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YUP, checking back here 24 hours later (now roughly midnight Sunday night in London) and the article has 68 posts and is at the bottom of the front page.

Nicely handled by the editors/admin of the site, well done guys.

But we know that you guys are playing games like this and it alienates us from you. Others have posted here a "thank you" for fixing the problem, and others pointed out that it's all crap they don't care and they just want the advertising revenue, which is further evidence of the bad will SlashDice is creating with the community.

Once the community is gutted of the people who "know shit" and "post iconic" and "invaluable" comments, the site will fall. Sure, enjoy your million page impressions per day and hundreds of forum posts from drooling idiots. Yay! But the heart and soul of the site will be gutted, and without the core contributors, the site will fall.

Interesting times! Digg failed years ago. Reddit looks to be well on its way now. And SlashDice is all but a shadow of its former self.

Who will fill the void? Soylent? Or my personal favorite (the dev has done an incredible job) PipeDot? Or something else...

https://soylentnews.org/

SoylentNews is a Slashdot-knockoff which appeared during the protest against the "beta" interface. The site runs on a fork of slashcode and has a very similar moderation system. Predictably, the community consists largely of former and current Slashdotters and the overall culture is very similar.

Time to go find another tech news site.

I agree

It's a shame we can't do something similar to get some changes made

Something similar is being done.

https://soylentnews.org/

Which brings me to my next point: you could move away from that horrible food by moving to something like Soylent or vegetables and it'd likely be cheaper.

Bonus: moving to Soylent lets you leave the Share button behind.

As Dice transforms /. into yet another random site (video section, meaningless pictures attached to articles, and now social media buttons), it become clear that I am no longer part of their target audience. I hate those crappy social media share buttons - they're nothing but trackers in another form.

Hello Soylent

> That slashdot didn't support unicode

However Soylent News has had full unicode support since last year. Here is a recent thread with lots of greek.

"Greek" you wrote? Hmmm... i know many people will be glad if a Greek Nationalist like me leave this barbaric Slashdot for the less barbaric Soylent, but even here exist people needing Greek support (and a Greek like me i may add!) - e.g., recently i read (and made a comment about it) a Slashdot summary where they missed the Greek "m" for the Micro unit, not to mention some (few) barbarians here who like and know Greek.

Anyway, i congratulate Soylent News, not only for their unicode support but also for the rest developments of the code - but let's not criticize Slashdot so much, just a couple of days ago the added... a "share" button!

> That slashdot didn't support unicode

However Soylent News has had full unicode support since last year.
Here is a recent thread with lots of greek.

Someone just needs to make a new website, and let this turd circle the drain.
How hard could it really be to duplicate and/or improve upon the site design, let alone the self-described editorial staff? Use the classic low bandwidth style, HTML/CSS only with only a tiny smattering of Javascript as UI sugar, and get rid of all the Web 2.0 garbage. Maybe even put in some God damned Unicode support, and rethink the karma system so good comments don't get buried under bad moderation. Design the site right and seed it with interesting (and timely) stories, and it will take off, while this place turns into a graveyard in short order.

They did all that already. Sadly your prediction of popularity didn't happen.
https://soylentnews.org/
https://pipedot.org/

They will not put the comments link back. You don't get it: these are corporate slime. All that corporate slime and businesschmucks can do is "be like everybody else". They don't have a face - they are just suits, which is just the same for everybody else. When Cmdr Taco was at the steering wheel, this was Slashdot. When the corporate slime from Dice took over, I don't even want to click on 90% of stories. This is why MBA must be abolished. But alas - migrate to https://soylentnews.org/

Check out https://soylentnews.org/ if you are looking for a new place. It reminds me of /. from 10 years ago, in particular the GUI and interactions. I currently find it marginally useful, as there aren't nearly as many comments on stories as there are here, but hopefully that will change over time if the community grows.

So I guess ideally Slashdot would have to be run as sort of a public service, rather than as a money-maker. I figured Dice bought Slashdot and SourceForge to drive traffic to their job site, sort of as a loss-leader, goodwill gesture, look-at-us-we-totally-get-you-guys, please-consider-us-for-your-next-job-search sort of thing. But given how they're seemingly burning the goodwill candle at both ends by pushing through unpopular measure after unpopular measure, I have to admit I can't figure out what their real strategy is.

Maybe it's not an evil plan by Dice? I suspect it is some newly-appointed, over-eager IT dude that tries to "improve" the website and make it more 2.0, and perhaps also make some tasks easier for them (site management, statistics). The guy hasn't given up yet ;) but he is learning to make smaller steps.

