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
editEarly 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
editSoylentNews 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
edit- ^ "Slashcode v1.0 Released - Slashdot". 31 March 2000.
- ^ Chromatic; Aker, Brian; Krieger, David (January 2002). Running Weblogs with Slash. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. ISBN 0596001002.
- ^ Malda, Rob (1999-06-29). "Slashdot Acquired by Andover.net". Slashdot.
- ^ "README". Rehash. GitHub. 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "SoylentNews FAQ". SoylentNews. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- ^ "[The Circle of HOPE] Speakers".
- ^ "Welcome to SoylentNews!: SoylentNews Submission".
- ^ "About Me".
- ^ "Michael Casadevall".
- ^ "35 Years Later, a Retro Computing Enthusiast Puts Windows 1 Back to Work". 24 May 2020.
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-casadevall-a7622312 [self-published source]
- ^ SoylentNews Site Shutdown. "soylentnews".
- ^ "SoylentNews To Shut Down On June 30th". slashdot. 22 May 2023.
- ^ "SoylentNews PBC Will Formally Continue Operations + Site Overhaul Status". 2023-06-05.
External links
edit- Slashcode: The Slash Open Source Project at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-04-15) — archive of former official site, inactive after 2009
- Slash on SourceForge — historical copy of Slash source code
- slashcode on GitHub — historical SoylentNews copy of Slash source code imported from SourceForge in 2009
- rehash on GitHub — SoylentNews Rehash code since 2009