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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))
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by number6 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @04:49PM
Dear development team,
Regarding hidden comments; I do not find them informative enough.
Could you please allow some words from the comment body to display when the comment is collapsed/hidden?
An example:
This is how it is now: :: @Pav (Score:1) Wednesday February 19, @09:43AM
o Re:Now we build a community
This is how I prefer it to be: :: @Pav :: Amen... it's the community that makes or breaks a site in the final analysis.
o Re:Now we build a community
The string "(Score:1) Wednesday February 19, @09:43AM" is metadata which has nothing useful to tell me until I expand the comment and give it my attention. By including a snippet of the commenter's text, I get some instant critical feedback allowing me to make a judgement call about skipping-over or taking the time to expand and read.
(Score: 1) by darnkitten on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:28AM
Possible OT; when I click on hidden comments, they open in another tab, instead of expanding. This used to happen on /., but, for the life of me, I can't remember how it was fixed. Can someone let me know which setting to use to either expand hidden comments or to force an "Expand all?"
(Score: 1) by number6 on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:32AM
There is a script for Greasemonkey (Firefox addon) which allows you to do what you want.
Slashdot Expandable Comment Tree v2
Adds [+][-] symbols next to all comments allowing you to expand and collapse any of them for viewing.
The script is here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38184 [userscripts.org]
To modify the script to work on SoylentNews:
Open the script in a text editor, and add this line:
// @include http*://*soylentnews.org/*
(Score: 1) by darnkitten on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:25PM
Thanks--I wasn't able to get it to work (I don't know why, probably interference fromsome extension or other), but switching to "Nested" in the prefs seems to do the job.