Slash

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]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 SoylentNews
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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 June 2023.[14]

## References

1. ↑ "Slashcode v1.0 Released - Slashdot". https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/03/31/1027252/slashcode-v10-released.
2. ↑ Chromatic; Aker, Brian; Krieger, David (January 2002). Running Weblogs with Slash. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. ISBN 0596001002. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780596001001.
3. ↑ Malda, Rob (1999-06-29). "Slashdot Acquired by Andover.net". Slashdot. http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/29/137212/slashdot-acquired-by-andovernet.
4. ↑ "README". Rehash. GitHub. 2020-01-14. https://github.com/soylentnews/rehash. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
5. ↑ "SoylentNews FAQ". https://soylentnews.org/faq.pl. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
6. ↑ "[The Circle of HOPE] Speakers". https://xii.hope.net/speakers.html.
7. ↑ "Welcome to SoylentNews!: SoylentNews Submission". https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1.
8. ↑ "About Me". https://casadevall.pro/about/.
9. ↑ "Michael Casadevall". https://www.f6s.com/michaelcasadevall.
10. ↑ "35 Years Later, a Retro Computing Enthusiast Puts Windows 1 Back to Work". 24 May 2020. https://thenewstack.io/35-years-later-a-retro-computing-enthusiast-puts-windows-1-back-to-work/.
11. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-casadevall-a7622312 [self-published source]
12. ↑ SoylentNews Site Shutdown. "soylentnews". https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/05/20/0343254.
13. ↑ "SoylentNews To Shut Down On June 30th". https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/05/22/2059211/soylentnews-to-shut-down-on-june-30th.
14. ↑ "SoylentNews PBC Will Formally Continue Operations + Site Overhaul Status". 2023-06-05. https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/06/04/226212.

## External links

* -- archive of former official site, inactive after 2009
* Slash on SourceForge.net -- historical copy of Slash source code
* on GitHub -- historical SoylentNews copy of Slash source code imported from SourceForge in 2009
* on GitHub -- SoylentNews Rehash code since 2009

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