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Reaction Times Is Back, But Synlogos Is Better

4/6/2021

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At the end of February, Bruce Charlton reported on the apparent end of the neoreaction/alt-right/dark enlightenment/conservative blog aggregator, Reaction Times.

I noticed the site had gone down on February 15 as well, but thought my inability to access it had something to do with my being in Hungary. Anyway, the site remained inaccessible for the better part of a month; for all intents and purposes, Reaction Times did appear to have shut down (or had been forced to shut down) permanently.

In his post, Dr. Charlton noted Reaction Times had not been a specifically a Christian aggregator, but it had featured a few prominent Christian blogs. Hence, from a Christian perspective, its sudden disappearance could only be viewed as a loss, despite everything.


Soon after Bruce Charlton reported on the apparent demise of Reaction Times, Sasha Melnik posted a comment on Notions in which he announced plans to launch a new blog aggregator to fill the void Reaction Times had left behind. 

After a little experimenting, Sasha decided to skip the sagging alt-right content listed on Reaction Times and craft a specifically Christian blog aggregator instead featuring prominent bloggers such as Bruce Charlton, Vox Day, William Briggs, John C. Wright, and Roosh Valizadeh as well as lesser known Christian blogs such as From the Narrow Desert, No Longer Reading, and yes, yours truly.

Sasha named the aggregator Synlogos and employed the first verse from the Fourth Gospel as its subtitle. From a Christian perspective, Synlogos has proven to be a far more engaging and useful site than Reaction Times ever was. 

So a big thank you to Sasha Melnik for his vision and continuing efforts!

Interestingly enough,  just last week I accidentally discovered that Reaction Times was back up and running. The site's sudden reappearance is just as mysterious as its sudden disappearance six weeks ago was. As far as I can tell, it's back to business as usual over at Reaction Times, which is good.


Nevertheless, its temporary absence helped give rise to Synlogos, which is even better.


Note added: If you have not yet visited Synlogos, I strongly recommend you do. In a comment on Bruce Charlton's Notions on March 15, Sasha Melnik noted the reappearance of Reaction Times: "It appears neorxn.com is back up and running." To which Bruce Charlton replied, "Now that we have synlogos, thanks to you; neorxn has been superseded!"

My sentiments exactly. 
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Sasha Melnik
4/7/2021 15:05:38

Thank you Francis. It took a while to get it there.

There isn't even really a database, just some scheduled operations 'crons' and some 300 lines of php. As I understood it the neorxn site was some kind of wordpress module, so invariably 10-100x more code and far more fragile.

My pattern of usage - I actually use the mixed view most often, since I enjoy (in the popcorn meaning) some of the based 'hot takes' but I am very selective in my choice of clicking or not.

Sasha

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The Continental Op
4/7/2021 20:35:01

I believe Free Northerner, who runs Reaction Times, is a Christian. He tried to aggregate neo-Reaction, which wasn't explicitly Christian, but had some Christians in it. Some Jew calling himself "Mencius Molbug" was a spearhead of nRX, which tells you a lot of what was wrong with it.

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Francis Berger
4/8/2021 05:20:39

@ TCO - I am among the very few who did not read Curtis Yarvin (the individual to whom you referred) when he was a thing, so I can't comment explicitly about him or his spearheading of neoreaction.

The problem with the secular far-right is that they are little more than another variety of leftism. Without religion, more specifically Christianity, nothing the far-right offers is of much use in this time and place.

On a side note, I have nothing against Free Northerner or Reaction Times; I simply think Synlogos has developed into better aggregator.

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