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As someone who pays an inordinate amount of time pondering things, I noticed some recent milestones for SoylentNews and thought these might be of interest to the rest of the community. In round numbers we have:
- 20 Months since SoylentNews went live (on February 14th, 2014.)
- 20 Current staffers who keep things running.
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200150 Subscribers.[*] - 5,900 Registered users.
- 8,400 Stories posted.
- 10,000 Stories submitted.
- 250,000 Comments posted (almost -- who will get it?)
- 166,770,000 page hits on the site (yes, 1/6 of a Billion!)
What started as a protest activity (The Slashcott) burgeoned into action in the form of taking a several-years-old, non-maintained code base and, through the alchemy of dedication and sleep deprivation, came to be known as SoylentNews. There were numerous site crashes and outages, but things gradually stabilized. We were incorporated (completed on July 4th, aptly enough). Other niceties started to make their way onto the site: moderation changes, User Interface (UI) enhancements, Unicode support, apache and mod-perl upgrades, and countless other behind-the-scenes tweaks and tunings to get things to where they are now.
Besides the main site, I would be remiss if I did not mention that we also have our own Wiki and an active Internet Relay Chat (IRC) community.
Most importantly, it is our community that drives us! Thank you for all the story submissions, for all the comments on those stories, and for your feedback on site improvement ideas.
[*] The original value of 200 for the number of subscribers was an estimate; the correct number was 150. Updated this story for posterity.
To those who have started or extended their subscription please accept our genuine and sincere thanks — we could NOT do it without you! -Ed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Wednesday October 14 2015, @04:15PM
The people here, even the ones I've had severe disagreements with, I actually like. Maybe respect is a better word. Thank you all.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Wednesday October 14 2015, @04:46PM
I've found in my experience that a community tends to reflect those who run it. Everyone here knows the value of the community, and when someone says something, we respond and try to fix it if possible. It's one of the things I'm most proud about our staff as a collective whole.
I'm a relatively hands off leader and as of late, I've had very little time for SN in the last two months, but even if I was to bail out of the project, I'm well confident that attitude would remain because its so ingrained into everyone who continues time, effort, and comments.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday October 14 2015, @09:57PM
Here, hate posts are almost guaranteed to come from ACs.
There, its the same, but 90 percent of the posts over there are from ACs (statistics pulled directly from thin air).
So naturally there was more hate spewed there.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 14 2015, @10:03PM
What I like about Soylent is close to what you've said, "The people here, even the ones I've had severe disagreements with, I actually like. Maybe respect is a better word. Thank you all." I really despise certain aspects of certain world-views. I really, truly categorically reject what certain users have to say on some topics. Then, give it a day or a topic change and the same users post something that expands my universe.
Where else do you get that?
Washington DC delenda est.