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I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucke
by garciasn 3y ago
I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma.
They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into.
Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
- norrland4ever 3y agoWhat is /. ?
- evandale 3y agoSlashdot https://slashdot.org https://slashdot.org I've started looking at that and arstechnica for my tech news replacements.
- mplanchard 3y agoslashdot.org
- deadcat 3y agoSlashdot website, which was once a massive tech discussion site.
- terrytwillstein 3y agoSlashdot.
- pixelatedindex 3y agoSlashdot, if I had to guess
- mjhagen 3y agoThis hurts.
- darknavi 3y agohttps://slashdot.org/ https://slashdot.org/
- lost_padawan 3y agoSlashdot
- ojizero 3y agoI believe he means Slashdot (https://slashdot.org https://slashdot.org).
- comprev 3y agoAs others have said, it's Slashdot - which got it's name from trying to spell out the web address over the phone. Silly and confusing... h..t..t..p..colon..slash..slash..slashdot..dot..org When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!) connections. These asynchronous connections had terrible upload speed by design. If their webpage hit the front news of Slashdot, their upload bandwidth very quickly ran out due to the torrent of traffic!
- rimunroe 3y agoMy brother writes xkcd. In 2006 I was living at home while attending community college. At the time, his site was still hosted on the old HP desktop that used to sit in our family room and now sat in his old bedroom. One day I was playing in an unofficial Counter-Strike tournament when one of his comics (possibly "Pi Equals"[1]) got posted to either Slashdot or Boing Boing. My ping immediately went from probably ~25 ms to over 300, and then I timed out completely. I think it took us a couple hours to get our connection back, which I assume involved getting a new IP address. Sadly, I didn't win the tournament. [1] https://xkcd.com/10/ https://xkcd.com/10/
- lamontcg 3y agoThe best posts are sometimes found in the comments
- comprev 3y agoPlease thank your brother! Some of his work has genuinely turned shit days into a positive ones over the years.
- rimunroe 3y agoAw I’m glad to hear that
- Eisenstein 3y ago
- M3GZ 3y agoSlashdot, I assume
- anthlax 3y agoSlash dot
- devilcius 3y agoslashdot.org
- happyhaller27 3y agoSlashdot
- omniglottal 3y agoslashdot.org
- evandale 3y agoSlashdot
- MivLives 3y agoSlash dot, an older tech site news that was popular pre digg/reddit
- katbyte 3y agoslashdot. it was (i think) the first news aggregator everyone used, then digg, then reddit.
- slashtab 3y agoslashdot
- proamdev123 3y agoSlashdot
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- whynotmaybe 3y agoLiterally "slash dot". https://www.slashdot.org/ https://www.slashdot.org/
- gkbrk 3y agoSlashdot
- jlokier 3y agoSlashdot, one of the oldest big tech/nerdy news and comment web forums (like HN) on the net. In many ways it pioneered voting and moderation systems we see today. https://slashdot.org/ https://slashdot.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
- UltimateEdge 3y agoslashdot.org
- absoflutely 3y agoSlashdot
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- AlexCoventry 3y agolobste.rs
- takeda 3y agoThere's also tildes.net (like early Reddit set up as non profit, invite only, but not hard to get an invite) and also open source distributed https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/
- EamonnMR 3y agoWhen you say "not hard to get an invite" what do you mean?
- takeda 3y agoThere's an e-mail on the website to request an invite (it's in contacts). This is what I did and got invite next day. They also regularly open the invite threads here: https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/ https://old.reddit.com/r/tildes/ Also people who have been there for a while (not me) can invite their friends.
- pizzalife 3y ago16 year club here.. same. I came to reddit from the digg DVD exodus. Time to drop this habit.
- iak8god 3y agoI'm boycotting reddit this week, and I will never use their app, but I just don't know where else to go for communities related to niche non-tech interests, and state & local stuff. I guess Facebook groups, but FB is practically unusable these days.
- sethhochberg 3y agoJust a few weeks ago I went through the exercise of closing my FB account because I was getting all of my local NYC discussion from subreddits, instead. Poor timing I guess. If reddit bungles this whole thing, the loss of /r/asknyc will be truly tragic. Such a great way to crowdsource local recommendations without the extra veneer of tourist feedback on top.
- lawkwok 3y agoIt will be very sad. It's been a pleasant era for Reddit-fu.
- stevenwliao 3y agoWhat's wrong with FB groups? It's almost as good at surfacing good stuff as Reddit for my niche interests and it has a lot of buy/sell/trade activity that never makes it to eBay or Reddit.
- trostaft 3y agoDid the same, but I took a step further and deleted my account. I had been using the site for over a decade, I knew that if I didn't cut off the path behind me I'd be tempted to linger. I'll miss my local and hobby subreddits. I hope I find something to replace them.