Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Turns 100,000
This entry represents the 100,000th story posted on Slashdot. Technically this is a bit late since we're missing the first few months of stories from the DB, but there are now 100k items in the story database and I thought that milestone was worthy of sharing with the universe.
We've come a long way in the last 12 years, and while the site isn't always exactly what I want it to be, I'm very proud of the work done by our thousands of submitters and by the editors our readers have "affectionately" referred to as "The Slashdot Janitors" for so many years.
Special grats to timothy who is just short of his 17,000th story and is far and away the most prolific person here. The hall of fame has a few other bits of trivia.
...You keep trying to make UI (un)improvements...
Really? I think the comment system UI features that have been added over the past while are slick and efficient. The fewer times I am required to leave the current page for a small chunk of data to load, post or be rearranged, the better.
I've had like 30 points in the last few weeks... it can grow tiresome, though the dry spell before that was an equal burden.
This is what I do as well. I've learned far more from you guys here in the comments than I have from the maybe five articles I've actually read since I joined this place.
I have actually found that if I spend all my points before they run out and don't post while I have them I tend to continue to get them until I break the cycle.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Also, the ordering of comments. Sites where the most recent comments come first encourage repetition, circling around the same arguments and bad quality, whereas a thread you can follow allows picking up an existing conversation on top of arguments already made.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.