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Ask HN: Wondering if any of you still frequent slashdot

15 points by phakding 8y ago

Why? Why not?

cimmanom 8y ago
No. The culture became too toxic.
- gcb0 8y ago
  The culture was always toxic, if you wanted it to be. You must use the comment filters on /.
- phakding 8y ago
  Ditto for me. Too libertarian, too toxic, too uppity.
gcb0 8y ago
Yes.
icedchai 8y ago
No. Reddit replaced Slashdot for me.
- PherricOxide 8y ago
  Which subreddits are good Slashdot replacements?
  - icedchai 8y ago
    /r/programming ... /r/technology ... in general I found better stuff on reddit.
dnh44 8y ago
I still like it but it's not a daily visit for me as it once was.
PherricOxide 8y ago
Yep, I still visit it.
squarefoot 8y ago
Very rarely although I have never been that active even in the old glorious days when it didn't had that name. But I miss it (the old /.) along other sites such as Kuro5hin, plastic.com and memepool.com.
- ohiovr 8y ago
  Hey I miss plastic.com too
  - Jaruzel 8y ago
    Never heard of it? what was it? nowadays it redirects to -> https://guydeboredom.tumblr.com/ https://guydeboredom.tumblr.com/ Which in itself is seems to be a good commentary on modern society...
    - squarefoot 8y ago
      "Never heard of it? what was it?" A very nice lesser known blog with a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio compared to more common places. Here's the archived thread announcing the shutdown. https://web.archive.org/web/20110120135534/http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=11/01/07/02245750 https://web.archive.org/web/20110120135534/http://www.plasti...
    - ohiovr 8y ago
      It was a slashcode forum that was started by the people that made suck.com another site I loved very much that is long dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.com http://www.suck.com/ http://www.suck.com/
furgooswft13 8y ago
Sure. The biggest problem with it is most topics on /. seemingly appearing days after they were already hashed out on HN. On the other hand, I appreciate the raw unfiltered nonsense that still goes on in unfiltered comments. I also appreciate the curated discussion that takes place on HN. It's nice to have both.
trelliscoded 8y ago
Yes, although I can't even remember the last time I looked at the comments section.
makecheck 8y ago
I left years ago because it was one of the first sites I frequented that insisted on “helping” me with a “mobile” interface that just got in my way, especially on iPad. It was particularly annoying because their desktop design scaled up just fine if they would just let it be used. I occasionally check back now but the content is easily found on HN.
dc10 8y ago
Not for a long time. As pointed out by others, too toxic, and too commercial. I was optimistic about http://pipedot.org/ http://pipedot.org/, but it's unmaintained for a long while. Also https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ ... My impression is the comments there are sliding toward toxicity, I'm sorry to say.
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  I was excited about soylentnews also, registered over there on day of launch, and was pretty active for the first few months. I tried to help out, and at the time, not being a linux coder, I did some graphics to improve the UI a bit. Got told off the bat 'thx, but no thx' even though my icons were way better than the originals (which were from the original openslash codebase), and could have been just dropped into the build. That sort of dismissive attitude basically told me, that despite their manifesto it was really run by a secret bro-coder club who only wanted their own fiefdom to play in. So I left. Pipedot.org started off well, but I got the impression there that it was basically a one-man-band running it. The lack of resources became apparent very early on. HN is now where I happily lay my hat.
dublin 8y ago
Yes, but the quality of the community and interaction is falling. The days when you could easily mix it up with guys like Russ Nelson and Eric Raymond in /. comments are gone. Although I still occasionally find news/links to interesting things at /. before other places, that's getting to be a pretty infrequent occurrence. That said, I do miss the former quality of the community more than its timeliness, even.
sam0x17 8y ago
I check it as much as HN. I was very late to HN as no one informed me of its existance and I never noticed slashdot was dying until I saw people on HN say that. I like both since you get different results from a pure upvotes based setup and an editorial board based setup suplemented by upvotes like you see with slashdot.
itomato 8y ago
Yes. A combination of muscle memory and morbid curiosity.
Mister_X 8y ago
Yeah, I came back to Chips & Dips, uh, Slash Dot, a few years ago, after a long hiatus due to an influx of what can only be described a juvenile idiots, but apparently most of them went away, thankfully. While it's certainly not like the "old days", there are still some things of value posted on /. and the comments can still be funny, and, or, informative, if they can manage to stay on topic at least. Occasionally, a famous low number will show up and school the whipper snappers, which is always fun to watch. I almost never log-in anymore, it's been years, since I lost my original low member number password in a hard drive crash. Also, I really miss Kuro5hin, Rusty had a good thing going there, too bad it imploded. I still have my original Kuro5hin T-shirt, it's quite faded though. I mostly visit metafilter anymore, it's not tech, but often interesting. Always looking for new interesting places to hang out, like here, but I rarely log-in to post.
- Mister_X 8y ago
  Heh, remember when /. ditched the original black & white pages and added the color logo and theme, I was like, cooool, this is the future.
- blablabla123 8y ago
  Oh yeah I miss Kuro5hin as well. It should be reanimated somehow...

