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Feels like the Slashdot guys chased the wrong end of blogging. Rather than seeing what Drupal/Wordpress saw (building the site is the real money) the Slashodt f

Feels like the Slashdot guys chased the wrong end of blogging. Rather than seeing what Drupal/Wordpress saw (building the site is the real money) the Slashodt folks chased the advertising/traffic side to their site. It seems really obvious now, 20 years later, that they should've spent time on Slashcode and made that better for a larger audience and they could've maybe turned out to be something like Drupal or WordPress now. I totally love slashdot still, tried like hell to run Slashcode many years ago, but it always feel like they were focused on Slashdot.org rather than making slashcode work for many other sites. (really not meant as a criticisms at all, just thinking about the good old days and what its like looking back now)

cmdrtaco 9y ago
Our shoestring budget probably prevented us from chasing that rabbit like it deserved. And Frankly there were far more seismic shifts that rocked us more.
- alex_hitchins 9y ago
  Can you divulge any of those seismic shifts? Would be interesting to hear.
- EpicEng 9y ago
  I'd also love to hear some behind the scenes details if you're willing. I was on /. every day for years.
bluedino 9y ago
>> they should've spent time on Slashcode and made that better for a larger audience and they could've maybe turned out to be something like Drupal or WordPress now. I'd be curious as to how much of the original code is left, but there's "Forked from Slashcode, rehash is the codebase that powers SoylentNews.org, powered by mod_perl 2" https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash I wonder if a Perl-based CMS would have became as popular...Part of the appeal of Wordpress is any goober that 'knows a little PHP' can hack on it.
sparrish 9y ago
I remember more than a late night or two building slashcode sites (those perl scripts took a long time) while playing 'America's Army'. Fun times.

cmdrtaco 9y ago

Our shoestring budget probably prevented us from chasing that rabbit like it deserved. And Frankly there were far more seismic shifts that rocked us more.

alex_hitchins 9y ago
Can you divulge any of those seismic shifts? Would be interesting to hear.
EpicEng 9y ago
I'd also love to hear some behind the scenes details if you're willing. I was on /. every day for years.

bluedino 9y ago

>> they should've spent time on Slashcode and made that better for a larger audience and they could've maybe turned out to be something like Drupal or WordPress now. I'd be curious as to how much of the original code is left, but there's "Forked from Slashcode, rehash is the codebase that powers SoylentNews.org, powered by mod_perl 2" https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash I wonder if a Perl-based CMS would have became as popular...Part of the appeal of Wordpress is any goober that 'knows a little PHP' can hack on it.

sparrish 9y ago

I remember more than a late night or two building slashcode sites (those perl scripts took a long time) while playing 'America's Army'. Fun times.