Not as much as I used to. programming.reddit and news.yc have replaced it almost entirely. Whenever I check Slashdot nowadays I feel the stories are too political and trollish. Is it just me or has the comments quality on Slashdot actually declined significantly in the last year or so?
Do you still read Slashdot?
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Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#22I check occasionally but often I find nothing worth clicking on. The range of stories seems narrower now than it was a few years ago. It seems like they reacted to the arrival of digg and reddit by deciding to focus on their core competency, new OS releases.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#23My slashdot visits have become rather infrequent over the last couple of years.To be honest neither reddit nor news.yc still get the kind of quality comments/analysis that a lot of the slashdotter comments >= 3 provide. programming.reddit.com is better. Add to that humour - there used to be a couple of sites that collected humorous comments from slashdot. You can't build a community overnight - it takes years; something that most people don't want to hear. I know for a fact that a lot of older hackers hang out on slashdot - that could account for the more insightful comments and great sense of humour. The trick is to experiment with the filters.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#24Yes. The commentary on /. tends to have an infinitely higher quality than found elsewhere (particularly digg.) Digg and Reddit are great for breaking news, but when I'm looking for an interesting (quality) discussion /. can rarely be beat.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#25Never did. Whenever I looked at it, it just felt like a bunch of Microsoft-haters resentful of the fact that they still lived in their mom's house.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#26Yes, but only in the following way: sorted by highest score, -2 funny modifier, and with a plugin to allow thread collapsing.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#27It's still my homepage out of loyalty but I rarely actually read it. How messed up is that?
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#28Absolutely. I still find a lot of interesting things there, and the comments are really great. I especially like the comment tags (informative, funny, etc.).
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#29I stopped for a while when reddit was at its peak, but now I'm back to slashdot every once in a while.
Re: Do you still read Slashdot?
#30no.
gave up on reddit, too, which now consists mostly of iran conspiracy theories.