Your post here is a steaming pile because you know "Timothy" that You folks have absolutely NO intention of backing away from the new un-needed and useless "design" for the sake of "design" design. "Web Designers" and marketers have a lot in common, they want to foist "pretty" shit that serves no real benefit.
Hopfully Bruce Perens will reserect his Slashdot alternative that failed when Slashdot didn't SUCK as much as it does now.
So, it is tempting to resurrect Technocrat.net now that Slashdot stinks worse than the last two times I shut down technocrat.net.
If you remember, we didn't get very many readers. We didn't get them because not enough people submitted usable articles.
As it happens, we don't just need a better Slashdot. We need a replacement for Groklaw. And I personally would be happier reading something with the absolute minimum of Javascript except perhaps in the submission editor. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
Developing a community will take time. It is a percentages game.... 100% will visit, 1% of that will contribute, 1% of the contributors will submit articles.
So do the math and see if it is worth it.
You've got the star power to pull together a few hundred people. That is a better starting point than most people would have.
Quite happy to help with the stack and hosting, and other issues you may have, although I suspect you will not need help.
Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot BETA Sucks.
Your post here is a steaming pile because you know "Timothy" that You folks have absolutely NO intention of backing away from the new un-needed and useless "design" for the sake of "design" design. "Web Designers" and marketers have a lot in common, they want to foist "pretty" shit that serves no real benefit.
Hopfully Bruce Perens will reserect his Slashdot alternative that failed when Slashdot didn't SUCK as much as it does now.
Join the boycott 10-17 February!
Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score:5, Interesting)
Hi,
So, it is tempting to resurrect Technocrat.net now that Slashdot stinks worse than the last two times I shut down technocrat.net .
If you remember, we didn't get very many readers. We didn't get them because not enough people submitted usable articles.
As it happens, we don't just need a better Slashdot. We need a replacement for Groklaw. And I personally would be happier reading something with the absolute minimum of Javascript except perhaps in the submission editor. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
I know that
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Developing a community will take time. It is a percentages game .... 100% will visit, 1% of that will contribute, 1% of the contributors will submit articles.
So do the math and see if it is worth it.
You've got the star power to pull together a few hundred people. That is a better starting point than most people would have.
Quite happy to help with the stack and hosting, and other issues you may have, although I suspect you will not need help.
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Or ... let someone else do the dirty work and provide your star power to them.
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Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score:2)
Too bad.
What i meant was, you own the resources / IP, bring together a few volunteers.
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