NaveWeiss's Journal: What frustrates me in slashdot's journals

Is how entries get archived. It's so limiting.. I always wish people could respond always to all of my journals. In other places they don't archive entries, and it's much better. The only thing that keeps me writing here is the population (in livejournal, there's no chance anybody would notice you unless you write in other's journals....)

Hmmmm

[jawtheshark]

in livejournal, there's no chance anybody would notice you unless you write in other's journals..

And you think that is somehow different here? No, it isn't. If you didn't write something in other journals regularly, nobody will befriend you and nobody will read your ramblings.

The archiving has its good points too: How would you like it that when somebody that truly hates you starts to flood all your old journal entries with goatse links (note: goatse.cx is down to my knowlegde, and I'm not going to

Re:Hmmmm

[MonTemplar]

The Shark, he speaks the truth. Trust the Shark.

-MT.

Re:Hmmmm

[NaveWeiss]

Well, my truth is deeper! You should read now what I wrote back to him (thanks for reminding me to do that. ;)

Re:Hmmmm

[jawtheshark]

Your confidence in me is flattering, oh, Master of "News for everyone, as long as it's funny and intriguing."

Re:Hmmmm

[NaveWeiss]

Hi.

And you think that is somehow different here? No, it isn't. If you didn't write something in other journals regularly, nobody will befriend you and nobody will read your ramblings.

Some people check this [slashdot.org] list. Really!
LJ has a similar thing but it updates so fast that I believe people are scared from it.

And the other thing: Archiving...... Well, in lj you can erase other's comments so it's not a problem. And still, sometimes I post a journal with an important question, and when someone wants to answe

Re:Hmmmm

[jawtheshark]

I did check that list in the beginning. However, I have over 30 slashdot messages on a single day. (Slow news day that that is). I barely have time to keep up with my friends now, and I still add those that befriend me.

Try to see slashdot less as a Blog, but more as a personal publishing space. A bit like your own magazine where you are your own editor, the comments are equivalent of readers lettres to the editor.
If you pick up a five month old magazine and you suddenly have a great critique on one of

Space

[FortKnox]

It comes to the space issue. After a while, a page is printed to html, and saved in file format. That saves DB space. Keeping entries open would bloat the DB, and slashcode is not setup as a datawarehouse (though it prolly should be).

Re:Space

[NaveWeiss]

The pages aren printed to HTML page indeed - at least the articles (not the journals), but all the comments are still stored in the DB - otherwise you couldn't have changed the threshold settings on archived pages nor see comment history for comments in archived discussions.

But it's true - archiving saves DB space. Even K5 began doing that to the dismay of some of its users (although they archive stories after much longer time). But archiving sucks and while it's acceptable for stories, it's not good for j