This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into a site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it.
I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into a site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it.
I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into s site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it. I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
Speaking for myself, the uid tells me about the shared context that users have. I'll have some idea what events we were both around for, what in-jokes we'll both get, and so on. It's a cultural signifier in the same way that graduating classes and the like can be.
For those who are way low, it tells me that they're they're the sort of people who were here before discussion boards were mainstream. That doesn't make old-timers inherently wise or whatever, but I'll pay a little more attention to what they have to say on that basis.
I've been here since 2001. It used to be a great site, and even in its latter days it remains a good one.
The changes in this new interface are destructive to the culture of this community, particularly the removal of sigs and uid#s. It is the commenting community that makes this site special. Ignoring that is a gigantic mistake.
The changes in this new interface are technically ill-concieved, requiting javascript, loading a bzillion comments but not displaying them, not supporting link markup.
The changes in the new interface are sketchy from a design standpoint. They are what, optimizing for tablets? Isn't there already a (also crappy, but at least optional) mobile site for that?
Please slashdot, don't do this.
I will be joining in the Slashcott from Feb 10-Feb 17. It will be the longest I've been off the site since I was hospitalized after an accident in 2007. Hopefully I'll be back, but maybe not. We'll see.
The problem isn't the busses per se, but the effect that they are having on real estate near bus routes. Many poor people need to live near public transit. It's how they get to work. Since these tech shuttles have been (illegally) freeloading on the public transit infrastructure, there has been a real estate land rush for apartments near the bus stops. Rents have risen amid bidding wars between tech workers in which poor folk have no hope of keeping up. The result is that poor people are being forced to give up their residences when their leases run out (and the rent goes up), and are unable to find other housing near the transportation resources upon which they depend.
If the tech companies had set up their own infrastructure (and more of it in middle-upper middle income residential areas), this wouldn't be happening.
Of course it has. The hook for LinkedIn is being able to access people to whom you are not directly connected. Paid accounts can reach out to ever more tenuous links. "Never cold-call again." implies gaining access to people who don't explicitly want to hear from you.
Well, locality violations/exceptions are one thing that we've observed which might be construed as an indicator of additional dimensions, i.e. the events might local on an axis we cant see.
I should thing their monetary authorities more concerned with money laundering around their globally infamous prostitution and heroin trades, rather than the drop in the bucket of illicit activity carried out via Bitcoin. Perhaps it's just that they haven't figured out how to take bribes via Bitcoin yet.
The Bible already tells us that God is a monster. Numbers 16 makes that abundantly clear.
The Bible can be literally true, or God can loving and just, but not both.
Without knowing what those 4y/o machines are like, let me just suggest doing the math on shipping them down there and their ongoing power consumption, as well as checking into parts availability. It is possible that something like a briefcase full of PIs or similar be a better idea from an operating and implementation expense standpoint.
It seems to me that the very act of committing an atrocity like this is clear evidence of mental illness. No sane person would murder small children out of the blue like that.
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This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into a site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it.
I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
Be seeing you.
This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into a site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it.
I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
Be seeing you.
This site used to be great. Even in it's latter days, it's been good. That is poised to change. Before long, it will be mediocre, and ordinary.
I didn't see a problem when Dice Holdings initially bought Slashdot. I figured there would be efforts to drive nerd traffic towards their job listings and such. That was fine. We all need jobs.
Things have changed now. Beyond the shifts in story choices, the slashvertisements, and so on, something fundamental has changed: Slashdot's owners do not appreciate it.
Their recent financials show that they have written its value as an asset down to zero. They have legally claimed it to be worthless. That is at the root of what is happening now. They want to fundamentally change the nature of this site in order to remake it into something with big growth potential.
Beta is just the latest symptom of this disease. It will not be the last. In striving to make it into s site that will bring them a growing user base and growing revenue per user, they have shown a willingness to dumb down the interface in the name of making it more accessible to newcomers, to cast aside essential elements of decade-spanning community culture, and to plow ahead with changes in the face of overwhelmingly negative user feedback.
This is not going to change. This will not go away. I will not support it. I will be gone for this entire week, in protest. While away, I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.
