[Slashcode-development] slashdot post relevant to bender 'feature chat'

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regarding the recent thread on the slashcode poll about feature requests and
so on, i talked about 'persistent articles' or those meant to never 'die'
and thus would always be around for converstation. the example i gave was
'HTML help' on a webmaster's resource site. krow has also obviously been
thinking about it as well. i saw this post on slashdot regarding the bender
beta...

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/01/16/1854229&cid=7

"If slashcode is free and Free why do other message boards keep selling?
What is it that slashdot doesn't have that keeps cruddy software (ahem) like
the Ultimate BBS profitable?"

then the relevant reply to it...

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/01/16/1854229&cid=41

"it's a news engine, not a message board. It just happens to have a message
board attached to each news story"

so atleast other people notice this as well. in my opinion it's the only
thing holding slash back from making all of those other toy-ish solutions
obsolete. i think slash would really pick up a lot of additional userbase
with some robust support for message board type functionality.


congrats on the beta btw. :)