prospectacle writes:
"An important choice remains for this site. What kind of organisation will we be, practically, legally and financially?
A for-profit, shareholder corporation seems out of the question, by general consensus (correct me if I'm wrong), but other questions remain. The basic choice is this:
Will we be like a charity, a co-op, or a recreational club?
This is a gross simplification, but gives some idea of the options involved. Feel free to offer alternatives. So what should we be, what is our purpose, really? And what kind of a structure is required to make sure we serve that purpose, and that money doesn't end up in the wrong pockets?
Bonus question: which jurisdiction should we set ourselves up in to fulfil our mission most effectively?"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by mrcoolbp on Wednesday March 12 2014, @10:31AM
The forums have fallen into near-complete disuse, due to the plethora of other communications systems available. The plan is to nuke the forums from orbit (as soon as relevant info is migrated to the wiki).
As to your request not to have these updates on the main site, I think it is valid. The commenting system here is very useful to get an idea of what the community thinks. My vision would be to have a separate "topic" for these discussions so they could be filtered out. Currently that would require some dev work so it's on our list.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by weeds on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:03AM
Well, OK... But, you are adding to the dev list when you have a solution already in hand. The forum is ideal for this and as I have mentioned elsewhere can be a chat center too.
As a development manager, I almost always put new features and bug fixes before reworking old code. I pretty much never build what I can get for free.
Get the strategic plan going! [dev.soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Wednesday March 12 2014, @12:27PM
I would disagree with this.
If you move these discussions away from the home page, you end up discussing it with only the people who remember where it's moved to. Even if you put a permanent link to it -- people aren't expecting a link to ongoing discussion anywhere except the stories and polls.
So make it at most one story a day. That makes you pick the topic carefully.
And give it a meta tag and icon so people can avoid it if they want to.
(Score: 1) by sbgen on Wednesday March 12 2014, @03:25PM
I second this. If I cant see it on the front page I am not going to actively seek. At the very least provide journal entry for such news at the top where I can see it.
Cheers
Warning: Not a computer expert, but got to use it. Yes, my kind does exist.
(Score: 1) by SlackStone on Wednesday March 12 2014, @04:24PM
I like seeing this unfold on the main page. The whole 'beta' thing has been very entertaining and enlightening to watch, kind of like SCO back in the day. I'm very interested in the evolution process of SN.
Not that it matters, but the new stories have just been so-so at matching my interests, I'd like to see more tin-foil hat stories that generate fun discussions. Most of the other news here is a bit dry for my taste, but still damn good compared to the rest of the WWW.
And as for the IRC poll, SoylentNews has done a great job of reminding me how much fun IRC can be. As for FreeNode, isn't it primarily for Open Source projects? SN hasn't released back any code updates, so it doesn't seem like the right place for SN folks.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:49PM
The plan is to have all the code open-source. It's all on github:
https://github.com/SoylentNews/slashcode [github.com]
There haven't been many updates recently due to the NCommander being overseas, but there is a lot in the que as I understand. Excuse my ignorance if this is not what you mean, I'm really not a dev.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 1) by BradTheGeek on Thursday March 13 2014, @07:06AM
This +1