15 points by phakding 8y ago

Why? Why not?

cimmanom 8y ago

No. The culture became too toxic.

gcb0 8y ago
The culture was always toxic, if you wanted it to be. You must use the comment filters on /.
phakding 8y ago
Ditto for me. Too libertarian, too toxic, too uppity.

gcb0 8y ago

Yes.

icedchai 8y ago

No. Reddit replaced Slashdot for me.

PherricOxide 8y ago
Which subreddits are good Slashdot replacements?
- icedchai 8y ago
  /r/programming ... /r/technology ... in general I found better stuff on reddit.

dnh44 8y ago

I still like it but it's not a daily visit for me as it once was.

PherricOxide 8y ago

Yep, I still visit it.

squarefoot 8y ago

Very rarely although I have never been that active even in the old glorious days when it didn't had that name. But I miss it (the old /.) along other sites such as Kuro5hin, plastic.com and memepool.com.

ohiovr 8y ago
Hey I miss plastic.com too
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  Never heard of it? what was it? nowadays it redirects to -> https://guydeboredom.tumblr.com/ https://guydeboredom.tumblr.com/ Which in itself is seems to be a good commentary on modern society...
  - squarefoot 8y ago
    "Never heard of it? what was it?" A very nice lesser known blog with a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio compared to more common places. Here's the archived thread announcing the shutdown. https://web.archive.org/web/20110120135534/http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=11/01/07/02245750 https://web.archive.org/web/20110120135534/http://www.plasti...
  - ohiovr 8y ago
    It was a slashcode forum that was started by the people that made suck.com another site I loved very much that is long dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic.com http://www.suck.com/ http://www.suck.com/

furgooswft13 8y ago

Sure. The biggest problem with it is most topics on /. seemingly appearing days after they were already hashed out on HN. On the other hand, I appreciate the raw unfiltered nonsense that still goes on in unfiltered comments. I also appreciate the curated discussion that takes place on HN. It's nice to have both.

trelliscoded 8y ago

Yes, although I can't even remember the last time I looked at the comments section.

makecheck 8y ago

I left years ago because it was one of the first sites I frequented that insisted on “helping” me with a “mobile” interface that just got in my way, especially on iPad. It was particularly annoying because their desktop design scaled up just fine if they would just let it be used. I occasionally check back now but the content is easily found on HN.

dc10 8y ago

Not for a long time. As pointed out by others, too toxic, and too commercial. I was optimistic about http://pipedot.org/ http://pipedot.org/, but it's unmaintained for a long while. Also https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ ... My impression is the comments there are sliding toward toxicity, I'm sorry to say.

Jaruzel 8y ago
I was excited about soylentnews also, registered over there on day of launch, and was pretty active for the first few months. I tried to help out, and at the time, not being a linux coder, I did some graphics to improve the UI a bit. Got told off the bat 'thx, but no thx' even though my icons were way better than the originals (which were from the original openslash codebase), and could have been just dropped into the build. That sort of dismissive attitude basically told me, that despite their manifesto it was really run by a secret bro-coder club who only wanted their own fiefdom to play in. So I left. Pipedot.org started off well, but I got the impression there that it was basically a one-man-band running it. The lack of resources became apparent very early on. HN is now where I happily lay my hat.

dublin 8y ago

Yes, but the quality of the community and interaction is falling. The days when you could easily mix it up with guys like Russ Nelson and Eric Raymond in /. comments are gone. Although I still occasionally find news/links to interesting things at /. before other places, that's getting to be a pretty infrequent occurrence. That said, I do miss the former quality of the community more than its timeliness, even.

sam0x17 8y ago

I check it as much as HN. I was very late to HN as no one informed me of its existance and I never noticed slashdot was dying until I saw people on HN say that. I like both since you get different results from a pure upvotes based setup and an editorial board based setup suplemented by upvotes like you see with slashdot.

itomato 8y ago

Yes. A combination of muscle memory and morbid curiosity.

Mister_X 8y ago

Yeah, I came back to Chips & Dips, uh, Slash Dot, a few years ago, after a long hiatus due to an influx of what can only be described a juvenile idiots, but apparently most of them went away, thankfully. While it's certainly not like the "old days", there are still some things of value posted on /. and the comments can still be funny, and, or, informative, if they can manage to stay on topic at least. Occasionally, a famous low number will show up and school the whipper snappers, which is always fun to watch. I almost never log-in anymore, it's been years, since I lost my original low member number password in a hard drive crash. Also, I really miss Kuro5hin, Rusty had a good thing going there, too bad it imploded. I still have my original Kuro5hin T-shirt, it's quite faded though. I mostly visit metafilter anymore, it's not tech, but often interesting. Always looking for new interesting places to hang out, like here, but I rarely log-in to post.

Mister_X 8y ago
Heh, remember when /. ditched the original black & white pages and added the color logo and theme, I was like, cooool, this is the future.
blablabla123 8y ago
Oh yeah I miss Kuro5hin as well. It should be reanimated somehow...