Xeleema's Journal: Slashdot Still Impresses Me

After all the code-upgrades, slow-downs, Rob Malda retiring, and even changing-hands that Slashdot has done over the past...what...ten Years I've been coming here? It's the _community_ that impresses me.
Even from the Anonymous Cowards.

I've been here since the Halloween Papers...

[unitron]

Malda's not old enough to have retired from here.

But he did leave to pursue other interests.

I concur

[Penurious Penguin]

I remember before I could even use the Linux cli, looking over the shoulder of my old room-mate -- who is a lifelong programmer amongst other things -- and being intrigued by what I saw. He always seemed to make room somewhere on the screen for /.. I went and made some room myself and have maintained it since. Upon every re-format or new machine, it is the first rss I subscribe to in my browser. For all the harshness, scathing insight, trolling and occasional kindness, it has definitely inspired me along my