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Today we stand proud, fellow Soylentils. Two stories have been received to explain why:
Slashdot.org switches accounts to Classic-like interface
It now appears that Slashdot has now completely changed its interface to the new "beta" interface - which looks almost the same as the "old" interface. Users can no longer view the non-beta classic site, which is being reported by users all around the site.
The only official news on the matter is in the form of a journal entry.
Does this mean it's time to go after our original mission and let them know we're here?
"Beta" Delenda est!
Remember Slashdot? Remember Beta? This blog post might be tagged "sudden outbreak of common sense," if it wasn't well over a year too late:
...effective today, we've jettisoned the Slashdot Beta platform out the side portal. [...] After heavily experimenting on the Beta platform and splitting traffic between Classic and Beta, we've made some decisions about which platform changes ultimately make sense: starting today, we're unifying users back on our Classic platform.
A raft of minor changes came along with this announcement. Still no comment, though, on whether those users are a "community" or an "audience."
And frankly, that's why soylentnews is better.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday February 27 2015, @02:22PM
Any other ideas how to pay the bills [soylentnews.org]? Its quite nice to have some contempt for money, but it only works as long as you have enough money...
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Friday February 27 2015, @03:48PM
Perhaps this is beyond your scope. Ultimately, lessen funding problems by improving public services and patronage. Crowdsourcing is a very good start, but it is only a start. The Net Neutrality victory helps, but that too is just one tiny step out of thousands. We need a lot of other services.
1) The public should handle DNS, and provide limited amounts to everyone for free. An analogy is the postal system. Every residence and place of business has a postal address. The occupants do not have to pay any private company to name new streets or number the buildings or suites. Anyone who wants something more or different can pay for a P. O. Box. So why can't we have the same in DNS? A top level domain, maybe called "who". Then each person would have something like 0001.john.smith.who. For business, there is of course .com. This would even include the homeless, who are currently denied the basic dignity of a postal address under our current system. Being asked to pay to "maintain" a domain name is like being asked to pay to keep a street address. How'd that help the bottom line, if you didn't have to pay the likes of GoDaddy, Verisign, and ICANN for their "services"?
2) We need automated digital public notaries. This isn't about copyrights and patents, which I think should be abolished. This one is about plagiarism. I think the first step towards preventing disputes about authorship is to set up a decent digital public notary. Most importantly, the service must be free. Anyone can timestamp any document they want by hashing it and getting the digest notarized. How'd it be if a news forum had an option to use this service?
3) More! More crowdfunding options. Don't want Kickstarter to gain a monopoly in this.
I certainly hope you guys are saving every comment ever made. May be of considerable historic interest in the future. May have more immediate practical applications too.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 27 2015, @04:36PM
Recruit Cowboy Dick to take care of the money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxpoUeSeZ8 [youtube.com]