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:
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: 2) by gringer on Wednesday October 14 2015, @06:12PM
So presumably the comment counter is that unique comment ID at the top of each post, and we're less than 500 posts away from number 250k. Why not just have a megathread here where people do something inane to go over 250k:
~249,540 soylent posts on the site,
~249,540 soylent posts,
Reply to one, pass it around,
~249,541 soylent posts on the site.
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by gringer on Wednesday October 14 2015, @06:15PM
Hey, I got it right! Let's see if that works again:
249,541 soylent posts on the site,
249,541 soylent posts,
Reply to one, pass it around,
249,542 soylent posts on the site.
Ask me about Sequencing DNA in front of Linus Torvalds [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 15 2015, @12:20AM
and we go into meta...
249,542 soylent posts on the site,
249,542 soylent posts,
Reply to one, Is Ethanol-Fueled around?
249,543 soylent posts on the site.