Current progress on #SoylentNews is that the database is using multiple UTF-8 encodings, and I have that horrid experience that things might actually depend on this behavior and I'm scared ...

@sultmhoor Coincidentally I came across this post: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/110373196932125680

Note the first two words in the definitions of both “we need to rewrite it” and “#LegacyCode”: “It works.” If it’s profitable, you can pay down #TechnicalDebt with minimum “interest.”

But @ncommander admits #SoylentNews never had a sustainable business or community governance model.

Does #Perl lack millions of cheap commodity #programmers? Yes. But the ones it has are force multipliers.

But sure, blame the language.

I just read @ncommander 's post about the shutdown of #SoylentNews and the one thing that really struck me was this:

>Growth of some sort is important because communities have a natural attrition rate.

It makes me wonder when #HackerNews is going to suffer the same fate.

This from a news collection site I belong to called #soylentNews

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/12/19/0459211

#SoylentNews
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/11/22/163227

#SoylentNews status update
https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=22/11/20/0342250

@ncommander

Thank you for the work.
Could you post #SoylentNews status here since
http://www.soylentnews.org has been down for a while now? Just noticed http://soylentnews.org is up.

Throw some #coin to the old #AltSl
lashdot, aka, #SoylentNews

#NCommander #Donations

Check out this #backstory 🧵 ☑️

https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=22/11/10/1428220

#SoylentNews
for people who care about SoylentNews
https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=22/11/10/1428220