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]

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 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]

• 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