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I can no longer sustain the level of activity needed to run SoylentNews, and so I have resigned as leader.
In the end, I was literally begging people to step back and let the site "just run" for a few days while I caught up... alas, to no effect. Issues must be resolved "right here and right now" continuously throughout my day with no end in sight.
NCommander has taken over as project lead - he has access to everything from the registrar down. I understand he has a different vision for the project, which will soon be revealed.
I'm sorry to leave like this, but there's really nothing for it. I'm going back to my AI studies, which happen at a more leisurely pace.
John Barrabas
(And yes, this was an amicable transfer of power. There's no hard feelings on my side.)
[Ed. Note: this is a word for word article based on Barrabas's journal entry.]
(Score: 2, Informative) by gottabeme on Thursday March 06 2014, @12:01PM
SN doesn't need more ideas. It needs time for people with the know-how to do their thing.
What do we need ideas for? We have Slashcode. We have stories. We have comments. We have a long list of minor improvements to make.
We certainly don't need a 5-level pyramid with 111,110 people submitting ideas. Good grief.
We don't need more ideas! What we need is for people to stop sending ideas and just shut up and use the site!
(Score: 1) by ancientt on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:47PM
Whether SN needs more ideas or not, it has them and along with demands from people who want to be listened to.
We do need ideas though, ideas about how to fix the issues that necessarily come with the level of use it is already seeing. Ideas about how to fix dependencies on Mod_Perl for example or how to modify the code to allow customized styles without breaking the existing preferences. Maybe they don't need them at this particular moment, and maybe some of them aren't best addressed by the developers doing the work right now, but that's kind of the point. There are ways to give people a way to contribute successfully to something they care about without getting in the way.
I certainly doubt that we need a 5 level pyramid, but using an exaggerated example sometimes makes it easy to see a benefit when the real numbers aren't handy.
Like it or not, this site wasn't created to serve an audience. It is all about interactive discussion and with the community that has formed around it comes the problem of giving that community the outlet for discussion they crave, even if it means doing something a little differently than traditional sites have done. After all, that's kind of the point.
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