I can no longer sustain the level of activity needed to run SoylentNews, and so I have resigned as leader.
In the end, I was literally begging people to step back and let the site "just run" for a few days while I caught up... alas, to no effect. Issues must be resolved "right here and right now" continuously throughout my day with no end in sight.
NCommander has taken over as project lead - he has access to everything from the registrar down. I understand he has a different vision for the project, which will soon be revealed.
I'm sorry to leave like this, but there's really nothing for it. I'm going back to my AI studies, which happen at a more leisurely pace.
John Barrabas
(And yes, this was an amicable transfer of power. There's no hard feelings on my side.)
[Ed. Note: this is a word for word article based on Barrabas's journal entry.]
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:00PM
My take [soylentnews.org] on the fragmentation claims is that we have to bear in mind the difference between this and the old site. Both have a main community of readers & commenters. The difference comes in the people who are giving up their time to take care of the running of the site.
On Slashdot there were just a handful of people (Taco, CowboyNeal, Timmy, Samzenpus, etc.) doing that job, and the main community had little visibility of what was going on between them. Private IRC? Maybe even telephone calls!
Here there are far more people involved behind the scenes. I like the fact that I could get involved if I had time. But I don't. It doesn't bother me that they organize themselves using phpBB forums, IRC, etc.. Because I know that the stories and the comments will always be here on the main site.
(And the You Tube thing was just a marketing/feedback exercise. I have no interest in it, but there's no reason it should detract from the stories and comments on the main site.)