Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later? 247
October marks Slashdot's 15th birthday. That's right, we're almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser. Throughout October we'll be running a number of meta news articles about our history, plans for the future, and special interviews. We're also giving away T-shirts to people willing to organize and host the biggest Slashdot parties. It's easy to get started. Just visit the Slashdot Anniversary Party Web Page. Sign up to go to a party, or if there aren't any in your area, create your own during the official party period of Oct. 20-30. The details of your local parties are up to you. Each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst yourselves. Wherever several Slashdot readers gather, we'll attempt to mail shirts until we run out. Geeknet will host parties in San Francisco, New York, and Ann Arbor.
To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by September 27, or sign up to attend one by September 28. This will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them. Help us celebrate 15 years of news for nerds and stuff that matters.
Commenters are worth it! (Score:4, Interesting)
Thanks for all the news, and the great comments, who, most of the time are worth spending quite alot of time reading (more interesting than the actual news)
Have some nice parties, "overthere".
User ID vs year joined? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...
Host a G+ Hangout! (Score:4, Interesting)
Please host a series of G+ hangouts. Come on guys please? I'm begging.
Has it been that long? (Score:4, Interesting)
15 years of an almost daily ritual, and yet 99% of the time I don't post myself. Still, good times!
How about some birthday presents for the users (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's give the users some birthday presents. How about bringing about some features that people have been asking for?
Mobile Application - how does a technology based website /not/ have a mobile application? /whatever/
Mobile Support - actually trying to use slashdot on a mobile platform is painful.
Simple Status Change - a simple delta of how people have modded you or commented on your comments?
A disagree button - it's 15 years on and their is still no simple 'disagree', instead fanbois simply -1 any comment against their pet
Comment activity - if you've got a comment that's being heavily modified you can't get the stats for it anymore, as memory serves you used to.
Your user stats - once upon a time these were available, now your limited to your number of +5 comments
Better shill detection - I wouldn't think this would be that hard to program, but I'm not a programmer
Editor - enough said!
Re:How about some birthday presents for the users (Score:5, Interesting)
We've got a couple presents coming. We're just about done wrapping them.