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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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For Main Page
Pages IPs Bandwidth Users
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articles: 68243 9722 3762.6 MB 2168
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rss: 11366 562 88.6 MB 167
other: 2086 52 37.0 MB 2645
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960 14/02/16/1331209 NCommander Massive Site Progress - Status
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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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Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out
of the way.
(Score: 2, Informative) by tempest on Monday February 24 2014, @03:11PM
Since I can't seem to find a way to post at the top level, I guess I'll drop this here. Can we keep politics off this site? I know everyone just loves arguing in the usual political circle jerk that solves nothing, but I feel that's one of the big things that turned me off Slashdot. There are plenty of other sites for that crap.
(Score: 1) by Landon on Monday February 24 2014, @03:22PM
It's the "Reply" button next to the comment filter (unfortunately, it was like this in old Slashdot too, ugh)
(Score: 1) by tempest on Monday February 24 2014, @03:31PM
Ha, feel kinda dumb now. I swear I recall there being a text box underneath the article.
(Score: 2, Funny) by sglane on Monday February 24 2014, @07:20PM
You must be new here.