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I suspect the new management team of SourceForge and Slashdot will do their very best to right past ills and turn the tide. However, it's not a bet I'd be maki

I suspect the new management team of SourceForge and Slashdot will do their very best to right past ills and turn the tide. However, it's not a bet I'd be making. SourceForge is still home for some file distribution and, perhaps issue management, (thinking binaries) for a surprising number of projects... But for a lot of them actual development activities, the life blood of these projects, are mostly focused on github. In a sense, SourceForge is just a legacy to be dealt with. For SourceForge to come back in any meaningful way, they 1) have to do some serious modernizing and 2) github has to seriously screw up: probably rather moreso than the Dear GitHub issues. As for Slashdot, I came to HN because of the poor quality of moderation and the juvenile quality of the community on Slashdot nowadays. Perhaps it was always like that and I'm just older now... But it seems to not be the site I originally grew to love in the 90's. Last year I'd had enough and I don't see any need to go back now that I read HN.

chris_wot 11y ago
It was always like that. When it started many of us were much, much younger. I was 18! It was always a troll magnet, hell the GNAA started there. Unfortunately for Slashdot, most of us have grown up while it doesn't seem to have. I can't really see how you can change that culture, all I can think is you would have to do it very, very carefully and slowly. That said, slashdot is in a better state than SourceForge.
- sbuttgereit 11y ago
  Yeah, you're right; I was in my mid-20's, but you're spot on. I think in the past the story moderation was better so there wasn't even so much draw to look at the comments. I got to looking at the comments as the interesting links went down. You're right about the difficulty in changing the formula. People I also agree that Slashdot is in much better shape than SourceForge. While it's distasteful, they do have readers still. If the new buyers got it for the right price it might make sense to salvage Slashdot and tear down SourceForge; but sounds like they're taking the decidedly more risky approach of trying to save both.

chris_wot 11y ago

It was always like that. When it started many of us were much, much younger. I was 18! It was always a troll magnet, hell the GNAA started there. Unfortunately for Slashdot, most of us have grown up while it doesn't seem to have. I can't really see how you can change that culture, all I can think is you would have to do it very, very carefully and slowly. That said, slashdot is in a better state than SourceForge.

sbuttgereit 11y ago
Yeah, you're right; I was in my mid-20's, but you're spot on. I think in the past the story moderation was better so there wasn't even so much draw to look at the comments. I got to looking at the comments as the interesting links went down. You're right about the difficulty in changing the formula. People I also agree that Slashdot is in much better shape than SourceForge. While it's distasteful, they do have readers still. If the new buyers got it for the right price it might make sense to salvage Slashdot and tear down SourceForge; but sounds like they're taking the decidedly more risky approach of trying to save both.