Ask HN: Wondering if any of you still frequent slashdot

No. The culture became too toxic.

Yes.

No. Reddit replaced Slashdot for me.

I still like it but it's not a daily visit for me as it once was.

Yep, I still visit it.

Very rarely although I have never been that active even in the old glorious days when it didn't had that name. But I miss it (the old /.) along other sites such as Kuro5hin, plastic.com and memepool.com.

Sure. The biggest problem with it is most topics on /. seemingly appearing days after they were already hashed out on HN.

On the other hand, I appreciate the raw unfiltered nonsense that still goes on in unfiltered comments. I also appreciate the curated discussion that takes place on HN. It's nice to have both.

Yes, although I can't even remember the last time I looked at the comments section.

I left years ago because it was one of the first sites I frequented that insisted on “helping” me with a “mobile” interface that just got in my way, especially on iPad. It was particularly annoying because their desktop design scaled up just fine if they would just let it be used.

I occasionally check back now but the content is easily found on HN.

Not for a long time. As pointed out by others, too toxic, and too commercial.

I was optimistic about http://pipedot.org/, but it's unmaintained for a long while.

Also https://soylentnews.org/ ... My impression is the comments there are sliding toward toxicity, I'm sorry to say.

Yes, but the quality of the community and interaction is falling. The days when you could easily mix it up with guys like Russ Nelson and Eric Raymond in /. comments are gone. Although I still occasionally find news/links to interesting things at /. before other places, that's getting to be a pretty infrequent occurrence. That said, I do miss the former quality of the community more than its timeliness, even.

I check it as much as HN. I was very late to HN as no one informed me of its existance and I never noticed slashdot was dying until I saw people on HN say that. I like both since you get different results from a pure upvotes based setup and an editorial board based setup suplemented by upvotes like you see with slashdot.

Yes. A combination of muscle memory and morbid curiosity.

Yeah, I came back to Chips & Dips, uh, Slash Dot, a few years ago, after a long hiatus due to an influx of what can only be described a juvenile idiots, but apparently most of them went away, thankfully. While it's certainly not like the "old days", there are still some things of value posted on /. and the comments can still be funny, and, or, informative, if they can manage to stay on topic at least. Occasionally, a famous low number will show up and school the whipper snappers, which is always fun to watch. I almost never log-in anymore, it's been years, since I lost my original low member number password in a hard drive crash. Also, I really miss Kuro5hin, Rusty had a good thing going there, too bad it imploded. I still have my original Kuro5hin T-shirt, it's quite faded though. I mostly visit metafilter anymore, it's not tech, but often interesting. Always looking for new interesting places to hang out, like here, but I rarely log-in to post.