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Re: Update on Soylent news

From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Update on Soylent news
Date 2014-03-02 19:59 +0000
Organization solani.org
Message-ID <lf02jn$io2$2@solani.org> (permalink)
References <leqra4$bls$1@solani.org> <20140302182807.723cf3e8.andy.k466@gmail.com>

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On 2014-03-02, Andy K. <andy.k466@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:24:36 +0000 (UTC)
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>
>> http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/27/2333227&mode=nocomment
>> 
>> Pretty neat stuff: 5M pageviews per month (Slashdot had 15M) after
>> only a month, and a healthy number of new editors, etc., and
>> frequently 50-60 comments per article.  I'm sure there are some who
>> will pooh-pooh it, but that's some pretty healthy participation
>> there, and I'm impressed.  The site's still a bit rough-looking, but
>> hell, that's easy to fix.
>> 
>> Congrats to all you soybeans.
>
> Yes, and I like the fact that they're already providing disk images
> with slashcode ready to go out of the box, so the entry barrier to
> getting mad from looking at the ancient Perl mess is lower than ever.
> :)
>

They certainly seem to have taken the ideas of transparency and
community to heart, which is good, considering some of the anxiety about
these things early in Soylent's life.

I took a quick look at pipedot.org and posted that one to m.n.i.d.
instead.  

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Update on Soylent news RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 20:24 +0000
  Re: Update on Soylent news "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 18:28 +0100
    Re: Update on Soylent news RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 19:59 +0000

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