SourceForge & Slashdot sold to Dice for $20M(heraldonline.com)
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SourceForge & Slashdot sold to Dice for $20M
http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/18/4270567/dice-holdings-inc-acquires-online.html
4 comments
Congratulations on the exit. Slashdot started my addiction to technology news and sourceforge started the niche that has given us things like assembla and github today. Well deserved.
... Slashdot sold out in 1999 (to Andover.net).
Bye Bye Slashdot. Was nice while you lasted. How long before its destroyed? 1 Year? 6 months?
Sadly, Slashdot hasn't been nice since mid-late 2000's, and pretty much a cesspool since 2010. It used to be that you could still find some intelligent discussion through about 2009-2010 in most stories. Now, there's none.
I don't think it can really be destroyed, as it's got nowhere worse to go. I doubt they would close down something that so many of us still instinctively type into the URL bar.
I don't think it can really be destroyed, as it's got nowhere worse to go. I doubt they would close down something that so many of us still instinctively type into the URL bar.
Slashdot lost its edge in 2006 when Digg and Reddit started making a scene. It's been a long slow decline since then.
I forget what year it was, but I basically stopped visiting after they changed over to the current design that was, for me, impossible to use. I find it sadly humorous that they still have those ridiculous "you know how to type...slow down!" posting barriers.
If anything explains /.'s decline, it's the incredible friction they've imposed on participation. It's inexplicable.
If anything explains /.'s decline, it's the incredible friction they've imposed on participation. It's inexplicable.
Early 00's I would have said (I have a low-4-digit ID on there).
It still catches some interesting stories that the other aggregators I visit miss. But I haven't gotten much if anything out of the conversation threads in some years.
Even after it became somewhat "swamped", for a while one could still find some interesting comments. (Not infrequently, those having rather low user ID values.)
I suppose I should re-enable Javascript for it and sort out the "4" and "5" rated comments. But I disabled JS when the interface became so bogged down by it, and if nothing else I'm lazy...
Even after it became somewhat "swamped", for a while one could still find some interesting comments. (Not infrequently, those having rather low user ID values.)
I suppose I should re-enable Javascript for it and sort out the "4" and "5" rated comments. But I disabled JS when the interface became so bogged down by it, and if nothing else I'm lazy...
Looks like GeekNet is going to focus on ThinkGeek. Good move really.
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