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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @08:04PM   
from the certainly-not-here dept.

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?"

• Re:Technocrat.net will be around as well Re:Technocrat.net will be around as well (Score: 3, Informative) by Bruce Perens on Monday February 17 2014, @10:39PM

  by Bruce Perens (916) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:39PM (#1137) Homepage

  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.

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  Starting Score:	1		point
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  Insightful=1, Informative=1, Total=2
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  Total Score:		3

• slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of us slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of us (Score: 2) by tdk on Monday February 17 2014, @11:03PM

  by tdk (346) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:03PM (#1155) Homepage Journal

  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.

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  • Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:31AM (#2186)

    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!

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    • Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of (Score: 1) by tdk on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:34PM

      by tdk (346) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @12:34PM (#2374) Homepage Journal

      There are a few projects that use Slashdot type moderation. See scoop [kuro5hin.org] and slashcomments [drupal.org].

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