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Agreed. HN is what it is, it's not an all-encompassing tech news aggregator like Slashdot was. HN is fairly focused with a few outside stories that creep in h

by Zimahl 13y ago

Agreed. HN is what it is, it's not an all-encompassing tech news aggregator like Slashdot was. HN is fairly focused with a few outside stories that creep in here and there. I know everyone likes to run the 'back in my day' line every now and then so I might as well. Slashdot is crap now. Back in my day things were fairly relevant and, while there was a slight lag, if the story was interesting it made it to Slashdot quickly. Now stories might not show up for not just hours, but days! By then it's been discussed elsewhere to death so you only read the Slashdot comments for snark and not insight. The technology section of Google News is better than Slashdot (sans comments). Also, the design of Slashdot is so 2003 it hurts. They let the look and feel get too long in the tooth and people abandoned it for better sites.

Shivetya 13y ago
Slashdot died the day it got political and worse when such became entrenched. By political I mean election oriented material to the point that crossover polluted seemingly unrelated stories. Hence why during a discussion here about politics I stated I would prefer a "hide" flag next to the "flag" link that I could use to remove stories from my view under the notion that maybe someone wants to get into that stuff here.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  Aren't there a few greasemon... aw hell, I'll just look it up for you. # Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 also mentioned in the thread http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
- prawn 13y ago
  I think what killed Slashdot was the devolution of commenting to karma-racing with predictable "funny" responses. So-called obligatory "That's no moon..." jokes and so on. The absence of that was certainly what I found so refreshing when I first discovered Hacker News.
Gormo 13y ago
> Also, the design of Slashdot is so 2003 it hurts. This is a feature, not a bug. Web design trends have become awful over the past 3-5 years. HN is even better - simple and functional - and it wouldn't be out of place in 1999.
- Zimahl 13y ago
  But HN isn't out of place in 2013 and Slashdot is. That's what matters. You can call it a feature all you want but if a new user goes to your site and dismisses it because of the look, you've done something wrong.
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  - Gormo 13y ago
    You keep referencing dates as though the calendar has something substantive to say about web design; what actual problems do you see with Slashdot's design?
    - Zimahl 13y ago
      If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. You might not care but engaging people and increasing views are important to a new aggregator.
      - chris_wot 13y ago
        The question is: what are the problems with slashdot's design? "Time" is not an answer.
      - Gormo 13y ago
        > If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. "Design" is not synonymous with "ephemeral fashion"; good design principles appeal to human perception and cognition irrespective of what was popular yesterday or which page of the calendar is facing up today. You've still yet to articulate any substantive criticism of Slashdot's design.

by Zimahl 13y ago

Shivetya 13y ago

Slashdot died the day it got political and worse when such became entrenched. By political I mean election oriented material to the point that crossover polluted seemingly unrelated stories. Hence why during a discussion here about politics I stated I would prefer a "hide" flag next to the "flag" link that I could use to remove stories from my view under the notion that maybe someone wants to get into that stuff here.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
Aren't there a few greasemon... aw hell, I'll just look it up for you. # Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories from HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 also mentioned in the thread http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
prawn 13y ago
I think what killed Slashdot was the devolution of commenting to karma-racing with predictable "funny" responses. So-called obligatory "That's no moon..." jokes and so on. The absence of that was certainly what I found so refreshing when I first discovered Hacker News.

Gormo 13y ago

> Also, the design of Slashdot is so 2003 it hurts. This is a feature, not a bug. Web design trends have become awful over the past 3-5 years. HN is even better - simple and functional - and it wouldn't be out of place in 1999.

Zimahl 13y ago
But HN isn't out of place in 2013 and Slashdot is. That's what matters. You can call it a feature all you want but if a new user goes to your site and dismisses it because of the look, you've done something wrong.
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- Gormo 13y ago
  You keep referencing dates as though the calendar has something substantive to say about web design; what actual problems do you see with Slashdot's design?
  - Zimahl 13y ago
    If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. You might not care but engaging people and increasing views are important to a new aggregator.
    - chris_wot 13y ago
      The question is: what are the problems with slashdot's design? "Time" is not an answer.
    - Gormo 13y ago
      > If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design. "Design" is not synonymous with "ephemeral fashion"; good design principles appeal to human perception and cognition irrespective of what was popular yesterday or which page of the calendar is facing up today. You've still yet to articulate any substantive criticism of Slashdot's design.