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Re: Do you still read Slashdot?

#16
I've made several unsuccessful attempts over the years to go more than a few days without reading slashdot :)

I still read it almost every day, at least to check what the stories are. For a while, about eight months ago, I found myself going to it less, in favor of the main reddit page. Now that www.reddit.com has... evolved, I start a lot of my free-range browsing time from programming.reddit.com and slashdot (as well as news.yc, suddenly).

The firehose is intriguing. Good to see Malda et al. continuing to experiment with novel approaches (and it IS novel - it's not a straight digg/reddit clone, as some opine). Will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Re: Do you still read Slashdot?

#17
I started reading Slashdot when it was Chips and Dips...but I had completely discontinued Slashdot for about two years and reddit took its place. Now that reddit has declined from a "have to read nearly every link on the page" to "maybe two or three articles per day" habit, I find myself going back to slashdot at least once every couple of days.

I read news.YC more often than either now...but the volume here is still low enough to where it's not a problem. I drop in more than I need to (I'll come back not really expecting anything new) kind of as a nervous tick while I'm waiting on software to build or virtual machine images to copy (I manage our apt/yum software repositories, and do all of the QC testing, so I twiddle my thumbs more than I'd like).

Lately, there's a lot more of that, as may be seen in my ridiculous increase in comment volume this week...I'm kind of embarrassed looking over it now...because I'm in the midst of rolling out a new version of our installer--so lots of testing and packaging. I need to find something more productive to turn into a nervous tick. Blogging, or smoking crack or something.

Re: Do you still read Slashdot?

#19
I read it daily, but it's true it's value has been declining with time. If you read many feeds, you'll keep getting duplicated news with a one day delay in Slashdot. Of course, comment reading is a no-no except you are really, really interested, in which case I only read top score comments from the first page.

Re: Do you still read Slashdot?

#20
I get all my news through my RSS reader. If it doesn't have RSS (or Atom) it doesn't exist :-)

So I look at the headlines and reads at least one article a day

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