
Your story was posted a few minutes ago by martyb.
Submissions that were made before yours are normally prioritized. This one was posted on Nov. 1.
Whining about your own non-breaking sub that has been around for less than a day? Not really a good habit. But go ahead and throw some shade on the editors with your false accusation.
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:29AM (2 children)
Like these two submissions, which were submitted after mine, but appear (if I understand the times correctly) to be scheduled to appear on the front page before mine?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:36AM
You have a better timeslot than they do. 8 AM eastern instead of the 3:30-6:00 AM eastern no man's land.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by martyb on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:19AM
This site is NOT your personal sounding board to post stories at YOUR whim.
We have a community here, of whom you are one member. The editors try to find a balance of stories that we think will be of interest to as many in the community as possible. Part of that process is being aware that, say, releasing four linux-related stories in a row would not go over well. We try to choose "a little of this, a little of that". We most certainly DO NOT accept stories in the exact same order that they were submitted! Your story WAS accepted and will appear in due time.
Again, from the Submissions Guidelines [soylentnews.org] aka FAQ: "Don't grumble about declining of your submission." You've already started to sidetrack THIS story's comments. I do not think you want someone doing the same to YOUR submission, right? Please extend the same courtesy to the rest of the community.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 5, Informative) by martyb on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:01AM (3 children)
FYI, I spent approximately 10PM to midnight, my local time, queuing up stories for this site last night. And I was up at just after 6am to get ready for work. Then, after a full day at work, I got some groceries, made and ate my dinner, caught up on site happenings in our IRC channels, and then took a look at the story queue. We were down to 4 pending stories (i.e. queued up for release but had not yet been posted to the main page.) So, I hunkered down and pushed out another 9 stories.
Now, I would have liked to have just kicked my feet up and watched a DVD or somesuch, but instead decided to volunteer my limited spare time for this site.
Given a choice, I like to give a little preference to new and/or rarely submitting folk... I know what it is like to wait to see if my story submission makes it out to the site.
I see you've are an active commenter on this site - thank you. Maybe you are unaware what goes into getting a story out. I know I was stunned at how much happens 'behind the scenes' to get a story out the door when I volunteered as an editor.
If you check you submissions page, you'll see that your submission has already been accepted.
If you take another looks at the page where you submit a story, there is a link to the Submissions Guidelines [soylentnews.org]. On that page, among many other helpful suggestions, is this one:
I'm rather much exhausted at the moment, so this may not have come across as well as I would like.
tl;dr: There's a lot more going on here than you knew. Now you know.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:54AM
I'll exploit this ill-conceived whinethread for an opportunity to thank martyb and the other editors and staff for their work in keeping SN running for us social misfits. We complain because we love :)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by canopic jug on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:30AM
Now, I would have liked to have just kicked my feet up and watched a DVD or somesuch, but instead decided to volunteer my limited spare time for this site.
It really is appreciated around here, even if you don't often get to read statments of such.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2, Informative) by pr on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:35PM
Thanks to the editors from me too. The stories are great. And thanks to the submitters and the posters for that matter.
Cool. I'll go back to lurking now!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:13AM (2 children)
and eventually so is the fate of the web.
We are about 3 or 4 generations away from ceasing to be human in the classic sense. Homo sapiens is evolving toward extinction, to be replaced by homo robitiens, AI-programmed, DNA-engineered commodity beings with no vestiges of individuality, critical thinking, or originality.
"Legacy" humans lacking technological improvements will be preserved as lab/zoo specimens, if at all.
Welcome to the future we're creating right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:38AM
I welcome this future.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:05AM
The real problem is, how will we notice the change :)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:32AM
Why do I get the feeling you want to force people into listening only to groupthink that aligns with your political beliefs, likely removing all other discourse so people have no choice but to listen to you or listen to nothing, and subsequently to be pressganged into silence or crybullied into pseudo-agreement?
Probably because when it comes right down to it you almost certainly do.
People don't appreciate having other discussions muted so you can cram your opinions down their throats. You would do well to keep that in mind.