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: 4, Insightful) by mcgrew on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:25PM
That's what journals are for. I see you've never read mine, I just posted one Tuesday, you might be amused by it.
There weren't a lot of journalers at slashdot. The diaries are what attracted me to K5 back in the day before it started sucking, and went back to slashdot when I discovered they had journals. But whatever you want to discuss, put it in your journal. Sometimes folks click on your "journals" link. But you can discuss anything you want.
My book started as a slashdot comment someone posted [slashdot.org] in a front page story, I hastily penned a journal [slashdot.org] and linked it as a response. More time travel stories followed.
Use your journal! It's listed on the sidebar. You'd be surprised who's reading.
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]
(Score: 1) by pixeldyne on Friday February 21 2014, @05:26AM
Damn you! I went to see what your book was about and before I knew it I'm on chapter 7 and feel the urge to finish it tonight (otherwise I wont sleep). I've had plans for tonight...
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 21 2014, @11:39AM
Wow, thanks. Glad you're enjoying it. Slow down, though -- I just posted chapter 32 this morning (see my journal, it's a Soylent exclusive until tomorrow), 33 won't be posted until Tuesday (everyone else gets it Wednesday) and the last four chapters next Saturday. From the timestamp of your comment I'm guessing you're in Australia or New Zealand?
I got a similar comment from someone at slashdot I emailed an abridged version of The Paxil Diaries to. He'd planned on reading a chapter a night and before he realized how late it had gotten he'd finished it. That one will be in print shortly.
I wish someone would tell me how much I suck, I'm getting a swelled head.
Please tell everyone about it, and thanks again for reading!
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday February 21 2014, @05:51AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 21 2014, @11:19AM
Amen to that! Also, the time limit when responding to people responding to you from "messages". However, I think they have a little more work before they can start implimenting that; there are a couple of bad bugs I've run across.
One is journals. When I click it, it tells me I have no friends, even though I friended two people the day before yesterday. This despite the fact that when I click "friends" they both show up.
There's a sidebar listing "amigos". Uh, what is that link? I click it and it says I have no friends. Huh?
They need to change one of the "journals" links in the sidebar, too. Last night I ran across a page that lists all users with journals, but now I can't find it. It should be in the sidebar, user journals shouldn't be hidden! Perhaps a link "new journals" listing journals posted in the last 49 hours.
Also, unicode... but I'm sure that's going to be a big job and I'm not holding my breath.
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]