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A Resignation

posted by mattie_p on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-kim-jung-un dept.

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.]

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:15PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:15PM (#12175) Journal

    Does not work with Cyrillic alphabet, unfortunately. The whole comment body disappears.

    БДЖ

    Seems to work quite fine with numeric entities (БДЖ)

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Friday March 07 2014, @09:51AM

    by tftp (806) on Friday March 07 2014, @09:51AM (#12578) Homepage

    OK, thank you for the help - I figured out what the bug is. Perhaps someone should look into this, but please don't try too hard :-) Sleeping once every few days is recommended :-)

    How to recreate the bug

    Enter the following comment:
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "БДЖ"
    It will not render in preview. Nothing will be seen at all - blank comment.

    Enter the following comment:
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX "БДЖ"
    It will render correctly in preview.

    Note that if you use digits instead of 'x', they do not count.

    Without examining the code, it looks like there is some function that counts the characters in the comment, and it counts them incorrectly. It is wrong to not display the text in preview, even if that text (for some reason) is considered to be too short to post.