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Me too, I read /. religiously from about `97 onwards. Once I found HN I pretty much stopped visiting it, though. The SNR is just so much higher here. One thing
by hyperbovine 17y ago
Me too, I read /. religiously from about `97 onwards. Once I found HN I pretty much stopped visiting it, though. The SNR is just so much higher here. One thing I do sometimes miss about Slashdot is its slightly more technical focus. I am completely uninterested in all the startup stuff, and find myself wading through more of it here. (Maybe I'm just in the wrong place, but I stick around because the quality of discussion on the things I do care about is high.)
- tjmc 17y agoAgreed. PG's encouragement of civil tone and discouragement of Slashdot's oh so tired in-jokes ("In Soviet Russia" et al) brought me here long ago.
- krakensden 17y agoIt's funny, I've actually sort of quit visiting HN daily and gone back to /., because the comment quality seems to be decreasing. Yes, Slashdot is still full of morons, but the moderation system just... copes with garbage better, and I have no expectations of politeness. Remember when every week there was a thread bemoaning the slow demise of Hacker News? Now that it's actually happening, no one cares.
- alayne 17y agoSlashdot was great back in the first few months and years. Like many other aggregation sites, it degraded in forum quality as the user base grew exponentially. See Usenet's Eternal September. The Well has intelligent discussions, but it can be dry and academic, not to mention it is subscription based. Digg and reddit are just overrun with lunatics and youtube-esque banter. On HN, I can read a few interesting articles and comments and feel satisfied. I am learning a lot. I hope I can contribute in the future.