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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: 2, Interesting) by Daniel Dvorkin on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:19PM

    by Daniel Dvorkin (1099) on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:19PM (#3948)

    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.

    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? ;)

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  • (Score: 1) by WildWombat on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:29PM

    by WildWombat (1428) on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:29PM (#3952)

    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

      by Daniel Dvorkin (1099) on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:13PM (#3988)

      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.

      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.

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      • (Score: 1) by evilviper on Friday February 21 2014, @05:32AM

        by evilviper (1760) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:32AM (#4184) Journal

        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.

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