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Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later

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On 2014-02-23, wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And then there is Pipedot:
>> https://pipedot.org/
>>
>> open-source secure messaging systems: 0 comments
>> Next Falcon 9 Rocket to Attempt Water Landing: 5 comments
>> Toshiba Announces a 5TB Hard Drive: 20 comments
>> The Pipedot Week 1 status update scores best at 41 comments.
>> Several other stories have 5 comments, it seems to be the mode.
>>
>
> Visually, the design is quite appealing... still that old slashcode
> look-and-feel, but somehow cleaner-looking. The developer started from
> scratch with up-to-date technology and has been able to accomplish a
> lot very quickly. When I first looked at pipedot a week ago, it was
> mostly static... but it now has a functioning submission, reply, and
> threading system. All it really needs now is karma and moderation.
>
> If you haven't checked it out yet, you should... it looks promising.
> It will be interesting to see if a clean and modern codebase can
> propel it past SoylentNews.
>
> -- Now frequenting comp.misc daily in a prolonged fit of netstalgia.
>

I just checked it out, in amazement that in all the furor about FuckBeta
I hadn't heard about this one.  And I'm impressed!  Visually it's nicer
than Soylent, and the idea of a code rewrite that preserves slashcode
functionality but builds it on PHP and CSS is appealing.

I'm going to subscribe to it as well, to show some support and to see if
among all these sites we can be exposed to some interesting things.
Repeating a comment I saw there, Soylent has got the Slashcode up and
running; Pipedot has the articles but no comments or moderation, and
Technocrat has the comments/moderation but not much else.

All the comments exhorting a consolidation reminds me of the "why do we
need only one Linux distro?" conversations.  I'm glad for the diversity
- we all win.  

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Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-22 20:42 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 16:29 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 15:51 -0800
    Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 01:24 +0000
      Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 09:14 +0000
        PipeDot Captcha win RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 15:26 +0000
  Re: PipeDot Captcha win wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 10:30 +0000

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