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Slashdot was a big part of my early years in the tech industry. It had it's own cultural quirks, but overall was a great place to get general 'news for nerds'.
by socceroos 11y ago
Slashdot was a big part of my early years in the tech industry. It had it's own cultural quirks, but overall was a great place to get general 'news for nerds'. I still visit every so often as it gives a slightly different angle on the industry to HN. Much like lxer.com.
- vermontdevil 11y agoLoved that site until the past few years with the UI changes. Will never forget CmdrTaco review of iPod.
- sixdimensional 11y agoI for one welcome our new corporate overlords! f1rst p0st! How about a Beowulf cluster of those?? Ah, the good old days... :)
- FigBug 11y agoNatalie Portman, naked and petrified and covered in hot grits
- cjp 11y agoAll your base! Those were some good times.
- nailer 11y agoConstantly referring to 'M$FT' to be edgy. Good times. Seriously though 2016 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
- meric 11y agoIf you think about it, the year of the Linux mobile has happened already.
- nailer 11y agoI guess that was the point: everyone was trying to conquer the desktop when the desktop was already giving way to a more dominant form of computing. But hey, the Linux kernel and Konqueror basically won consumers in the end.
- frik 11y agoThe Borg icon of Bill. And the /. pony logo. And the 9/11 live coverage on Slashdot, when every other news site was down, Slashdot was up and running: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-towers-and-pentagon-attacked http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-tower... and http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-harbor http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-har... Ah, fond memories.
- rtee334 11y agoCareful, you can't says those things nowadays
- KineticLensman 11y agoYou should have put it like this... "Careful, In Soviet Amerika, interweb censors you"
- filoeleven 11y agoMy favorite Slashdot comment was attached to a story about discovering spycams in Russia. I don't remember the particulars of the story, but the entirely apropos comment was, "In Soviet Russia, ducts tape you!"
- JoshTriplett 11y agoBSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it. Slashdot is also where I first saw http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt posted. Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")?
- cperciva 11y agoAnyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")? I had a few of those. I was more proud of my "(Score: -1, Insightful)" though.
- lmm 11y agoBest I ever managed was a +4, Flamebait.
- adekok 11y agoHaving been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole spam problem. ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem 2) Do you have a solution to the whole spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you're a FUSTTSP scammer ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem. The explicit approach by the SMTP people was both of the above at the same time. Incremental solutions were derided as "the spammers will just try something else". Major fixes to SMTP were derided as "it takes a decade to deploy a new protocol". Well, it's been a decade since I was involved. Changes to SMTP practices mean that I've got jump through more hoops to prove my worthiness when I send email. But the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't gone down.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoSearching turns up zero results for "FUSTTSP" apart from your comment. Can you elaborate?
- wslh 11y agoI was a reader too but really hated their pedantic attitude: difficulty for passing their filter to post a news, and the owners not modifying a post when you pointed to an inaccurate news item (e.g: claiming that a security bug was discovered by someone else).
- abrookewood 11y agoIt was a big part of my news in the past too. But I started hating the attitude and snarkiness that overtook the site. People lost the art of discussing and debating things and instead focussed on too-often repeated memes and abuse. Honestly, I fond Hacker News and never went back. I actually think I had forgotten it even existed until this post. As for SourceForge ... good riddance to that malware infested cesspit.
- sageabilly 11y agoI used to go to SlashDot, in the same way that I come to HN now- for good tech-related news that I couldn't find anywhere else. The comments used to spawn great swaths of related research but now I might as well go to 4chan. Fortunately HN is still awesome and the comments always add to a discussion.
- frik 11y agoMe too. Slashdot's comment system was a bit more advanced. Slashdot's downwind came from Digg, Reddit and HN. Though the insightful comments switched directly from Slashdot to HN. And HN is changing too, less startup news, bubble fears, more general public audience, more corporate spam (and voting rings, sock puppets) - though it's still a very great community and I hope it remains like that for several more years. A tech news site is great because of the comments and the news selection - and the HN algorithms work usually great.
- Shivetya 11y agoEarly on they were a great site, then they let politics take over, either directly or indirect. The indirect story method happens here too, a moderately technology oriented or business oriented title but an article usually bashing one side of the political spectrum. /. screwed up because they let their bias be known and moderation was obviously affected. Don't miss the site for it became, do miss it for what it was.
- pferde 11y agosoylentnews.org has became quite good in the short time they are alive.