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Ask HN: Does anyone else miss the good parts of slashdot?
Does anyone else miss the good parts of slashdot?
My favs:
* Taglines were allowed in every post
* The rating system; e.g. +5 Troll
It was like a blend of the good light-hearted parts of Reddit combined with the technical prowess of Hacker News.
At least this is how I remember it, circa 2005 :)
- themodelplumber 4y agoI like HN with some Soylent News and SoraNews24 mixed in. You can get a pretty good Slashdot-like buzz that way... (Also I feel like there is TONS of room for really amazing rating & moderation systems still, like proving a rating & moderation engine interchange, along with allowing the user their choice of engines...use the sub-community's own, tweak it, or bring your own. And vote on your favorite engines)
- metadat 4y agoNever heard of these, thanks! https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ https://soranews24.com/ https://soranews24.com/
- ggm 4y agoYes, in the mists of time it had value. But it dropped down pretty rapidly. I personally stopped caring when I noticed the lag between novel things being shown to me on HN and on slashdot had clearly flipped to slashdot got some things later, and indirectly. I prefer prime source. I also prefer the nature of discussion here. But in the early days when /. was mostly all we had, before it got overtaken by "how to make a beowulf cluster of this" meme behaviour, it was good.