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Backup Plan During Transition

posted by mattie_p on Monday March 10 2014, @07:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the always-backup-your-website dept.

Update: The staff is in conversation with the buyer right now. More to follow, but at this point it looks to be a benevolent benefactor from the community. More to follow as we get it.

SoylentNews community:

As you know, there is not a lot of information available right now. Barrabas reports that he has sold the Soylentnews.org and associated domain names, and successfully transferred them, but neither the buyer's name nor the terms of that sale have been disclosed. As spokesperson for the staff of the site during this time, we would like everyone to know the following:

Our current backup plan is to revert to the li694-22.members.linode.com where the site is actually hosted. If we need to go there for any reason, we will try to notify the site in advance. If it has to go down or we are forced down, we'll be there. We will rebuild the database with some downtime and work from there.

We will send out a mass email to all users from the database informing them of this step should we need to do so.

We do not plan to implement this yet. We (the staff) did not advocate the buyout, but will try and work with the buyer if possible. We do not know the terms on which the domain name was sold.

We the staff will still operate the site, in its current condition on linode, until the community can vote on a new name. Depending on the buyer, we hope we can consider keeping the name the same as an option.

Until we know more information, we would like everyone to remain calm, collected, and civil, while we sort through these issues. Thank you

~mattie_p

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @11:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @11:05PM (#14347)

    I really hope they remove the posts about this conflict once it's all over, because in retrospect it will just look petty, unprofessional and generally ridiculous, although I must say I've appreciated the openness while it was going on.

    I hope it stays. people are not pretty, plastic, idealised versions of people. this site should reflect everything back at us; warts and all.

    if we remove the rough edges, we should also be willing to remove the reason why the site was formed in the first place, and anything negative said about dice and slashdot.

    however, without knowing our history we will likely repeat it. what happened may be distasteful, but this is who we are.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Reziac on Tuesday March 11 2014, @02:24AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday March 11 2014, @02:24AM (#14432) Homepage
    An AC says,

    I hope it stays. people are not pretty, plastic, idealised versions of people. this site should reflect everything back at us; warts and all. if we remove the rough edges, we should also be willing to remove the reason why the site was formed in the first place, and anything negative said about dice and slashdot. however, without knowing our history we will likely repeat it. what happened may be distasteful, but this is who we are.

    I agree with the wise AC. Removing posts surrounding an internal conflict would tell us that the management is willing to censor... today this, tomorrow who knows what? And that's contrary to the spirit of the community.

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    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.