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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]

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

History

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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

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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 June 2023.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Slashcode v1.0 Released - Slashdot". 31 March 2000.
  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. 22 May 2023.
  14. ^ "SoylentNews PBC Will Formally Continue Operations + Site Overhaul Status". 2023-06-05.
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