AltSlashdot

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Post by worrieddot » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:06 PM UTC

AltSlashdot
altslashdot.org

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by pierlux » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:42 PM UTC

And apparently so is this alternative slashdot! ("Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.")

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by eli » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:52 PM UTC

> I'm building a news site alternative to Slashdot

Starting a wiki to help build a site to compete with Slashdot seems very retro. But maybe I'm just being cranky. I wish you the best of luck, though.

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by wyclif » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:54 PM UTC

This will probably date me, but the first thing I thought of was Alterslash: http://alterslash.org/

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by Pacabel » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

It's truly astounding how the community has rallied against the beta changes.

When I look at stories from today and yesterday, viewing all comments (including the ones that have been moderated down), I'm seeing at least 90% to 95% or more expressing outrage over the beta site.

Go back merely a week, and there are only a handful of such comments within the stories.

Although I rarely visit that site any longer, I don't think I've ever seen such a highly concentrated degree of anger from so many users over a website update.

I think the uniformity and the wide-spread nature of this displeasure is truly a testament to just how bad the beta site actually is.

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by biesnecker » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

Google cache: http://bit.ly/1buD4wq since it's not up to handling (any?) concurrent users?

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by zeruch » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:03 PM UTC

...this is only just now being realized? The site took a dive quite some time ago, with Rob Malda's departure it was effectively quite dead and buried. Now this - is their "Digg" moment.

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by mmanfrin » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC

Pacabel wrote: post #5

It's truly astounding how the community has rallied against the beta changes. When I look at stories from today and yesterday, viewing all comments (including the ones that have been moderated down), I'm seeing at least 90% to 95% or more expressing outrage over the beta site. Go back merely a week, and there are only a handful of such comments within the stories. Although I rarely visit that site any longer, I don't…

    Although I rarely visit that site any longer, I don't think I've ever seen such a highly concentrated degree of anger from so many users over a website update.

Digg is the only one I can think of -- weirdly coincidental that the link taking you to the new design on the main site is anchored as 'new digs'.

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by Yetanfou » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:12 PM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #4

This will probably date me, but the first thing I thought of was Alterslash: http://alterslash.org/

Alterslash is actually an even better gauge for how things currently look at /. - just try to find an on-topic comment on that page. It'll be hard... nothing but beta-related complaints. Think Dice will listen? Neither do I.

Re: AltSlashdot

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Post by secstate » Thu, Feb 06, 2014, 11:12 PM UTC

Announcing an intention to establish a Slashdot replacement seems like a pretty silly move. If you go back to the genesis of most news aggregation sites, rarely were they announced with pomp before being unleashed. Usually they're built, seeded with content and an aura built around them by a dedicated and high quality early audience.

Besides, Slashdot built it's model up in a digg, reddit and hnews-free world. To say nothing of Twitter and Facebook. Good luck in your endeavor, but I'm going to spend my limited mindshare elsewhere, thank you very much.