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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: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday February 21 2014, @05:51AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:51AM (#4195) Journal
    The one thing I'd really like to see changed from the original Slashcode is removing the comment time limit from journals. I can understand that having all of the stories as potentially mutable can impose a lot of load on the db, but I quite often see a journal entry that's a few months (or more) old and it's quite frustrating not to be able to post in it. It's also a bit odd that moderation works as normal in journals - I had someone post a comment in my journal that someone else modded off-topic. I've no idea who would do that or why.
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    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 21 2014, @11:19AM

    by mcgrew (701) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:19AM (#4352) Homepage Journal

    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.

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