Then again, how much could Slashdot cost to run? It's just a forum, for chissakes, right?

Then again again, if it's just a forum, why hasn't everybody moved on, en masse, to one of the clones of Slashdot that disgruntled Slashdotters have started in recent years?

That would require changing bookmarks, and habits, both of which is hard! *whine*

By the way, that soylentnews site is looking for someone to make their page (slashcode) more web 2.0. How ironic.

https://soylentnews.org

https://soylentnews.org/
http://phys.org/

just move to https://www.soylentnews.org/ clon...

done... no kickstarted neeeded

Gee, I dunno...

Agreed. It's time: https://www.soylentnews.org/

Yeah, Slashdot is not completely dead yet but I already made a soylentnews account so I go there when /. has been particularly bad.

Yeah, was it so bad having a link to the discussion, oh, I donno, below the goddamn summary that one just finished reading?

If SoylentNews would get their goddamn color schemes where they looked good and weren't hard on the eyes like the burgundy I'd probably read there more often.

I pretty much agree with the post you linked. You can check out Soylent News. Doesn't have the traffic and membership, though.

Oh and while we're bitching, what the fuck /., how do you still not have HTTPS?!??

Maybe you could move to a site similar to Slashdot but that isn't trying to slowly implement Beta.

i'm hopeful that soon we will be replacing our organs with regrown versions of our own. they are making excellent progress in this field.

As a result of this, I've been looking for a slashdot alternative, since I expect Dice to wreck this site as well in the not to terribly distant future. Sad, because I've been here for years.

Anyway, Soylent News looks promising:

https://soylentnews.org/ ... anyone have any other suggestions? Kiro5hin looked good at one time, but went full-bore political.

SoylentNews.

They did a major backend update last weekend and things are still settling, but that's where a lot of us have headed. Hope that helps.

-- kurenai.tsubasa

Great minds think alike ...

Wrote this yesterday on the other site ...

First thing I though. I welcome any suggestion for another tech news site to feed my addiction without all this pollution.

Here you go.

They're very picky on submissions, though, so the variety and community aspects aren't what Slashdot is.

Yeah, they're very picky, indeed. They only seem to allow through submissions that have already been posted on Slashdot earlier, or ones that are total rubbish.

Many of the submissions are from a small number of users with extremist agendas to push. These submissions will link to little-known or unknown sources, which upon further inspection are clearly pushing agendas, rather than delivering news in as impartial a way as is possible. Yet instead of being thrown out, these garbage submissions end up on the SoylentNews main page!

Very recently there was a massive editorial fuck up resulting in an apology.

Slashdot's submissions are sometimes shitty, but it's nowhere near as bad as it consistently is at SoylentNews.

I think you dropped this: .org

soylentnews.org

Is sourceforge really an adware source?

SoylentNews picked it up: https://soylentnews.org/articl...
SourceForge has since removed the adware from GIMP-Win: https://sourceforge.net/blog/g...

[updated on 28-5-2015] Since yesterday, SourceForge Gimp-Win mirror downloads only the original software without any offers. We also invite the Gimp-Win developer to take back control of the project if that is his desire, while respectfully asking that he maintain any project updates or allow us to do so.

> "... particularly uBlock." Apparently /. dislikes Unicode, or even just Greek letters.

Go over to SoylentNews not only did they implement unicode on the original slash codebase, they are also fully SSL enabled. It is kind of messed up that even with all that beta hoohaw, Dice still couldn't do either.

Come on over to soylent news and join other slashdot ex-pats at a site that respects its community.

Look there for a taste of how it's done by the pros: https://soylentnews.org/

I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is commonly not well understood by general practitioners (to the point of doing exactly the wrong thing for the patient's welfare, because that makes the numbers look good, but leads to immune attacks on not only the thyroid gland, but also sometimes the eyes and other organs). In sheer self-defense, I've had to become an expert, mainly by reading the Journal of Endocrinology.

Removal of the testes is going to affect thyroid production, tho that's something I haven't looked into. If thyroid proves normal, you might ask about slightly increasing your testosterone (females need this too) and/or estrogen intake, or progesterone (which is a mood elevator in some people). Your TG hormone cocktail isn't going to be quite stable if the thyroid isn't right, either.

Low thyroid can affect just about everything. If your depression is at all alleviated by eating, that's a strong redflag, since the food serves to improve blood sugar (albeit temporarily) when thyroid is not doing the job.

https://soylentnews.org/commen...

and that was just what I could recall at that moment; about a dozen more came to mind later, like constipation, chest pain in the region of the heart, mild palsy, loss of coordination, and vertigo.

