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Re: SoylentNews.org is live

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>> So it has all the same flaws that Slashdot had, and more, without the
>> interesting user base generating the comments that realistically, are
>> the only reason anybody even visits Slashdot any more.  I'm not trading
>> cyber-AIDS for cyber-cancer.
>
> Certainly it doesn't seem to spurring the same sort of interest as
> SoylentNews.org; there are barely any users and most of the comments
> seem to be just testing the comment system. Arguably this is because
> of how new the site is, but I have to wonder if that is all there is
> to it. It also sounds like Perens is doing all the work himself,
> unlike Soylent which attracted a herd of developers to its cause.
>
> And even as somebody who has been happy reading Usenet for 30 years, I
> have to say the site's design is a major turn-off; it's just too damn
> plain. I mean, I know all this started over how Dice was adding too
> much chrome and fluff, but there's a lower limit to that sort of stuff
> too.

I just signed up for Technocrat a few minutes ago.  Yes, single digit 
comments and all posts signed by Perens.  He's off to a tough start. 
But who knows how it will all wind up?

One issue is that Soylent had an almost-working codebase.  Contributors 
(not just developers but people anxious to have a place to call home) 
knew where they were going and mostly what it would look like when it 
come to be.  That's powerful stuff for an organization.

Perens on the other hand has a code base that's incomplete, and no one 
around but him who knows/understands what it will look like when it's 
done.  That makes it hard by definition for anyone, no matter how 
willing, to help.  And that makes it into a one man project.

Perens might have some good ideas of what his code will do.  But that's 
a huge difference from a group of committed individuals hustling to get 
a known quantity onto "the market" so to speak, and only minor fixes 
necessary to get the code running.

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SoylentNews.org is live wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 01:52 +0000
  Re: SoylentNews.org is live RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-17 09:22 +0000
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  Re: SoylentNews.org is live wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 16:45 +0000
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      Re: SoylentNews.org is live RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 16:00 +0000
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