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Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info)
kodiaktau writes with a link to today's announcement that DHI Group, Inc. (which you might know better as Dice, the company that bought Slashdot and sister site SourceForge in 2012) today announced that it completed the sale of its Slashdot and SourceForge businesses (together referred to as 'Slashdot Media') to BIZX, LLC in a transaction that closed on January 27, 2016. Financial terms were not disclosed. DHI first announced its plan to sell Slashdot Media in July 2015 as part of its strategy to focus on its core brands, as Slashdot Media no longer fits within the Company's core strategic initiatives. KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. served as the Company's exclusive financial advisor for the transaction. (FOSS Force has a short article with some more info BIZX and the sale.)
Man, things sure were a lot better back when Dice owned this place.
There is no remaining evidence of anyone working at slashdot to layoff...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Presumably they're working hard on not supporting Unicode.
I read the internet for the articles.
[...]and we can get some editors who actually read the site?
And destroy a tradition that dates back to when the site was independent, and run for love not money? Blasphemy!
Cold-calling people for ads?
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Browsing Reddit for stories.
We won't get confirmation until we see this story in the front page again in a couple of days.
I for one welcome our new BIZX overlords... oh man I feel so lame ;-p
I hear they'll redo the site to update it with a more modern look. I think they'll set up a site with test modifications, and call it 'Slashdot Bis' while collecting feedback, which they expect will be nearly universally positive.
Darn.
This probably means all us commenters are going to have to train our Chinese replacements.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You paid money for Slashdot and could not work out a lower user id than 4433507 as a part of the sale?!??!
I'd go for 666 if you were you. :)
Where the hell did Beta go? Everyone here seemed on board and then whoosh, nothing. Like a giant vacuum where no one can hear you compliment the web 3.0 interface. It's a wasted opportunity.
They could block him with a custom HOSTS file.
Waht?
I wish I would have met you before we signed the contract. ;)
we're listening to you guys.
Now I know Slashdot is in trouble...
Required reading for internet skeptics
Yes, a soupçon of Unicode support would be a boon to those of us who wish to drop in the occasional pretentious foreign phrase, name-drop our visit to Düsseldorf or Tromsø, or bring up El Niño for the umpteenth time.
Man your 30th birthday is going to SUCK!
Well alright then.
"It looks like I went back in a time tunnel to 1998. "
As opposed to how joyously Slashdotters receive the smallest change to that 1998 style.
same as the old boss
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new editorial overlords.
Well, for one, welcome our new overlords, and remind them as a trusted anonymous personality, I can be useful to them in their underground sugar mines.
Uhh.. paraphrasing Donald Trump might not be the best of ideas.
Just heard some sad news on talk radio - In an apparent suicide, Math wizard / Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton was found dead in his Oklahoma home this evening shortly before 10 PM. Found near his body was a smashed LG Optimus phone, several texts on distributed social networks, and several mysterious sketches on paper of something called "Beta". Police also noted a backyard shed filled with freezers of ice standing next to a whiteboard full of strange handwritten math calculations, but could not determine their apparent purpose. There weren't any more details beyond this. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his posts here during the Dice era, there's no denying his frequent contributions to popular culture. Truly a Dicedot icon.
You guys should hire Jon Katz.
but less articles that are just shills for dice.com. Maybe there will be a "travel & tourism" series for nerds who venture outside of their mom's basement.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
No, you mix it up with NSA - the only agency that really listens to you.
Slashdot isn't the government though.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
The old ones have awakened!
The end is nigh!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Don't worry. This is Slashdot. The dupe is due for about Sunday.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I truly loved his articles.
Ok, that's overstating it. I loved it when he wrote an article. The content was negligible but you could count on really awesome comments.
One could say his articles were like the dud auditions on American Idle. You don't watch it for the crappy performance but for the vitriolic comments.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Apparently a bunch of nerds discussing tech and saying whatever the fuck they want didn't turn out to be the easy cash machine they expected it to be.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
They should sell slashdot more often.