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posted by NCommander on Monday February 24 2014, @04:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the notes-from-underground dept.
Well, we've survived our first week as a functional website, and have yet to go belly up because of it. The speed and growth of our community is staggering to say the least, and we are working hard to get this site fully operational. I'm pleased to announce that a development VM is now available for public consumption, and if you're interested in site development, one should join us in #dev on irc.soylentnews.org. Beyond that though, I've got a few points to address on and updated statistics to share ...First things first. I've heard you loud and clear on the topic of moderation, and I've been reading the feedback on my journal entries about that. Right now, I plan to have an "Ask Soylent" article addressing moderation on the main page about a week from now. I'm waiting to get a real solid base of real work numbers to work from so people can discuss it in a rational matter. Please remember what we have now was a temporary hack to make moderation work, and it has always been intended to be reworked since its initial implementation. Keep a look out for that post and we can get that dialogue fully open and in both directions.

Secondly, as I said above, the dev VM is now publicly available. With this new development, anyone welcome to come by #dev, and join the dev team. Right now, very little exists as "hard documentation", so that's my next TODO. Until then, drop by chat to get access to knowledgeable gurus. During creation of the VM, I took detailed notes of how to go from nothing to working slashsite, which will form the basis of our INSTALL doc, and allow for those to build VMs from scratch. Due to stupidity, this initial VM requires a 64-bit capable processor; future VMs will be i386 compatible. The VM itself is running Ubuntu 12.04.4, and is a setup similar to the current production machines (sans varnish). If you want to dive in, fire up your BitTorrent app, and grab the torrent. Thanks to stderr for setting up the tracker and hosting the 980 MiB file. For those downloading the image, the SHA1 of the OVA file is bbafa7316bd28f23d0a5b386fca85429a2575db8. These files can be used with VirtualBox (use File -> Import Appliance to install it).

Finally, I wanted to close off with our stats from midnight last night to give you an idea of how much we've grown.

SoylentNews Stats for 2014-02-22

                   UIDs      IPIDs      Pages
        total:        -          -     415733 (12139.6 MB)
 static total:        -          -      29520
gstatic total:        -          -      40622
  grand total:     2645      14672     427099 (12228.2 MB)
 secure total:        -          -          0

        posts:      160        194
     comments:     1722       5791     125373 (3027.2 MB)
        index:     2514       7861      69335
     articles:     2168       9722      68243 (3762.6 MB)
       search:      668       1823       5798 (109.2 MB)
     journals:      969       1804       6442 (124.0 MB)
        users:     1982       2975      24588 (423.7 MB)
          rss:      167        562      11366 (88.6 MB)
        other:       43         52       2086 (37.0 MB)


     formkeys:      837 rows total
     comments:      397 posted yesterday
  submissions:       14 submissions
 sub/comments:     57.1% of the submissions came from comment posters from this day



       errors:      377 pages logged 5xx errors
    not found:    49265 pages sent with status 404 (not found)

   total hits:  1486073





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                            Yesterday   | 2 days ago | 3 days ago
    Avg Hits Per Article:         4874.5|      4316.4|      2908.0
Avg Comments Per Article:           21.9|        36.3|        52.9



Pages From RSS By Section
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Section		         Pages     UIDS    IPIDS
           Main Page      5866      161      858



For Main Page
                  Pages      IPs   Bandwidth    Users
        total:   415733    14572  12139.6 MB     2645
        index:    69335     7861   3182.0 MB     2514
     comments:   125373     5791   3027.2 MB     1722
     articles:    68243     9722   3762.6 MB     2168
       search:     5798     1823    109.2 MB      668
          rss:    11366      562     88.6 MB      167
        other:     2086       52     37.0 MB     2645


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Top referers:
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375  http://feedly.com
306  http://www.netvibes.com
199  http://yro.slashdot.org
121  https://www.google.com
117  http://slashdot.org
90  http://m.slashdot.org
83  http://news.2bits.com
70  http://yro-beta.slashdot.org
62  http://beta.slashdot.org
62  http://inoreader.com
54  http://www.protopage.com
42  http://developers.slashdot.org
42  http://news.slashdot.org
39  http://jetsli.de
39  http://www.newsblur.com
38  http://science.slashdot.org
29  http://books.slashdot.org
29  http://www.google.com
28  http://books-beta.slashdot.org



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Error count by Page:
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SF.net group 4421:
	Bugs: 790 open; 4607 total
	Feature Requests: 160 open; 623 total
	Patches: 10 open; 112 total

Until the next time, this is NCommander, signing off ...

 
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