Hi Bryan et. al.

I honestly thought you guys abandonded working on this site based on some posts I read a few months ago. I am quite glad to see that is not the case, and happy to see improvements still rolling in. Gratz on the year, to many more.

Keep up the good work, I'm extremely busy so don't take this the wrong way but: I'll continue to check in from time to time.

Peace,
mrcoolbp

This would be easy to do via the rss feed.

I'd like to clarify a few things here:

• There was no anger on the part of the SoylentNews team that this happened
• We were mostly surprised by a huge server load (took up half the CPU's capacity on the initial scrape) and finding out about this via user comments on IRC
• NCommander said this in a post here on pipedot:

If we ever manage to get an API for our database coded, I don't think the staff (or I) would have any issue if you spooled in our articles directly (obviously, we have to get a license on new content hammered out before you could do that, but that's on our TODO).

(emphasis mine)

• There's no hard feelings anywhere, we just would have liked to know what was happening ahead of time
• Bryan's always been a great guy and remains one in our books

I love the look here too, very clean presentation. Keep up the good work. FYI though, SN is already demoing our JS comment code on our dev server dev.soylentnews.org (select "improved threaded" style)

Yes their customer service is outstanding.

Drama-mongers? Have you read your IRC logs? Didn't you get banned due to drama and trolling after repeated warnings? You could be unbanned if you could just chill out instead of shilling out. That is seeming less likely by the day thoug.

Good for you for spreading disinformation. You must feel very accomplished.

DNS was restored, site is back up. DDoS was just a read herring.

There was no DNS, people troll stuff like that in IRC.

This is the whole story, I can confirm.