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Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice?

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Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice?

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Post by vocatan »

so https://www.slashdot.org hasn't been showing new stories for since yesterday mid-day. If you go to the firehose url of https://slashdot.org/recent it shows "503 - Service Offline Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later."

Am I the only dinosaur who turns to Slashdot for my daily news fix (along with Hacker News, of course!). Didn't find anybody posting on this on Hacker News nor on Twitter.. wondering if anybody's noticing, or just thinking it's a slow day.

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Post by vocatan »

SEJeff wrote: post #2

I stopped reading slashdot after CmdrTaco left, it just didn't have the same "bespoke hand crafted" feel to the content. HN / the twitters has been my person go-to since.

Consuming from twitter is like drinking from a genuine firehose, gives me nothing but gas and regrets. :D

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Post by tarellel »

clouddrover wrote: post #4

The Sourceforge Operations Twitter feed says they've had some outages lately (including a DDOS attack) and that they're working on it: https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops

Pretty sad, considering slashdot's traffic used to be a source of what "appeared" to be a DDOS attack because of all the traffic. It used to be the best source around for tech related news, now it mostly consists of reposts from various sites. I think it would have stayed relevant if it had been an entity of it's own, rather than being part of the whole SourceForge tragedy.
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