I've been following Slashdot since the 90s and it just seems to be evolving into another unfocused blog.
I loved reading Slashdot everyday(mostly!) but it just is not the same anymore.
As a geek I felt I belonged to a site like this and felt very comfortable here. It's also one of the very few sites where I can be arsed actually commenting on anything.
But over the past few weeks the story submissions are becoming less relevant to me now and Slashdot has become a less interest
I too started with Slashdot in the late 90's (closer to early 2000 I suppose).
Life/work got in the way, so I quit following the site. I finally came back about 6 months or so ago, mostly lurking.
Now I get the feeling most of the articles are aimed at getting page views. If it weren't for the comments section, I think I'd be just as well off looking at the stuff from Fast Company.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to clean up the vomit.
"...the articles are aimed at getting page views."
It would be so much better if they posted stuff I wasn't interested in. I don't think I understand this comment...
Articles aimed at getting page views appeal to a broad audience. Even a general audience, like, say American Idol viewers. Slashdot has catered to an audience that Big Media considers a niche - technophiles with actual knowledge. The articles got page views from that (small but obsessive) group, and all of the changes in the last 5-8 years have been to dumb-down and broaden the appeal of articles, thus turning/. from News for Nerds into PC Magazine. This seems to be a common trend among tech-sites: start out focused and interesting, attract a sizeable readership, worry when readership growth slows, and add a bunch of peripheral but less "intimidating" content to bring in more readers, thus alienating the original crowd. You're old enough to know this.
I guess I just still find a large number of the articles interesting. There has always been fluff stuff, or at least articles that I'm not interested in. It's not my site so I just over look those.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
This will go down well...lulz (Score:5, Informative)
Slashdot is a different beast now.
I've been following Slashdot since the 90s and it just seems to be evolving into another unfocused blog.
I loved reading Slashdot everyday(mostly!) but it just is not the same anymore.
As a geek I felt I belonged to a site like this and felt very comfortable here. It's also one of the very few sites where I can be arsed actually commenting on anything.
But over the past few weeks the story submissions are becoming less relevant to me now and Slashdot has become a less interest
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I too started with Slashdot in the late 90's (closer to early 2000 I suppose).
Life/work got in the way, so I quit following the site. I finally came back about 6 months or so ago, mostly lurking.
Now I get the feeling most of the articles are aimed at getting page views. If it weren't for the comments section, I think I'd be just as well off looking at the stuff from Fast Company.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to clean up the vomit.
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"...the articles are aimed at getting page views."
It would be so much better if they posted stuff I wasn't interested in. I don't think I understand this comment...
Re:This will go down well...lulz (Score:3, Insightful)
"...the articles are aimed at getting page views."
It would be so much better if they posted stuff I wasn't interested in. I don't think I understand this comment...
Articles aimed at getting page views appeal to a broad audience. Even a general audience, like, say American Idol viewers. Slashdot has catered to an audience that Big Media considers a niche - technophiles with actual knowledge. The articles got page views from that (small but obsessive) group, and all of the changes in the last 5-8 years have been to dumb-down and broaden the appeal of articles, thus turning /. from News for Nerds into PC Magazine. This seems to be a common trend among tech-sites: start out focused and interesting, attract a sizeable readership, worry when readership growth slows, and add a bunch of peripheral but less "intimidating" content to bring in more readers, thus alienating the original crowd. You're old enough to know this.
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I guess I just still find a large number of the articles interesting. There has always been fluff stuff, or at least articles that I'm not interested in. It's not my site so I just over look those.