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martyb [soylentnews.org] writes:

I am inviting the editorial team to take a much-deserved break on Monday and am encouraging the editorial staff to maintain "weekend story spacing"[*] on Monday. This is a long holiday weekend in the United States in celebration of Columbus Day. As a result, sites tend to post fewer stories. And, of the stories that are posted, a larger fraction are "filler" stories or fluff pieces, if you will. This, in turn, makes it harder for the editorial staff to find stories of interest to post to SoylentNews. Separately, one of our editors is still on leave and the remaining staff has been stretched thin with his absence. Further, several of the editorial staff are facing real-life challenges that conspire to reduce the amount of time and energy that can be given to posting stories on SoylentNews. Do recall that all staff here are volunteers and what you see here is freely given of their own spare time.

We generally try to post 14-15 stories per day on weekdays, and about 10 stories per day on weekends.

Also, a reminder that Linode has informed us of some server maintenance they will need to perform. Except for a short while on IRC (Internet Relay Chat), any downtime should not be visible to the community. Linode reserves up to a two-hour window for their maintenance, but past experience has show that most prior maintenance is completed in less than 30 minutes and often as little as 10-15 minutes. See our earlier story Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing [soylentnews.org] for details. The first of our servers to be affected is sodium whose maintenance window starts: 2019-10-18 05:00 AM.

We will keep you informed as things progress.

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