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Hey, just a heads up on our Day 1 status. I've made some tweaks to the moderation script to handle the surge of users we've gotten, so modpoints should start flowing more easily. I'm making a few more tweaks right now that should get this working as expected (I am going to have to purge out the point in system to reset the script though, so if you have modpoints right now, don't be surprised if they suddenly vanish into the ether.
We know there have been some issues with both registration and submitting stories. On the registration front, some of our emails have been marked as spam, so if you're not getting them, check spam filters. In addition, for the last half an hour, we had a problem with a human confirmation check breaking, which just got cleared. We'll keep you apprised of any updates to this. As for story submissions, this looks like an artifact of a human confirmation script that got re-enabled when we went live. It should be working properly now for logged in users, as well as AC, though I'll be keeping an eye on it. I hope to have a more verbose tech write-up of the site sometime tonight.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DarkMorph on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:10AM
Congrats on the first 1,000 users within a day or so.
The turnaround has been really good, though. Ironically the duration of the slashcott was more or less how long it took to get this site up and running. Even with all the outstanding reported bugs this page is slick and quick, just as it should be. Even the JavaScript-hating crowd is appeased.
Hopefully the odd bug has been fixed where articles would not show up based on your timezone settings. UTF-8 is still quirky; I tried to type a message in Japanese and the preview was completely blank.
There was a rumour in the chat about posts being removed/censored on /. if there were references to SoylentNews...
(Score: 1) by KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:15AM
I haven't found myself victim of that rumor. I've had a couple of comments posted since then, not an issue.
Of course, if they removed anything with Soylentnews in it, they'd be removing a huge chunk of their database, with as often as I posted there.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by NCommander on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:16AM
Yeah, it seems to actually be dependent partially on what's going in. The validator having some sanity issues which weren't QUITE so bad during internal testing. The trick is to just hit submit without previewing which seems to work every time. Its known, but not super high priority.
Still always moving
(Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:03AM
But not the JavaScript-liking crowd. I miss being able to reply, fetch hidden messages in a thread, and see previews without having to open a load of tabs.
1K users is a good milestone, but some of those are duplicate accounts. It will take a while to build the momentum - you need to be getting around 100 comments per story to avoid suffering the same fate as Technorati (anyone remember that? Bruce Perens' attempt at a Slashdot replacement some years ago), which suffered from having more interesting stories but no comments - and no one read Slashdot for the stories. At the moment, every registered user needs to comment on at least one or two stories a day to get that volume of comments, which is probably feasible for now given that the most motivated people came here, but needs a lot more growth to be sustainable. The other place has around 2-3 million registered users, but rarely manages more than 200 comments per story (unless it's about Obama, and then you get 400 blue trolls and 400 red trolls).
sudo mod me up
(Score: 1) by mtrycz on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:14AM
I feel you. I personally would like to implement this, but this whole thing happened at the wrong moment, and all I can do for now is report bug.
If it isn't done for march, I'll happily volunteer, tho. Of course you are welcome to do so too ;)
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(Score: 1) by Darth Turbogeek on Tuesday February 18 2014, @11:50AM
Post about Obama liking or hiting Slashdot Beta, that seems like a good troll to get volume discussion going.
Good work new Overlords, great to see this place emerge.