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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: 2, Interesting) by chown on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:42AM
Good job with this site!
This is not directly related to the article, but I want to mention this somewhere: does anyone know if there is a copy of the content on slashdot somewhere for archival? Don't know if www.archive.org contains every single post from slashdot. I'm asking because like a lot of you, I've immensely enjoyed slashdot over the years, and it would suck to find out that the content got destroyed accidentally (or deliberately) a month after Dice pulled the plug on slashdot.
(Score: 1) by chown on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:45AM
Oh Heavens Be Praised! It's great to see a "plain old text" option (that too the default) right next to the submit button! As opposed to the click-and-wait on slashdot's current incarnation.