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posted by NCommander on Monday December 05 2022, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
Hey folks,

Well, it's been a bit of time since the last time I posted, and well, I had to think a fair bit on the comments I received. It's become very clear that while I'm still willing to at least help in technical matters, the effort to reforge SN is much higher than I expected. In addition, given the, shall we say, lukewarm response I got to my posts and journal entries, well, I'm clearly not the right person for the job.

I think at this point, it's time to figure out who is going to lead SN going forward. After my de facto stepping down in 2020, the site has, for want of a better word, been a bit listless. At the moment, no one on staff really has the cycles to take that position on. A few people have expressed interest in the position, and I've talked with Matt, who is co-owner of the site about this. By and large, whoever fills the seat will have to figure out what, if anything, needs to change in regards to moderation policy, content, and more.

If you're interested in potentially fulfilling the role, drop me an email at michael -at- casadevall.pro, with the subject of "SN Project Leader", and include the following:

  • Who you are
  • What you want to do with the site
  • How you intend to do it
  • Why do you want to get involved

I'll leave this call for candidates open until December 14th, at which point Matt and I will go through, and figure out our short list, I'll talk to editors, and solicit more comments from the community. I'm hoping to announce a successor in early January, and formalize the transition sometime in February, which will be the site's 9th anniversary.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2022, @05:48PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 05 2022, @05:48PM (#1281294)

    > ... old.reddit.com

    I'll have to look there, don't recall ever using old Reddit. Thanks for followup comments to my Reddit rant.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 05 2022, @06:59PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday December 05 2022, @06:59PM (#1281299)

    Just to reiterate, have a look here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SoylentNews/ [reddit.com]

    That's a screen grab of the SN site logo and a copy-paste of about 8 lines of CSS to color the top banner accordingly - then a copy-paste of one of today's stories, comments would be in the comments...

    I don't dislike the SN 5 point moderation system, but I don't think it's the be-all end-all solution to easy browsing in the comments.

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday December 06 2022, @06:44PM (2 children)

      by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday December 06 2022, @06:44PM (#1281415) Homepage

      [plaintively] Is there a way to turn it dark??

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 06 2022, @08:21PM (1 child)

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday December 06 2022, @08:21PM (#1281430)

        There's a thing called Reddit Enhancement Suite, and it has a night mode that I used to use all the time.

        Then I decided to review my browser plugins and remove all non-essentials, which included RES - I sort of miss night mode sometimes, but not enough to restore RES - yet.

        The subreddit can have a custom (CSS) stylesheet, which most do, I would think with enough tweaking in there you could get whatever theme you want, but it would be a question for the /r/css community whether or not you could easily let your users cookie themselves to their preferred style sheet look and feel: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003000471-Edit-Stylesheet [reddithelp.com]

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        • (Score: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Tuesday December 06 2022, @10:28PM

          by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday December 06 2022, @10:28PM (#1281451) Homepage

          I was surprised to see there's no default dark mode, since it's been on the main site for a while. Ah, well, I'll just disable color in the browser, and turn it a nice restful grey. :)

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