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I still visit /., I just avoid the comments because its 4chan-y in there. My first /. account was created in 1997. What I like about /. interface is that there
by demondemidi 3y ago
I still visit /., I just avoid the comments because its 4chan-y in there. My first /. account was created in 1997.
What I like about /. interface is that there is a summary under each article, and there are only ~10 articles on the main page, and I find the topics more focused on what I'm interested in.
HN is just a flood of random stuff and I'm usually only interested in ~10% of what's on the front page, compared to 80% of /. front page. HN needs channels.
- cmdrtaco 3y agoPublic user accounts on slashdot were created in 1998 :)
- demondemidi 3y agoHa! Awesome. Thanks Cmdr. Yeah that was 25ish years ago, as I said in a different post I was living abroad for a year that spanned 1997 into 1998. I was off by a few months apparently.
- gadders 3y agoHow can you tell when your account was created? I know I was reading it pre 9/11 but can't find an "account created on" page.
- demondemidi 3y agoThere's this thing called "human memory", heard of it? :) Kidding. It is easy for me because I was living in Porto for a year and I chose my username to be the street my apartment was on.
- pavon 3y agoIf you go to Achievements in your profile, there is one for years read, which shows a date that I assume is the account creation date. Correction: Doing the math, it looks like the date on which the achievement was earned, so subtract off the years read from the date to get account creation date.
- ydant 3y agoDoesn't work for mine. I just have "Days Read" (no "Years Read"). My "Days Read" is a small number and dated 2009, but I was posting comments in 2007. All of my achievements are from 2009.
- schlauerfox 3y agoIn the early culture your slashdot id # of digits was bragging rights, at the time I was proud of my 6 digit, but the culture there is very toxic now and all it means is I was older or an earlier "lucky 10000". Status seeking is a childish endeavour, but in my defense I was a child.
- ta1243 3y agoYou must be new here...
- gadders 3y agoMy 10 years read is in 2003, which would mean I started reading in 1993, but Slashdot says they only started in 1997. I do have an id in the 7x,xxx range. Not sure if I can work much out from that.