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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."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by WildWombat on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:22PM
Thats right. I just coined Soylers. As in 'how are my fellow Soylers doing today?'
Now back on topic. With regards to story selection I don't think that we need to be a clone of the other site but that formula did seem to work for a long time. I think fewer political/pop news stories and more on open source projects and space and science would be a better blend. On the other hand I don't want no general news stories. The Ukranian uprising story for instance is interesting and worth discussing here, I think. (Although linking to an AMA instead of some broader coverage was a bit questionable.) I just don't want that type of thing to be the focus.
Also, when replying to the main topic could we please make it so that the comment area is shown below the topic so I don't have to open a new tab to see what I'm replying to?
And another aside, I'm amazed at how much more I like this old old look and feel compared to the D2 one. Although, if you've looked at the pipedot.org site I think they nailed the look and feel even better. I get the impression though that they're not going to continue. The code though is probably at least worth taking a look at.
Cheers,
-WW
(Score: 1) by dyingtolive on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:15PM
I don't like it. Sounds too much like "soilers"..
(Score: 1) by wjwlsn on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:56PM
I think that was the intent.
I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.
(Score: 1) by bacon on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:33PM
So good, I just soyled my pants...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Daniel Dvorkin on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:19PM
Yeah, Pipedot's absolutely gorgeous. If nothing else comes out of it, I'm hoping "Pipecode" becomes available for setting up discussion sites. And I'd like to see both that site and this one continue: Soylent as Linux, Pipedot as BSD? ;)
Pipedot [pipedot.org]:Soylent [dev.soylentnews.org]::BSD:Linux
(Score: 1) by WildWombat on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:29PM
I don't know, I don't think that there will be enough uses for both of them to reach critical mass. Could be wrong on that though. I was just really impressed with how pipedot managed to be so information dense and so clean looking at the same time. I've usually thought that those two were mutually exclusive. They did a bang up job.
Cheers,
-WW
(Score: 1) by Daniel Dvorkin on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:13PM
I remember another site that used to do that once ... another URL that started with 's' ... I think the name was some kind of Unix pun or something ... hmmm, can't exactly recall at the moment.
Pipedot [pipedot.org]:Soylent [dev.soylentnews.org]::BSD:Linux
(Score: 1) by evilviper on Friday February 21 2014, @05:32AM
Slashdot isn't a Unix pun at all. It's a URL gag... Imagine tech support telling a beginner to go that that site:
"Now type in: h-t-t-p colon slash slash slash dot dot o-r-g"
Pipe dot isn't nearly as interesting. I don't mind getting my daily dose of soiled news, though.
Do YOU see ALL home-page stories?
dev.soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=1
github.com/SoylentNews/slashcode/issues/78