Captain Splendid's Journal: A brief warning to the current anti-Slashdot beta movement

So I see Slashdot is heading towards another redesign, and there's a fair amount of folks fighting the good fight. While I wish you all the best in your current endeavor, I shan't participate or agitate.

Because the sad truth is, original flavour management already killed off this site almost ten years ago through sheer lack of giving a fuck, and Slashdot's first exodus happened, taking some of the best from this place. Worse, Taco and cronies decided that the best move after that was to spend too long slapping a coat of Web 2.0 all over the place, which had the net effect of getting rid of around half the people who had decided it stick it out. By the time Barry O. was inaugurated, the damage was well and truly done. The only people left were idiots, trolls and the precious few too lazy to jump ship.

So go ahead, flood FP stories with anti-beta comments, create alternative communities but remember: This is well-trod ground. Many before you have tried and failed. Moreover, there's nothing here left to save anyway.

Best of luck.

I don't know if this guy can pull it off...

[damn_registrars]

But the AltSlashDot [altslashdot.org] site sounds like it may have some energy to it. Obviously it needs a lot of things (including a name that won't get it sued by Dice) and isn't very old yet...

Sad, but true

[rk]

I think I come here out of total inertia. I tried the Multiply exodus way back when, but that was kind of a bust. Digg and Reddit never quite scratched the itch like /. did, either. But half the articles on slashdot these days are things I've already seen on Google news several hours or sometimes even days prior to it showing up here. The only value of reading them here is to see the discussion, which fortunately for me I have my filters set up pretty well so most of the crap flooding passes by without me n

Oh Oh

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Oh Lazy
you drive me crazy
love is hazy
so I will love
A kid like you
Had to send me away
Left me on my back
I had a heart attack
Oh Oh So lazy
You make me lazy
This love is hazy
So let me go
What do I do
When you turn blue
I didn't even know
You loved me so
Oh Oh Oh Lazy (lazy)
You drive me crazy
This love is crazy (crazy)
So let me go

I resemble that remark

[PopeRatzo]

The only people left were idiots, trolls and the precious few too lazy to jump ship.

Hey!

Actually, I don't hate the redesign. And the bugs will provide us with hours of entertainment.

I too thought there was "nothing left to save" but then I noticed that I still ended up choosing this RSS feed over the same story in another feed.

Slashdot, why can't I quit you?

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[smittyoneeach]

My name is Chris, and I started Slasdotting in 1999. I actually learned some stuff here.
Now it's all about my zany interlocutors, and the Burma Shave troll.

Some guys are working on a /. replacement

[mcgrew]

altslashdot.org

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[account_deleted]

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They have pills for this

[fustakrakich]

They're called beta blockers... (chill pills?)

I already vented on the issue and got some cheap points for it, so it's out of my system, and I'm back to resignation. Whatever happens happens.

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[account_deleted]

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[gmhowell]

"Fuck you, your masters know better."

Classic Malda...