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Update: The staff is in conversation with the buyer right now. More to follow, but at this point it looks to be a benevolent benefactor from the community. More to follow as we get it.
SoylentNews community:
As you know, there is not a lot of information available right now. Barrabas reports that he has sold the Soylentnews.org and associated domain names, and successfully transferred them, but neither the buyer's name nor the terms of that sale have been disclosed. As spokesperson for the staff of the site during this time, we would like everyone to know the following:
Our current backup plan is to revert to the li694-22.members.linode.com where the site is actually hosted. If we need to go there for any reason, we will try to notify the site in advance. If it has to go down or we are forced down, we'll be there. We will rebuild the database with some downtime and work from there.
We will send out a mass email to all users from the database informing them of this step should we need to do so.
We do not plan to implement this yet. We (the staff) did not advocate the buyout, but will try and work with the buyer if possible. We do not know the terms on which the domain name was sold.
We the staff will still operate the site, in its current condition on linode, until the community can vote on a new name. Depending on the buyer, we hope we can consider keeping the name the same as an option.
Until we know more information, we would like everyone to remain calm, collected, and civil, while we sort through these issues. Thank you
~mattie_p
(Score: 5, Funny) by FuckBeta on Monday March 10 2014, @04:34PM
Fuck Sale
On March 10, 2014, Soylent announced through a story that Barrabas has sold the Soylentnews.org and associated domain names.
Selling Soylent is a trend-following attempt to cash in on "news for nerds" sites, an approach that has led to less time for interesting technical discussion and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot values. Much worse than that, selling Soylent to an undisclosed buyer fundamentally breaks the trust of the community.
We should boycott soylentnews entirely during the week of Mar 10 to Mar 17 and tell the mystery buyer how we feel about the website sale.
We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is the sale until the buyer abandons the project.
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Sale
Commentors - only discuss Sale
http://dev.soylentnews.org/recent [dev.soylentnews.org] - Vote up the Fuck Sale stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
In the mean-time, Al Pacino summarizes what I personally want to say to the Seller [youtube.com].
Quit Slashdot...because Fuck Beta!
(Score: 2) by neagix on Monday March 10 2014, @04:53PM
I am with you bro'!
(Score: 1) by E_NOENT on Monday March 10 2014, @04:57PM
Nice piece of performance art here. Maybe I'm the only on who gets it...
Help! I'm trapped in a PDP 11/70!
(Score: 2) by everdred on Monday March 10 2014, @05:59PM
...because not a fuck is given?
We don't take no shit from a machine.
(Score: 4, Funny) by unitron on Monday March 10 2014, @08:14PM
Does this mean I have to coin "Soylentcott" as well?
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
(Score: 1) by isaac on Tuesday March 11 2014, @04:10AM
Soycott, obviously.
(Score: 1) by MrNemesis on Tuesday March 11 2014, @06:59AM
Are we going to start a cryptocurrency as well? If there's one thing SN doesn't have that its predecessor did, it's endless articles about emerging cryptocurrencies! :)
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Tuesday March 11 2014, @10:23AM
(Score: 1) by Soruk on Tuesday March 11 2014, @01:33PM
Soybeans, anyone?