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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

• Great work! (Score: 1) by eravnrekaree on Monday February 17 2014, @10:09AM

  by eravnrekaree (555) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:09AM (#701)

  Great work on the site. It looks wonderful.

  An idea: I think Soylent should bring back the Original slashdot article icons, such as the Bill Gates Borg and the Broken Window and so on, rather than the clipart versions that Slashdot uses.

  I hope, and I suggest that it be made the sites mission statement, to remain true and adhere to Slashdot's classic format. As I have said previously, if it ain't broke don't fix it. The traditional slashcode format is perfect. They were talking about trying to add functionality back into the beta at Slashdot, but if they add back the functionality of classic slashdot to the point where its a good site again, basically end up with what they start with, classic slashdot, so why even mess with in the first place? Change for the sake of change has killed slashdot, messing with something that had absolutely nothing wrong with it and was working well.

  I suggest Lets keep this the classic slashcode format.