Slash (software)

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Slash (Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is a content management system, originally[ when? ] created for Slashdot, one of the oldest[ when? ] collaborative sites on the Internet. Slash has also been known as Slashcode. [1]

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Slash is a set of modules, plugins and applets — scripts or programs executed by the server — written in Perl. [2]

History

Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, in the spring of 1998. Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999. [3] Work was done by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor, resulting in version 2 of the software, released in 2001.[ citation needed ]Until 2009, Slash was maintained by Jamie McCarthy and Chris Nandor, among others. The original codebase was abandoned in September 2009.[ citation needed ]

Rehash remains primarily under the GNU General Public License and anyone can contribute to development. [4]

SoylentNews

SoylentNews is a fork of Slashdot using a 2009 fork of the Slashdot engine. [5] Michael Casadevall (NCommander), is a New York Ubuntu core developer, [6] and SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (SN PBC) president. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

On 22 May 2023 NCommander announced that SoylentNews will be shutting down on June 30 of that year. [12] [13] However, the decision was reversed in an announcement made on 5 May 2023. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Slashcode v1.0 Released - Slashdot".
  2. ↑ Chromatic; Aker, Brian; Krieger, David (January 2002). Running Weblogs with Slash . Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. ISBN   0596001002.
  3. ↑ Malda, Rob (1999-06-29). "Slashdot Acquired by Andover.net". Slashdot.
  4. ↑ "README". Rehash. GitHub. 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  5. ↑ "SoylentNews FAQ". SoylentNews. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  6. ↑ "[The Circle of HOPE] Speakers".
  7. ↑ "Welcome to SoylentNews!: SoylentNews Submission".
  8. ↑ "About Me".
  9. ↑ "Michael Casadevall".
  10. ↑ "35 Years Later, a Retro Computing Enthusiast Puts Windows 1 Back to Work". 24 May 2020.
  11. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-casadevall-a7622312 [ self-published source ]
  12. ↑ SoylentNews Site Shutdown. "soylentnews".
  13. ↑ "SoylentNews To Shut Down On June 30th". slashdot.
  14. ↑ "SoylentNews PBC Will Formally Continue Operations + Site Overhaul Status". 2023-05-05.
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