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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the man-behind-the-curtain dept.

mattie_p paraphrases Barrabas, who uttered these words (mostly):

To everyone who contributed to the initial roll out, thank you! It was an amazing effort, and we couldn't have done it without you.

I've set down some notes, with an overview of where I see the project heading in the next few weeks. As always, we can stop and discuss if the community feels we should be moving in a different direction.

We have had a wildly successful launch, and can now proceed at a slightly more leisurely pace, at least for the team that handles code development. I have always intended to do development the right way; with a strong foundation of tools and with leaders to oversee and coordinate the effort between individuals and other groups. As a result, this upcoming week I've told our system administrator team to take a break. They can certainly do minor bug fixes at a leisurely pace if they feel bored, but I want a team that is relaxed and refreshed.

Speaking of a team, we actually have at least five of them. There is a systems team, which are primarily concerned with systems and server issues. There is a development team, consisting of people who contribute code to the site. There is a content team, consisting of our editors, artists, and administrators of our wiki, forum, and IRC channels. A fourth group is style, representing those who help determine how the site is presented. Finally, we have our business team, which includes marketing, legal, finances, and other such issues.

This has been an exciting time. I understand there has been some concern about decisions made during first roll out. I promised that we would operate by community consensus, and I will abide by that. Look for opportunities to contribute to the future direction of SoylentNews over the upcoming days and weeks.

(To read the full story in his words, simply go to Barrabas's Journal Entry. (internal hyperlink))

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:40PM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:40PM (#2483) Homepage

    Where we go from here is obvious: we build up the community by making this a great place to read news, comment, and learn from other nerds. That requires a sort of dedication to submitting interesting articles, diligence in moderation, and so on.

    Congrats to the team that got the site up and running. Yes, it looks like the year 2000 again, but I say f*ck it! 2000 was a great time for the web! Web 2.0 kind of sucked, and Web 3.0 is even worse.

    We're off to a great start. Now let's get the word out and make sure nerds that want interesting news know to come here first.

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  • (Score: 1) by Pav on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:43PM

    by Pav (114) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:43PM (#2486)

    Amen... it's the community that makes or breaks a site in the final analysis.

  • (Score: 1) by meisterister on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:13AM

    by meisterister (949) on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:13AM (#2992) Journal

    Speaking of Web 2.0/3.0/whatever buzzword to use for it now is, would it be a good idea to make SoylentNews pages on Google+/Facebook/Twitter/whatever so that we could suck in more users?

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