Congratulations on the exit. Slashdot started my addiction to technology news and sourceforge started the niche that has given us things like assembla and github today. Well deserved.
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.
I 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.
It 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...
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[ 68.2 ms ] story [ 1714 ms ] threadI 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.
If anything explains /.'s decline, it's the incredible friction they've imposed on participation. It's inexplicable.
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...