And when all you're doing is trying to communicate a few ideas with links. I shouldn't have to remember the full HREF specification to link out or ul,ol,li to make a list. For short terse online discussion it's a perfectly cromulent language.
I've taken a look at Slashdot's homepage with no adblock or anything - completely filled with flashing banner ads, video ads for cosmetics, clickbait links from Taboola, etc.
Are you comparing 1999 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit or 2015 Slashdot to 2015 Reddit?
Slashdot even used to reward you for not making shit posts. There was a simple checkbox to turn all of that off if you had enough Karma. They actually valued your posts so much to drive people to
I used to hate that I never knew what my Karma was. But now I'm glad I didn't. It just turns people into narcissists as they try and go for more link and post karma. "Excellent" is all I needed to know.
could only have come from Sourceforge downloads.
Well I guess it's one way to cash out before you lose all market share to GitHub.
timeliness, factual accuracy, the degree to which it's on topic, and several other characteristics all factor in.
Factual accuracy and degree on topic hasn't stopped Slashdot from trying to shoehorn a SJW narrative in or other stuff that would have never been relevant on slashdot a decade ago.
This isn't Reddit, quit trying to shove what ever narrative Dice is pushing and leave it about tech. You're certainly not going to lure any teens and 20 somethings to Slashdot and all you're doing is pissing off all the Slashdotters here that would stay if it wasn't for shit like this.
They rebranded as Kodi a while ago Kodi.
If you're still using a media center PC I would suggest getting an Amazon Fire or other small Arm box. Ours handles everything just fine.
I suppose you could put it that way. Slashdot and SourceForge have been under the same roof for a long time, but they've always been separate entities. I have no interaction with the SourceForge folks on a daily basis.
I acknowledge that this was a fuck up. As I said in my note on the story, I'm sorry it took so long for this post to go up.
People are going to look for reasons to be mad, no matter what I do. They're entitled to that. I'm just doing what I can to make the situation right.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, you're talking about two different things. The reason it wasn't posted immediately is that we were attempting to put together a more detailed post. The reason I posted it now is because people started getting upset and suspicious about our lack of a post.
It's just the Nth 'eternal September'.
It's also happening to Little Registry Cleaner. If you don't read every dialog box very, very carefully you end up with crapware (look at the reviews).
The tail end of GenX/Initial GenYs that originally ran Slashdot have moved on with their lives. They sold out (no problem with that, I would have too). Dice put a bunch of kids that grew up on Reddit in charge so you see Slashdot trying to mirror Reddit's content, 'messege', tone & look and it's showing to old hat
If anyone is bored and looking for a place to lure my 30s year old self. Redo slashdot, allow markdown, bbedit, html, LaTeX.. editing. Keep the -2 to +5 moderation system because it limits band-wagoning and group think. Now that everyone can have an opinion it shows. I used to revel in the days that little 19 year old me was bestowed with 5 points to vote with (and tried to ration them accordingly).
Design a proper responsive layout (It was not Beta) and keep it about tech
I'm looking for a good place to discuss stuff that is relevant to me like Slashdot used to be. Reddit is good for certain things. Long drawn out posts with actual information isn't one of them. Everyone wants a tl;dr:.
[And this message took longer to type than one in Markdown because HTML is pretty slow now that I use markdown for everything, blog and all. Not that I don't know but ** is easier, ~~~~, ]
You're conflating two different things -- the story wasn't posted immediately because we were trying to gather more information. When I got in this morning, I saw people were upset that it was taking so long, so I posted it.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.