Be seeing you.
I've certainly had some interesting discussions on irc today with other bees looking to swarm elsewhere.
I'm thinking I can't trust these bee keepers anymore.
I must be new here. ;)
I am declining to read or discuss this article, in protest.
I will not visit this site at all Feb 10 through Feb 17, as part of the slashcott. http://slashcott.com/
Slashroulette?
Bravo, Anonymous Coward, bravo. I wish I had some mod points for this one.
Speaking for myself, the uid tells me about the shared context that users have. I'll have some idea what events we were both around for, what in-jokes we'll both get, and so on. It's a cultural signifier in the same way that graduating classes and the like can be.
For those who are way low, it tells me that they're they're the sort of people who were here before discussion boards were mainstream. That doesn't make old-timers inherently wise or whatever, but I'll pay a little more attention to what they have to say on that basis.
I've been here since 2001. It used to be a great site, and even in its latter days it remains a good one.
The changes in this new interface are destructive to the culture of this community, particularly the removal of sigs and uid#s. It is the commenting community that makes this site special. Ignoring that is a gigantic mistake.
The changes in this new interface are technically ill-concieved, requiting javascript, loading a bzillion comments but not displaying them, not supporting link markup.
The changes in the new interface are sketchy from a design standpoint. They are what, optimizing for tablets? Isn't there already a (also crappy, but at least optional) mobile site for that?
Please slashdot, don't do this.
I will be joining in the Slashcott from Feb 10-Feb 17. It will be the longest I've been off the site since I was hospitalized after an accident in 2007. Hopefully I'll be back, but maybe not. We'll see.
The problem isn't the busses per se, but the effect that they are having on real estate near bus routes. Many poor people need to live near public transit. It's how they get to work. Since these tech shuttles have been (illegally) freeloading on the public transit infrastructure, there has been a real estate land rush for apartments near the bus stops. Rents have risen amid bidding wars between tech workers in which poor folk have no hope of keeping up. The result is that poor people are being forced to give up their residences when their leases run out (and the rent goes up), and are unable to find other housing near the transportation resources upon which they depend.
If the tech companies had set up their own infrastructure (and more of it in middle-upper middle income residential areas), this wouldn't be happening.
The Scotts are to have a referendum on independance next year, as far as that goes.
As usual, the answer to the question posed in the headline is, "No."
If this turns out to happen every time they take a bang, it may be their "Pinto Moment." That doesn't seem to happening though.
The employment angle is just the marketting hook to get people to participate. The site's real value is to sales reps looking for leads.
Set your title to something that sounds like you're a purchasing decision maker and you'll be amazed at the attention you suddenly get.
Of course it has. The hook for LinkedIn is being able to access people to whom you are not directly connected. Paid accounts can reach out to ever more tenuous links. "Never cold-call again." implies gaining access to people who don't explicitly want to hear from you.
Well, you could never be sure of a negative. Sadly though, we now have no doubt whatsoever that there are secret proceedings issuing secret rulings. :(
Well, locality violations/exceptions are one thing that we've observed which might be construed as an indicator of additional dimensions, i.e. the events might local on an axis we cant see.
You seem to be unaware that the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 was touched of by the collapse of the Thai Bhat. That is not unimportant.
I should thing their monetary authorities more concerned with money laundering around their globally infamous prostitution and heroin trades, rather than the drop in the bucket of illicit activity carried out via Bitcoin. Perhaps it's just that they haven't figured out how to take bribes via Bitcoin yet.
Two, three, and four.
The Bible already tells us that God is a monster. Numbers 16 makes that abundantly clear. The Bible can be literally true, or God can loving and just, but not both.
Perhaps they're recruiting new developers through Dice.com?
Kuro5hin is announcing a cloud storage service.
Without knowing what those 4y/o machines are like, let me just suggest doing the math on shipping them down there and their ongoing power consumption, as well as checking into parts availability. It is possible that something like a briefcase full of PIs or similar be a better idea from an operating and implementation expense standpoint.
It seems to me that the very act of committing an atrocity like this is clear evidence of mental illness. No sane person would murder small children out of the blue like that.