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Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years. Hats off to

Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years. Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)

katastic 9y ago
You seem to write almost exclusively CPU and tech articles. Good for you. I wish your co-workers would stick to technology and lay off pushing politics. [edit] Wow, the moderators couldn't even tell I was complimenting the guy.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  I honestly agree that ArsTechnica has lost something since Jon quit (or he quit because the writing was on the door). And not as much the politics, as the feeling that the site has become more "partisan" in the tech world.
  - katastic 9y ago
    I know right? I don't feel like my opinion was really that controversial. Ars Technica has been a bittersweet story for years in all of the communities / circles that I hang out at. Some of their articles are great journalism. Others make you pine for "the good old days". I wish they'd bring back Computer Gaming World. That was the gold standard of computer journalism. You can actually find PDF's of every issue ever released online and if you compare them to today, they used to be so methodical and objective. They didn't read like advertisements and there was no forced-in message about the political climate. You didn't read about Battle Chess and get shamed for liking that the Queen looked pretty.
sillyquiet 9y ago
Yep. I found Ars via a link to a system build guide off of Slashdot oh so very many years ago.
rtx 9y ago
You all are doing good work too.
qmarchi 9y ago
Frequent reader of Ars, I don't comment/post much on Civis but enjoy reading the deep dives into updates like Oreo and iOS 11.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  Sadly these "deep dives" feels more and more shallow these days. More and more they are about "look and feel" or pixel counting rather than the meat and potatoes. Frankly these days Ars Technica could just as well be relabeled Apple Technica. The site scuttled their coverage of FOSS and similar under prominent sections, while the Apple stuff keep leaking out from their "infinite loop" section. These days if it is not Apple related, it gets binned under their generic "gadgets" section. And this from the site that got me interested in Linux in the first place back when it was black and orange, and housed a multipage introduction to Linux internals.
antod 9y ago
Yeah it was slashdot that sent me to the embryonic Ars to find out all about Pentium2 (or was it 3?) architectures, BeOS, and this new-fangled unstable unixy MacOS in beta etc.
jtmcmc 9y ago
right. slashdot, ars, anandtech were foundational websites to me growing up - amazing that this was 17+ years ago

Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years. Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)

katastic 9y ago

You seem to write almost exclusively CPU and tech articles. Good for you. I wish your co-workers would stick to technology and lay off pushing politics. [edit] Wow, the moderators couldn't even tell I was complimenting the guy.

digi_owl 9y ago
I honestly agree that ArsTechnica has lost something since Jon quit (or he quit because the writing was on the door). And not as much the politics, as the feeling that the site has become more "partisan" in the tech world.
- katastic 9y ago
  I know right? I don't feel like my opinion was really that controversial. Ars Technica has been a bittersweet story for years in all of the communities / circles that I hang out at. Some of their articles are great journalism. Others make you pine for "the good old days". I wish they'd bring back Computer Gaming World. That was the gold standard of computer journalism. You can actually find PDF's of every issue ever released online and if you compare them to today, they used to be so methodical and objective. They didn't read like advertisements and there was no forced-in message about the political climate. You didn't read about Battle Chess and get shamed for liking that the Queen looked pretty.

sillyquiet 9y ago

Yep. I found Ars via a link to a system build guide off of Slashdot oh so very many years ago.

rtx 9y ago

You all are doing good work too.

qmarchi 9y ago

Frequent reader of Ars, I don't comment/post much on Civis but enjoy reading the deep dives into updates like Oreo and iOS 11.

digi_owl 9y ago
Sadly these "deep dives" feels more and more shallow these days. More and more they are about "look and feel" or pixel counting rather than the meat and potatoes. Frankly these days Ars Technica could just as well be relabeled Apple Technica. The site scuttled their coverage of FOSS and similar under prominent sections, while the Apple stuff keep leaking out from their "infinite loop" section. These days if it is not Apple related, it gets binned under their generic "gadgets" section. And this from the site that got me interested in Linux in the first place back when it was black and orange, and housed a multipage introduction to Linux internals.

antod 9y ago

Yeah it was slashdot that sent me to the embryonic Ars to find out all about Pentium2 (or was it 3?) architectures, BeOS, and this new-fangled unstable unixy MacOS in beta etc.

jtmcmc 9y ago

right. slashdot, ars, anandtech were foundational websites to me growing up - amazing that this was 17+ years ago