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I 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
by sageabilly 11y ago
I 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.