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That's a nice announcement to see. How are Sourceforge and Slashdot these days? It's cool to see this umbrella opening up. Have the dynamics changed for SF and
by themodelplumber 6y ago
That's a nice announcement to see. How are Sourceforge and Slashdot these days? It's cool to see this umbrella opening up. Have the dynamics changed for SF and /. since the purchase? I interact with Sourceforge for downloads a few times a month, but I don't spend much time there otherwise.
- blackhaz 6y agoAlas, Slashdot has lost my interest. It was more meaty back in the day. Or maybe it's I am changing.. IDK.
- voidmain0001 6y agoCmdrTaco FTW!
- fghorow 6y agoTypo! I think you mean Cowboy Neal! ;-)
- sundvor 6y agoYou must be new here.
- herewulf 6y agoI, for one, welcome our Y Combinator overlords.
- teel 6y ago...but only in Soviet Russia, you insensitive clod!
- sundvor 6y agoImagine a Beowulf cluster of these comments.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoNo pics. Less title space than on reddit. Lame.
- stallmanite 6y agoNatalie Portman, Hot Grits, Beowulf clusters.
- roelschroeven 6y agoIt's not just you. I've been reading since the end of last century, and I still go there regularly. It used to be the case that every day there were at least a few posts interesting posts there, that I hadn't yet read somewhere else. It kinda was my portal in the world of technology news. That's not the case anymore: the posts now are mostly not interesting (to me, at least), and mostly not exactly news anymore. What I used to value about Slashdot were mostly the comments (much like here on Hacker News). Yes, there was lots of spam, but when reading on level 2 or 3 much of the comments did add value to the story. These days the comments have decreased very significantly, both in quantity and quality. Slashdot really used to be much more meaty, as you say. These days I get my tech news from Ars Technica, Hacker News, LWN, and some Reddit subs.
- ravenstine 6y agoI can't remember the last time I downloaded from Sourceforge. I wouldn't ever trust them again unless they basically started from scratch and were ran by completely different people.
- solarkraft 6y agoI can. The UX is as crappy as ever.
- zapzupnz 6y agoI didn't understand, at the time of its last major refresh which was a fair while ago now, how SourceForge could be so resource intensive — all it needed to do was show links to download files. That was it. Instead, it was packed to the rafters with Flash ads; the layout was bloated with unnecessarily large, unoptimised graphic files; and, the most prominent button to download didn't actually do that — it would take you to a page where you could select a server to download. That's your job, SourceForge, not mine. I think that design comes from another era. All I've seen happen to it since is cutting out some of the graphics, changing the colour scheme a little, and switching to HTML ads. It's still from another era.
- berkes 6y agoUnfortunately the era of bloated ads and unoptimized graphics never passed.
- lsllc 6y agoUnfortunately, it looks a bit like a shady warez site and I do find it somewhat non-intuitive (at least compared to github).
- rossdavidh 6y agoI think maybe the last part is true, but maybe not the first part.
- unexpected 6y ago
- acomjean 6y agoIt seems to still work. I haven't really been a user since 2012 (although I just checked and my password from then still works..) Right now it seems to have similar stories to here. Though if you scroll to the bottom you see the click bait type ads prevalent to the modern web
- runawaybottle 6y agoSlashdot comments are still pretty good, better than HN if you have the stomach for it.