Slash (software)

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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Rehash

Original author(s)| Open Source Technology Group
Developer(s)| Rehash Developers and the SoylentNews Team
Repository| github.com/SoylentNews/rehash
Written in| Perl
Predecessor| Slash
Service name| SoylentNews
Type| Content management system
License| GNU General Public License
Website| soylentnews.org

* Free and open-source software portal

SoylentNews is a fork of Slashdot using a 2009 fork of the Slashdot engine.[5] Michael Casadevall (NCommander), is a former 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 30 June 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.

## External links

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* 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