I am happy to announce we have reached our funding goal of $4500 for the first half of this year! From the bottom of our hearts, a big thank you to everyone for all your support. There were a few who chose to pay a lot more than we ever suspected, they know who they are, and I would literally like to buy them a beer.
Continuing with the good news, our goal for July-December is less than half of our first-half goal, and we are a month ahead of schedule — details to follow on that. Though we won't all be dining on champagne and caviar, we are hopeful we will be able to continue paying the bills for the foreseeable future. For now, I just want to say that you are all one awesome community and that you continue to surprise and inspire us; we'll keep doing what we can to make this place the best it can be.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by black6host on Monday June 01 2015, @12:59PM
Thank you for all *your* hard work and thank you for the "thank you". One question though, if not all of you are going to be drinking champagne and eating caviar, who will? :)
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Monday June 01 2015, @01:20PM
if not all of you are going to be drinking champagne and eating caviar, who will?
I dunno, maybe you fine folks?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @01:28PM
It's certainly cause for celebration but I'll have to pass as my beer budget doesn't allow such things :)
(Score: 1) by arulatas on Monday June 01 2015, @04:36PM
Simple solution brew your own.
----- 10 turns around
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday June 01 2015, @06:51PM
Not cheaper as compared to canned yellow beer.
I used to brew -- I started in 1986 around the time when Vermont changed the drinking age from 18 to 21 because I missed the grandfather clause by two months. Over years of homebrewing, I turned into a real beer snob until the late 90s when I lived in a desert environment for two years. A chewy porter just doesn't go down all that well when it is 100 degrees, but an ice cold canned yellow beer -- that's awesome in that sort of heat. Happily, I escaped the desert, but (maybe sadly) not my taste for yellow beer in cans. I really like Hamms.
Oh -- and thanks for the site. It's my main destination.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday June 01 2015, @02:53PM
Yeah, a verbal thanks from me as well. I put my budget allocated towards supporting websites elsewhere this year(sorry), but thanks for the effort you put into the site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @01:01PM
I don't see the Soylent graphic at the top left corner of page. I'm viewing with FF 24 with JS disabled.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Monday June 01 2015, @01:21PM
We just went through a major upgrade [soylentnews.org]. Things should be returning to normal over the next 24-48 hours or so.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @01:29PM
And hence the bug report in the hope that it may help expedite smoothing things up. Kudos on the cool job you lot are doing.
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Monday June 01 2015, @02:02PM
Should be fixed now. css files did not get updated properly.
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @02:29PM
I for one now see it again! \o/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @03:36PM
I, for one, don't! /°\ I guess it is a cache not updated yet somewhere...
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday June 01 2015, @02:06PM
> I don't see the Soylent graphic at the top left corner of page.
Glaaah Soylent ruined FOREVER!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @04:45PM
Yeah let's all GTFO and set up an altsoylentnews.org
(Score: 2, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Monday June 01 2015, @01:26PM
I might be one of the whiney-complainey commentors, but I only complain because i care. :)
I want to take this moment to say thanks to the team on making Soylent a success.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 5, Interesting) by TK on Monday June 01 2015, @01:32PM
I only relented and donated this past Friday because I saw how close we were to the goal.
I wonder if I'm the only one, and if not, if that's an exploitable phenomenon.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 5, Funny) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @03:21PM
Donation meters that are stuck at 99%? sounds like an awesome idea!
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Monday June 01 2015, @04:40PM
Let me guess:
Did you and 'TK' code the infamous(stuck on either 1 second left, or 99% complete 'forever') 'Windows [lack of]Progress Bar'?
*starts heating the tar and looking for something fowl to pluck* ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @06:38PM
We had a hire another guy just to keep closing all the bug reports. Working as intended!
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 01 2015, @08:40PM
Actually, I thought the donation meter was suck for months.
I first started to wonder if that was the case months ago after I bought my third donation and never saw the meter budge. It appears not to be real time.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @10:29PM
I noticed the same, it appears to be a manual thing
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by juggs on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:04AM
It is indeed a manual thing.
mrcoolbp handles the money side of things, so it is down to his availability to check the PayPal and BitPay payments then update the meter on the site. We could look to automate it, but I don't think it would be a high priority.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:57AM
Aye, I have to update it manually. I try to check it every day or so, but am not always able. Kind of a double-edged sword too as I like moving the meter when a sub rolls in, but if I wait for another tomorrow that's less transactions for me to input! : )
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @08:00PM
on achieving your funding! And Thank You to everyone who donated.
And thank you for your thought-provoking:
There were a few who chose to pay a lot more than we ever suspected, they know who they are, and I would literally like to buy them a beer.
I was immediately reminded of the one penny donation, and had to go hunting to find out where it was from. Turns out it was from the book of Mark (in the bible) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A41-44/ [biblegateway.com].
Now, I know nothing about pretty much all the donors, and have no wish to diminish the value of their donations, so I'm curious as to why you would like to buy a beer for one particular group. Possibly it's an offer of charity, because you think they are least likely to be able to afford a beer, or maybe they're the group most likely to appreciate one?
And I've gone and presumed that 'would like to buy a beer' and "would literally like to buy them a beer" both involve the purchase of beer. But I get the feeling they aren't quite the same thing (literally speaking). It's as if one of them has, say, included a gratis application of DRM to any hiccup sufferers (pretend or otherwise).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2299306/ [nih.gov] (needs javascript for nih.gov and pubmed.gov), or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Fesmire/ [wikipedia.org] has a hint in the Awards section.
(Score: 3, Funny) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:02AM
Part of "buy a beer" is sitting down and having a chat with that person (for me anyway), something I would "literally" do if anyone is in New England.I think that's what I meant. It's been a very long weekend so I probably could have been more eloquent, but I could just blame the editors for not making the 'story' perfect...
*mrcoolbp ducks
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(Score: 2) by gidds on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:34PM
What worries me isn't so much the applicability of the word, as its placement.
"I would like to literally buy you all a beer" would have been very clear, and I think that's what was intended. But "...would literally like to buy..." suggests that the buying might still be figurative, but the liking is the important thing!
(...Sorry, I'm a pedant. I can't help it. :)
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(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Wednesday June 03 2015, @03:01AM
It's been a very long weekend so I probably could have been more eloquent
Meh.
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(Score: 1) by cngn on Monday June 01 2015, @10:58PM
Keep up the good work guys, ever so often this site has stumbled, but it's picked itself up and carried on....
I'll buy myself a beer tonight, it's way to early to be drinking where I am at 08:57 in the morning..
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @03:02AM
Works for me.
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