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Updates on Soylent, Pipedot

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Lots of interesting things going on "upstairs."

Soylent [1] has just put in place a mechanism where you can become
 a member for $20/year.  The money supports the site and you get a
 star next to your name.  I gave them my $20 because 'Fuck you,
 Dice,' that's why.  Unfortunately the money doesn't go to editors
 (it never does) so it will have no impact on the story choices or
 editing, but it will hopefully give them server space and
 bandwidth and room to move.

Pipedot [2] tried an experiment in which a script siphons articles
 and comments from Soylent.  N1Commander had offered Pipedot a
 feed.  But the negative impact outweighed the benefits and it was
 shut off.  Many Soylentils were upset about the "willfull
 plagiarism/copyright violation" and the Pipeheads felt the site
 drowned in Soylent blather.  So experiment is over, and there's a
 healthy debate going on about the future of Pipedot.  Given the
 fact the code is progressing and changing so rapidly, this
 feedback will probably impact the interface in meaningful ways. 
 The interesting thing about the experiment is Bryan (the guy
 behind pipecode)'s vision for pipecode, which involves some sort
 of federated sharing of articles in a way that sounds inspired by
 Usenet.

I'm on a tablet, so can't provide better links than the front
 page.  Worth reading though.

[1] http://soylentnews.org
[2] http://pipedot.org

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Updates on Soylent, Pipedot RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-28 21:11 +0000

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