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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by kebes on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:47PM

    by kebes (1505) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:47PM (#3751)
    As others have pointed out [dev.soylentnews.org], having discussion zones outside of the Soylent News front-page posts might actually draw attention away from the main articles. Because SN is young at present, we don't realistically have a community big enough to sustain too many concurrent discussion venues. So, my personal opinion would be to put as much emphasis on making the main discussion features more robust (e.g. being able to load a parent or child comment inline, rather than refreshing the whole page), and have other discussion venues (IRC, forums, even journals) only be seriously developed later on.