Re: [Slashcode-general] I volunteer to help resuscitate Slashcode

[T. J. B. <end...@gm...>]

There are some Drupal modules that were started to add Slashcode style
features, such as Slashcode moderation.

http://drupal.org/project/slashcomments

In a perfect world, I think Slashcode might be better off recreated in
Drupal 7.

There are far more extensions/modules for it. It is mature, stable, tested
and well used. It would be easier to get support for. I would seriously kill
for a slick, Drupal 7 powered Slashcode of the future.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, A H <hol...@gm...> wrote:

> And can Wordpress do moderation points like Slash?
>
> The moderation system was what attracted me to Slash but I had to give
> up on it - too many undocumented "features".
>
> I think it's still a relevant format and I would love to see it
> flourish. My contribution would need to be in documentation because I
> am not a programmer.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Eric Dannewitz <eri...@ja...>
> wrote:
> > I'd ditch slash for wordpress. I did and have never regretted it
> >
> > Sent from my iSomething
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2011, at 4:23 PM, George Taft <geo...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >> An Open Letter to the Developers of Slashdot, and What's Left of the
> >> Slashcode Community --
> >>
> >> I'm an avid reader of Slashdot. I don't comment much, but I've always
> >> been impressed by Slashdot's moderation system. It manages what should
> >> be an unmanageable task: ensuring a civil discussion among thousands
> >> and thousands of users.
> >>
> >> I've come into a situation where I now need a system much like
> >> Slashdot's: an extensible and scalable readership-moderated online
> >> discussion forum. Lo and behold, Slashdot make Slash open source years
> >> ago. They even got an O'Reilly book.
> >>
> >> But Slashcode was never the priority of the coders. The last official
> >> release is, what, nine years old? There's been much more modern code
> >> released, but even that's a couple of years old. What little traces I
> >> can find of other sites using Slash involve those sites migrating to
> >> something else. This message is evidently the first post on
> >> slashcode-general in almost a year. The coders have written that
> >> management of the open-source branch of the codebase is still not
> >> their priority. And so the userbase has almost disappeared, like so
> >> many Mac clones.
> >>
> >> Over the past three months, I've tried to install Slash myself, and I
> >> run into the sorts of problems that are documented elsewhere. I relied
> >> on the woefully out-of-date alternate install document at
> >> misterorange.com. And I still don't know: am I using the right
> >> distro...is there a best distro? Is this version of Perl too new? This
> >> version of MySQL or Apache? Why is this thing not working...and why is
> >> it so hard to make work? The friend who's been helping me through this
> >> process has constantly grumbled about the suite's age, its reliance on
> >> aged platforms, and wouldn't I like to try something more modern?
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, no one can name me a CMS that does as good or better a
> >> job of moderation. (I desperately wish someone could, because I'd be
> >> pleased to go use that.) The coders have given their reasoning for why
> >> they still use Perl and Apache 1.3: because they still work. Slashdot
> >> is living proof that Slashcode works. I buy their logic.
> >>
> >> I believe so strongly in its value as a discussion-moderating tool
> >> that I'm pledging to volunteer time to revive the Slashcode project.
> >> I'm asking for help from whoever will give it.
> >>
> >> I'm at best a feral coder. (I found a bug in installing 2.52 the other
> >> night, a typo that screws up the install at the creation of the
> >> "Preview" table. I was able to fix it and get the whole install done,
> >> but it took forever and it only half-works.) But I know what good user
> >> interface design looks like, and I'm an excellent writer and
> >> documenter. I'd like at least to help make the installation more
> >> user-friendly.
> >>
> >> Perhaps it's naive of me to think that this email will make something
> >> happen. But if you have even a smidgen of interest in making Slash
> >> accessible to a slightly more general audience, please, please post
> >> here. Let's begin this project anew.
> >>
> >> == George
> >>
> >>
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> > The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources
> > and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical
> server's
> > connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these
> > rules translate into the virtual world?
> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb
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>
>
> --
>
> -Andrew Holden
> cell/text: 610-212-3466
>
>
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> The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources
> and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's
> connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these
> rules translate into the virtual world?
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb
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