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Welcome to the World of Tomorrow... Today!

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:06PM   
from the allow-me-to-introduce-myself dept.

Dopefish writes

Greetings Soylentils! And welcome to SoylentNews!

We are here to deliver the best community-sourced news, catered for all manner of nerd! Because this is a grassroots based platform, the content feeds are powered by readers like you. Our main objective is to highlight news stories on the web that are of importance to everyone, but especially nerds. In addition, SoylentNews will strive to go beyond simple news-aggregation, with some core principles:

• Providing a soapbox for experts to discuss their profession and solicit questions from a curious audience.
• Allowing the community to comment, without any mandatory registration.
• Staying mindful of the community's needs and wants while avoiding changes to satisfy an overarching corporate agenda.

We want to make this your source for news about technology, art, science and politics. We are the new kid on the block and are adapting quickly to satisfy our community's needs, as we look forward to exceeding your expectations and pushing boundaries like never before. Lastly, there will be no changes in format without a general consensus from the community. Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the ride!

~Dopefish

• First step First step (Score: 4, Insightful) by Pav on Monday February 17 2014, @01:45AM

  by Pav (114) on Monday February 17 2014, @01:45AM (#418)

  The first step was difficult, but no more than the hundreds to come. :-/ This is no "mission accomplished" even though it's awesome. This will require effort and dedication from everyone including the community for a good while yet, but even if this site achieves nothing more it's already shown that a portion of the Slashdot community can take back control of its own destiny if it really wants to.

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• Re:First step (Score: 1) by cybergimli on Monday February 17 2014, @08:55AM

  by cybergimli (436) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:55AM (#639)

  It's already a great start in record time (I suspect that the launch was to coincide with the end of the Slashcott). FYI, this site is already more functional than Slashdot, since I'm stuck with IE 8 at work, which has zero compatibility with Slashdot Beta.

  Keep up the good work.

  C.

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• Re:First step Re:First step (Score: 1) by mojo chan on Monday February 17 2014, @09:30AM

  by mojo chan (266) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:30AM (#666)

  Look at the average number of comments posted during the Slashdot boycott. I think a significant number of those people ended up here. We will see this week if Slashdot can recover.

  PS. Make it green, the red scheme is horrible.

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  const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)

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  • Re:First step Re:First step (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @09:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @09:36AM (#674)

    I'd say the number of page views is much more important metric than the number of comments. Unfortunately, can't see that one.

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    • Re:First step (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @09:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @09:38AM (#676)

      Fuck you slashcode. I am not this AC guy you insist is writing my posts.

      - cx -

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  • Re:First step Re:First step (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @11:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @11:23AM (#766)

    PS. Make it green, the red scheme is horrible.

    It would look too much like Slashdot if it was green. That would be lame. It's mostly just about getting used to the red theme anyway.

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    • Re:First step (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @10:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @10:58PM (#1321)

      Better yet, make it skinnable. No reason you can't look at a modern site in red, green, blue, or any random combination of those...

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• Re:First step (Score: 1) by saudadelinux on Monday February 17 2014, @11:42AM

  by saudadelinux (700) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:42AM (#784)

  God, it's fast! I forgot what that was like :)

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