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: 3, Insightful) by dublet on Wednesday October 14 2015, @06:22PM
Seeing those numbers, I decided to do the only think I could do. Subscribe myself.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome. [dublet.org]"
(Score: 1) by cngn on Thursday October 15 2015, @04:31AM
HTF do I have this?
- Your subscription ends 2022-08-26 UTC.
Is that a mistake or am I the mistake?
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday October 17 2015, @06:06PM
I checked the billing records; its correct. For every $20 dollars you put in the box, you get a year on the clock; that's a change in behavior due to an oversight when we originally coded it (originally, you got a year no matter how much you put in). We retroactively extended subscriptions to fit this model, and I probably forgot to write a novel that we did so.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by cngn on Sunday October 18 2015, @11:00PM
Thanks for the clarification NC, damn... I hope I live that long...