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posted by janrinok on Monday August 19 2019, @03:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-sleeping dept.

A submission from an AC prompted the following.

Pipedot (https://pipedot.org/) was another reaction to Slashdot Beta but didn't get going as quickly as SN. Nevertheless Bryan, the owner, created a useful site with nice features like the "Feed" page for RSS reading.

Last Thursday Aug 15, the site started sending out 502 codes in response to any attempts at access and it remained like that for a short while. We have seen no explanation regarding the outage. However, at the time of this story's writing, the site is back online again.

Pipedot is not currently accepting new stories and hasn't published one since 2017, but it hasn't gone away. Those running the site believe that it didn't justify the level of effort to keep pushing out stories when they were really competing with other Slashdot alternatives, including ourselves. But, recognising that things can change, the site is still 'live' and ready to go if needed. It provides a very useful RSS feed which is available for anyone to use and it provides a lot of useful material for potential submissions.

We have a good and friendly relationship with Pipedot and we are very happy to cooperate with them, especially as we did in the first year or two after Slashdot Beta. It is also reassuring to know that, if something unexpected happens to our own site, it would only be a matter of days before an alternative site could be up and running. We are pleased to discover that last weeks event was only a temporary blip and not a sign that Pipedot was going away. We wish them every success for the future.


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday August 20 2019, @07:23AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 20 2019, @07:23AM (#882520) Journal

    3 sites is more than doable, SN,slashdot and pipedot

    Yes, sure for the community. But finding sufficient volunteers to keep the site active 24/7 is a bigger nut to crack. And then you have to fund your project. As the Pipedot site is still sitting there they appear to have some funding to keep it going, but that might be a single server. To actually operate a site you need a bit more for redundancy etc.

    I'm not sure that checking Pipedot 'every day' will show you anything - they are not updating the stories on their main page. The RSS Feeds are a good source of material for submissions though, although you can go directly to the RSS Feeds without Pipedot. You can even use our own feeds for that purpose....

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