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stderr writes: "I used to visit a certain website quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters" fix. So, SoylentNews, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?"
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Schafer2 on Monday February 17 2014, @09:57PM
Bruce
For those that don't recognize the name, Google Bruce Perens. He has a long, solid history with our community. He's helped define the open source movement, lead Debian, and your home router is probably running some of his code.
Technocrat.net /. beta progressed, I thought his resurrection of Technocrat.net would be the best option, and said so. While working on the site, it would have been nice if he had URL forwarded Technocrat.net to Slashdot classic--it would have been a great way to indicate who was ready to move, both to ourselves and to Dice.
As the
Technocrat.net vs. SoylentNews /. links. Of course, I'll give Technocrat.net a try once ready, but I feel really good about SN starting out from the best of what /. was in the past.
It was disappointing to see Bruce take a dig at the SoylentNews team on the Technocrat.net placeholder page. Due to the heroic efforts of the SN team, I've already changed out my
(Score: 0) by buswolley on Monday February 17 2014, @10:06PM
Well. Welcome. :)
The revolution turns on itself?
nah...there isnt a revolution.
subicular junctures
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bruce Perens on Monday February 17 2014, @10:39PM
What was I supposed to forward to? Soylent news just went live yesterday, at which point I already had news about the new site debut posted at technocrat.net.
I'm impressed by the success of the SN team with the old slashcode. But IMO, the Slashcode has always been a pain to maintain (I ran it a long time ago) and the effort to bring it forward to work with today's software will get thrown away, unless you want to stick with that software forever, which isn't the best idea. I know spending any more time with that code would have made me really unhappy. And it took me a week to bring up basic Rails code with many the features I wanted, from zero, working alone. It would have taken less time, but I've had to get up to speed with changes in Rails 3 and 4 since I've done much web development.
(Score: 2) by tdk on Monday February 17 2014, @11:03PM
When I first set up squte.com as a slashdot look-a-like, I tried to use slashcode but found it so difficult, that like you I gave it up for a more modern framework. Other people had similar problems. [kuro5hin.org]
All of which just makes the achievements of the soylent news dev team more impressive. Maybe they should move to something more modern - but the goal was to get something as similar to /. up as quickly as possible. There'll be plenty of time later to experiment.
Take back your internet [squte.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:31AM
As others have pointed out, the "killer" feature of Slashcode is the mod/commenting system. So far, no other forum code has been able to match it feature-for-feature, but I'm sure a lot of developers out there have recently been inspired to try!
(Score: 1) by tdk on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:34PM
There are a few projects that use Slashdot type moderation. See scoop [kuro5hin.org] and slashcomments [drupal.org].
Take back your internet [squte.com]