4 ms·
Sadly, Slashdot hasn't been nice since mid-late 2000's, and pretty much a cesspool since 2010. It used to be that you could still find some intelligent discussi
by astral303 14y ago
Sadly, Slashdot hasn't been nice since mid-late 2000's, and pretty much a cesspool since 2010. It used to be that you could still find some intelligent discussion through about 2009-2010 in most stories. Now, there's none.
I don't think it can really be destroyed, as it's got nowhere worse to go. I doubt they would close down something that so many of us still instinctively type into the URL bar.
- gaius 14y agoEarly 00's I would have said (I have a low-4-digit ID on there).
- officemonkey 14y agoSlashdot lost its edge in 2006 when Digg and Reddit started making a scene. It's been a long slow decline since then.
- manys 14y agoI forget what year it was, but I basically stopped visiting after they changed over to the current design that was, for me, impossible to use. I find it sadly humorous that they still have those ridiculous "you know how to type...slow down!" posting barriers. If anything explains /.'s decline, it's the incredible friction they've imposed on participation. It's inexplicable.
- pasbesoin 14y agoIt still catches some interesting stories that the other aggregators I visit miss. But I haven't gotten much if anything out of the conversation threads in some years. Even after it became somewhat "swamped", for a while one could still find some interesting comments. (Not infrequently, those having rather low user ID values.) I suppose I should re-enable Javascript for it and sort out the "4" and "5" rated comments. But I disabled JS when the interface became so bogged down by it, and if nothing else I'm lazy...