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Does anyone else find it surprising that SlashDot is the highest ranked favorite tech website amongst respondents?

• nkassis 16y ago
  Not really, I think it's still the most popular. At least from my personal experience. It's mostly due to age I think. Reddit is slowly gaining I think but I know many people who've never heard of Reddit. Digg well I don't know if they still have fans anymore. HN hopefully will never outrank Slashdot. This is from an unscientific survey of my friends and coworkers.
• Silhouette 16y ago
  Personally I've all but given up posting on Slashdot and reading the discussions since their latest redesign a few weeks ago. I was sad to do so (I first hit the karma cap back when you could still see the numerical value, for those who want to judge my "Slashdot age") but it's just too tedious to navigate the comments and too buggy to interact at all now. I still find it a useful source of general geek interest articles, though. I've been posting more on HN recently, but I find HN links and discussions tend to fall sharply into three categories: general technical/business discussions between well-informed people, material about YC start-ups or other businesses that have no particular relevance to me, and flamefests that are full of people who think they know everything and clearly don't know much about anything. The first group is enough to justify my coming here. I'm trying to be better at ignoring the second and not feeding the trolls in the third. Reddit is a curious middle-ground, because of the subreddit system. I follow a few subreddits that generally have high quality content and one or two that are mostly lighthearted, and I ignore the rest, including most of the main ones. TechCrunch sometimes carries interesting news, but as with HN, a lot of it isn't particularly relevant to me and a significant amount is just the personal opinion/ego of whoever got to write on TechCrunch this week. Given this balance, it doesn't surprise me to see the relative popularity of the sites shown as it is in the infographic.
• petercooper 16y ago
  Given that 70% of the respondents are also using Windows, no. But it's a good thing, really. They're weeks behind with the latest news and decades behind with their operating systems.. we can't fail! :-)
  • innes 16y ago
    But, isn't Slashdot dominated by Windows-haters? Maybe it's changed since I frequented the place a few years ago.
  • fabjan 16y ago
    Reddit is more Windows centric than Slashdot.