Slash (software)

Slash (Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is a content management system, originally created for Slashdot, one of the oldest collaborative sites on the Internet. Slash has also been known as Slashcode.

Slash is a set of modules, plugins and applets &mdash; scripts or programs executed by the server &mdash; written in Perl.

History
Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, in the spring of 1998. Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999.

Rehash remains primarily under the GNU General Public License and anyone can contribute to development.

SoylentNews
SoylentNews is a fork of Slashdot using a 2009 fork of the Slashdot engine. Michael Casadevall (NCommander), is a New York Ubuntu core developer, and SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (SN PBC) president.

On 22 May 2023 NCommander announced that SoylentNews will be shutting down on June 30 of that year. However, the decision was reversed in an announcement made on 5 June 2023.