We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
Exactly. And the problem will be that Slashdot needs a critical mass of users to be useful. Once that critical mass leaves, the site will suddenly be useless, and all of the stragglers will leave with them.
What this means is that they won't have the benefit of seeing their audience slowly dwindling and have time to react. Once it starts, it'll be gone in a flash.
I submit stories too. I read stories too. I add comments too. I moderate comments too. I am the reason that there is ad revenue and I am one of many reasons why those ads sell.
I am Slashdot #320366.
Changing/. change the community. Don't change the community.
I just don't see the point in throwing away the current design and starting from scratch. On classic at least 90% of the page width is contents in beta I just see lots of "painful to the eyes" white on the sides and comments shoehorned in. Improve and build on the proven old design instead.
Same bs happened on torrentfreak recently as well, they went from a functional design that listed storied top down to a two stories per line "boxes" thing. For god's sake why do they want me to strain my eyes more when I
The more they think of us as an "audience", the more they will find that their audience has left the building for someplace else that treats them like the community they are.
I submit stories too. I read stories too. I add comments too. I moderate comments too. I am the reason that there is ad revenue and I am one of many reasons why those ads sell.
I am Slashdot #43426.
Changing/. change the community. Don't change the community.
>and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience. For example inquiry.com, for which I used to work, had a site repaint. went from 1.2M daily to less than 20k. Would slashdot suffer the same fate? [ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org ]
And they thought it was a good thing... Inquiry.com, a commission based qualified buyer platform, and a tech community, has been totally obliterated.
4chan.org, and Yahoo. allow me to skin. and skin dark. If you do redesign, and dont offer me option
I lurk, I don't log in, I post snarky comments about windows or apple depending on the story. I have 12 years of uptime on my server and no one cares. I like my hot grits with Natalie Portman. I know that only old people in Korea use classic slashdot. I AM SLASHDOT!
1000 times this. Posting anonymously from work (where I have been reading/moderating/contributing since 2006).
I am Slashdot. I read stories, add comments, moderate, and engage in scientific discussion. I have a goal that some more of my research ends up on Slashdot (3 stories so far). I spend years of my life hoping to do something interesting enough that the slashdot community runs with it.
Slashdot isn't a site for news, it is a site for debate and collaboration. It is a whiteboard for us, the communi
And here is the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
We want to give our current audience the space where they are comfortable.
This is the fundamental problem between how the corporate overlords think and how the community thinks. Until this difference is resolved you will get the continual complaints and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.
I am Slashdot.
Re:And here is the problem (Score:5, Insightful)
This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
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Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
And don't think we're above setting up a fake toll booth in the desert to keep you from following us, either.
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I've only been reading Slashdot for about a year. If the beta stays and the users go, I will follow those users.
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AmiMoJo,
This a thousand times! I'd pay money to an effort to migrate to a new place. and also contribute coding time, whatever it takes.
-S
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This. Don't think the community won't up sticks and leave en-masse either. Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
No new users will come to Slashdot when it's just another crappy news blog with the standard retarded internet comments.
Exactly. And the problem will be that Slashdot needs a critical mass of users to be useful.
Once that critical mass leaves, the site will suddenly be useless, and all of the stragglers will leave with them.
What this means is that they won't have the benefit of seeing their audience slowly dwindling and have time to react. Once it starts, it'll be gone in a flash.
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No, I am Slashdot.
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No, I am Slashdot.
and so is my wife.
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I submit stories too. I read stories too. I add comments too. I moderate comments too. I am the reason that there is ad revenue and I am one of many reasons why those ads sell.
I am Slashdot #320366.
Changing /. change the community. Don't change the community.
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I am Slashdot #320366.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
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I just don't see the point in throwing away the current design and starting from scratch. On classic at least 90% of the page width is contents in beta I just see lots of "painful to the eyes" white on the sides and comments shoehorned in. Improve and build on the proven old design instead.
Same bs happened on torrentfreak recently as well, they went from a functional design that listed storied top down to a two stories per line "boxes" thing. For god's sake why do they want me to strain my eyes more when I
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I am not into hash tags etc... but you are right. We should start tagging everything as #IamSlashdot.
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you are the 99%?
sorry couldn't resist....
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"I am Slashdot."
Uhm, actually, that would be me. ;-)
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In lieu of mod points, which I haven't had for a couple of years for some reason unknown to me, please accep this (+6, Funny) from the peanut gallery.
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And how do you feel about the plastic surgery you're undergoing?
Bigger jugs, less brains?
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I am Slashdot.
I'm Spartacus.
Nice ta meet ya.
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I am the walrus.
(shut the fuck up, donny)
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Yeah, we pay your salaries dipshits!!! WE OWN YOU.
Bingo (Score:0)
"We are a community. We are not an audience."
The more they think of us as an "audience", the more they will find that their audience has left the building for someplace else that treats them like the community they are.
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I submit stories too. I read stories too. I add comments too. I moderate comments too. I am the reason that there is ad revenue and I am one of many reasons why those ads sell.
I am Slashdot #43426.
Changing /. change the community. Don't change the community.
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Why does it feel like "we are legion" is missing from the above?
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I am Spar^H^H^Hlashdot!
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>and the eventual mass exodus. We are a community. We are not an audience.
For example inquiry.com, for which I used to work,
had a site repaint. went from 1.2M daily to less than 20k.
Would slashdot suffer the same fate?
[ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org ]
And they thought it was a good thing...
Inquiry.com, a commission based qualified buyer platform,
and a tech community, has been totally obliterated.
4chan.org, and Yahoo. allow me to skin. and skin dark.
If you do redesign, and dont offer me option
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I am slashdotacus!
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I lurk, I don't log in, I post snarky comments about windows or apple depending on the story. I have 12 years of uptime on my server and no one cares. I like my hot grits with Natalie Portman. I know that only old people in Korea use classic slashdot. I AM SLASHDOT!
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1000 times this. Posting anonymously from work (where I have been reading/moderating/contributing since 2006).
I am Slashdot. I read stories, add comments, moderate, and engage in scientific discussion. I have a goal that some more of my research ends up on Slashdot (3 stories so far). I spend years of my life hoping to do something interesting enough that the slashdot community runs with it.
Slashdot isn't a site for news, it is a site for debate and collaboration. It is a whiteboard for us, the communi
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Colbert: I am Slashdot. And so can you!