Submission + - SPAM: Ask Slashdot: Is Slashdot website code still open source? How to contribute?
It is unclear whether Slashdot still uses Slash or some newer look-alike since around 2009.
The wikipedia page continues:
Slashdot runs on Slash, a content management system available under the GNU General Public License. Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda in the spring of 1998. After Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999, several programmers were hired to structure the code and render it scalable, as its users had increased from a few hundred to tens of thousands. This work was done by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor, resulting in version 2 of the software, released in 2001. Slash remains Free software and anyone can contribute to development.
External links from the wiki page:
- Slash on SouceForge which has last update 2016-03-11
- slashcode on GitHub which has last update 2015-04-21
- rehash on GitHub, SoylentNews Rehash code which has last update 2023-01-01
About Slashdot contains the following information:
This is Slashdot, a website based on and running the Slashdot-Like Automated Story-Telling Homepage software. This link then points to Slash Git which has last update 2009-09-22.
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