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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: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday December 07 2022, @04:42AM (1 child)

    by RS3 (6367) on Wednesday December 07 2022, @04:42AM (#1281490)

    Thank you, I don't remember ever hearing of "Greasemonkey". I'll have to look into it.

    You've stumped me on the hosts file. My understanding is it's the first stop in DNS- any server name is mapped to an IP address. That will fail when a webserver serves many hostnames under one IP address. IE, the webserver software looks at the packets, sees which of the potentially many websites are being requested, maps the correct html (and php and whatever else) files, and sends them to the requesting client.

    I hope that made sense, and of course, if not, I'll try to 'splain better. :)

    I tried it, and I still get www.reddit.com, even when directed at the old.reddit.com server's IP address. Again, server software sees www.reddit.com inside the packets and well, so it goes.

    Another factor: large sites like reddit have load balancers at the front end. So your request packets go into a sort of distributor machine that sends your packets to one of many actual (virtual is okay) web servers. So, even if old.reddit.com is one physical machine, you probably can't get to it directly.

    You'd need a browser plugin that would change the outgoing packets. That may be possible, and maybe with Greasemonkey or some other existing plugin / extension. Problem for me is I'm using "Old Opera" and there were very few plugins made for it. I'll have to do some research...

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday December 07 2022, @06:12AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday December 07 2022, @06:12AM (#1281492) Homepage

    Reasonable explainin', thanks :)

    search terms:

    use greasemonkey to rewrite url

    and a bunch of StackOverflow discussions come up.

    And I'm getting blocked popups every time I come back to this page. Somethin' wrong here... also as someone else complained, my mod points did not reset tonight (should have happened about 8pm).

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