Slashdot Turns 100,000 443
This entry represents the 100,000th story posted on Slashdot. Technically this is a bit late since we're missing the first few months of stories from the DB, but there are now 100k items in the story database and I thought that milestone was worthy of sharing with the universe.
We've come a long way in the last 12 years, and while the site isn't always exactly what I want it to be, I'm very proud of the work done by our thousands of submitters and by the editors our readers have "affectionately" referred to as "The Slashdot Janitors" for so many years.
Special grats to timothy who is just short of his 17,000th story and is far and away the most prolific person here. The hall of fame has a few other bits of trivia.
Re:Star War TV special? (Score:3, Informative)
Something broke it temporarily. It should be fixed now: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/1333202/The-Star-Wars-Christmas-Special-Still-Exists [slashdot.org]
Re:lowest account number? (Score:5, Informative)
How's this? I know a few ppl with even lower though... and obviously the staff!
Re:lowest account number? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Age and quality. (Score:4, Informative)
The UI would be fine if a) it worked correctly cross-browser, or at least among standards-compliant browsers and b) the javascript that powers most of it wasn't some of the slowest ever written. Honestly, the whole lot of it could be replaced in about 5kb of code that works 10x better and 50x faster, in about two hours worth of work. Well, if half of slashcode hadn't been eaten by a grue years ago.
Re:Plus or minus one? (Score:3, Informative)
Does that 100,000 include the Star Wars Christmas Special story which mysteriously disappeared yesterday?
It's been fixed, says Soulskill [slashdot.org]:
Something broke it temporarily. It should be fixed now: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/1333202/The-Star-Wars-Christmas-Special-Still-Exists [slashdot.org]
not much have changed (Score:2, Informative)
Re:well (Score:4, Informative)
The lowest I've seen in a very long time is a three digit UID.
Re:High karma, but stopped getting mod points (Score:3, Informative)
Isn't that what happens if you get ranked badly in metamoderation? I'm not going to RTFMMM just now.
Re:well (Score:3, Informative)
Nevermind [slashdot.org]
Re:12 Years?!? (Score:3, Informative)
And if you wanted to email someone who was on a BBS (say, 'BBS-X') which wasn't connected directly to the Internet, but got their feed through another BBS (say, 'BBS-Y'), the address would look like: BBS-Y!BBS-X!user@somerandomgateway.com.
Back then, you had to EARN your email.
Re:Age and quality. (Score:3, Informative)
That's the negative aspect of the
But yes, I agree, it is certainly the worst - except for everything else.
Re:Or no Javascript at all... (Score:3, Informative)