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

[Clifton W. <cli...@gm...>]

The problem here is that we'd spend more time making Drupal into Slashcode
than making a better Slashcode.

- Cliff

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:28 PM, T. J. Brumfield <end...@gm...>wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Andrew Holden
>> cell/text: 610-212-3466
>>
>> --
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