astrashe's Journal: First entry -- stories from the future

I don't know if anyone will read this. I've enabled comments, so I'll probably get taunted a lot.

Anyway, I think I might be the person who thought up what is probably the best slashdot subscriber plum, early access to stories.

This is where I suggested it.

If anyone knows the history of the plum, I'd be curious to know if they took the idea from my post, or if they thought of it on their own.

I finally broke down and subscribed, and I have to say that I like the plum a lot, it's just as helpful as I thought it would be.

First Post!

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Nope, don't know the history. But yeah, what we have looks an aweful lot like exactly your idea.

And it was a good one, not just as a "plum" but also as a minor performance hack. I think that anything the breaks up the time that we all see a story, and therefore distributes the load of a Slashdotting over more time, is good.