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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.)
Logan Abbott from BIZX here. Happy to answer any questions.
We're going to do our best to keep/bring back that "news for nerds" ethos and hopefully keep you here.
Noted.
Yeah we noticed those. We'll get them fixed.
Just answering questions as I see them. We're not weighing our future decisions based on the anger level of the person who suggested them.
What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
I would like to point out something. In many SJW situations the perpetrators enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame but later paid dearly.
Examples:
-Adria Richards (the PyCon Donglegate photo and tweet): after getting fired from Sendgrid during that incident she didn't find another job. Almost 3 years already.
-Jerelyn Luther (the shrieking bitch who screamed at a Yale teacher because he didn't agree with the "no offensive costume" policy of Yale): she closed all her online accounts, and her own mom removed her name from her company website...
In those cases the aftermath is a lot worse for the SJW than for the people they "shamed".
I strongly recommend Jon Ronson book about public shaming, it's fascinating.
lucm, indeed.
No, it was never supposed to be that way. Firehose itself is pretty new, an attempt to turn slashdot into Digg. Get rid of it, and only put up highly technical articles like in the actual good old days,
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
BBCode should also probably be on that list as an input option, ideally with a nice button-based interface for people who don't want to have to mess with typing markup while they write comments. And that interface should be mobile-friendly. If you've ever tried to post from an iPhone even once, you've probably developed a solid hatred for any sort of markup-based posting. The keyboard just doesn't work well for that. But there are ways to make at least semi-usable UIs for mobile devices.
Speaking of Safari/WebKit, somebody needs to actually try to use this website on Safari on OS X, and fix everything that doesn't work... like the Options button (and, for that matter, most of the overlay views, if memory serves).
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
Because right now, you have to write ñ as ñ instead of just hitting option-n followed by n.
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
And no more paywalled source articles we can't read, please. Sorry StartsWithABang, it's not personal, but you write for a publication that doesn't want us ad-blocking types as readers.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Whatever you don't "fix" classic by removing it!
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Well, the new owner's main slogan is "We help Advertisers reach the right Consumer".
They may have a harder time with that here, though. I doubt they will find a lot of capital C consumers here.
So, over to something more interesting. There's talks of staff being shown the door. Any idea who, yet? Do they get to train replacements that will actually do the needful?