Also, thyroid production trails off with age... a great many "problems of aging" go away with thyroid replacement, but it is seldom done for that sort of patient. A lot of elderly are suffering needlessly as a result.

There are lots of studies on studies, and in general they are a good idea. Here's my take on that (from SoylentNews), slightly paraphrased to hopefully demonstrate why meta-studies can be good:

Keeping track of information is difficult, and journals generally don't like people to pepper their articles with too many citations. If the same information gets spread around, then the chance of citation drops for any particular article that contains that information. This is a problem, even with Watson-level recall, and even the very best papers will suffer from this issue.

Let's say there's a wonderful paper published in a journal that reviews a whole bunch of things. It survives for about 6 months with citations ramping up, but then someone discovers something new and interesting about one of those things. Then, people who would previously cite the big paper and therefore let others know about it, might decide that in their particular area, the new paper is a more appropriate citation.

About 6 months after that, the paper has hit its "peak citation rate", as the popularity of the paper is eroded in many different areas by the smaller, newer papers. Pick any one of those new papers, and you could easily say the earlier paper is better. However, pick any one of those many things, and you can probably find a better paper for the that particular area of study. Funding sources encourage this behaviour — being better than some previous paper, and fragmenting the research knowledge as much as possible.

People could read the single big paper and get a great overview, but over time they become more likely to know about the smaller papers which give excellent detail, but are very specific. Over time, the general knowledge of readers is reduced, and they lose track of related work outside their area of expertise.

For a change, this is something that appeared on SoylentNews before Slashdot. It has been interesting tracking this article through the social media sites that I frequent:

Reddit — Submitted Wed, Mar 11; 211 comments at the time of writing this comment

SoylentNews — Submitted Sunday, Mar 15; 16 comments at the time of writing this comment

Slashdot — Posted Monday, Mar 16; 30 comments at the time of writing this comment

I don't even read Slashdot "stories" about Microsoft anymore, because most are just obvious "troll" or click-bait aimed at the anti-microsofties that prevail at Slashdot.

Soylentnews.com is a great site.

http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/01/1949210 Are you sure?

Also, in the event of a breach at this juncture, there should be a financial penalty for their negligence.

Fines Remain Rare as Health Data Breaches Multiply
on Tuesday March 03, @04:51AM
from the cost-of-doing-business dept.

tt2024432 writes:

Since October 2009, [US] health care providers and organizations (including third parties that do business with them) have reported more than 1,140 large breaches to the Office for Civil Rights, affecting upward of 41 million people. They’ve also reported more than 120,000 smaller lapses, each affecting fewer than 500 people.

In a string of meetings and press releases, the federal government’s health watchdogs have delivered a stern message: They are cracking down on insurers, hospitals and doctors offices that don’t adequately protect the security and privacy of medical records.

But as breaches of patient records proliferate – just this month, insurer Anthem revealed a hack that exposed information for nearly 80 million people – federal overseers have seldom penalized the health care organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, a ProPublica review shows.

sure this will get downvoted to offtopic but i think it very much is part of the topic of the community. Design changes.
Slashdot implemented beta and it failed, so instead of leaving that which isnt broken alone they decided to slowly, quietly roll out beta in a boiled-frog approach. posting is sinisterly difficult, tracking replies or just general community discussions has been made more cumbersome, and no offer to revert to the old, unbroken ui has been made.

If you dont like this change, if you dont like slashdot pushing this turd of a design without so much as a second thought to the community that generates its revenue, if you like the old slashcode, check out http://soylentnews.org/

seriously. come join us over on http://www.soylentnews.org/

There is always http://soylentnews.org/ Formed by people sick of the nonsense that goes on here.

It is never a bad idea to go out and live your life, but you can try this Slashdot-reinvented site (that actually respects its users) if you feel nostalgic:
http://soylentnews.org/

Can I suggest SoylentNews?

http://soylentnews.org/

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Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

You should hang out on Soylent. We covered that story 10 days ago.

If you click the "Read" button below this paragraph, the video interview will play automatically.

nice try. on behalf of all the slashdotters who have tolerated incremental skullfucking of the original slashcode and bullshit that is Beta, This is why your userbase is dwindling and participation is falling. Noscript, microblock, adaway, and yet after all this we still get 1080p slashvertising turds that magic-play when we click to read the comments that make your site worthwhile at all?
on behalf of all of us, Fuck you dice. heres hoping https://soylentnews.org/ takes off.

On SoylentNews there's more of a no-clickbait-or-advertising-bullshit culture. Are you a member?

A lot of us are on soylent news. http://soylentnews.org/

Buck Feta!