jdifool's Journal: Dot Slash

More and more people seem to be disappointed by ./ editors and editorial management. Yet no other site (except kuro5hin, but it's not that vivid anymore) came into light.

There are plenty of reasons to that, for sure. I think the main one is that geeks are not that prone to change, since /. provide a very well-known interface.
Some kind of monopoly ; a monopoloy which would use gregarity as a critical mass, to prevent people from fleeing the blatant misuses of the system.

Hence, why not completely copy the site ? We could use the XML feeds (once every thirhty minutes), and get the same look and feel in the short term, just to get people feel at home.

And then, gradually change, pragmatically improve the built system. In short, a fork.

The advantage of that is a democratic and, let's hope, more journalistic system. No more censored threads, no more factual mistakes (double check, my lord). And then, subsequently, less trolls.

I think 10 people would be enough. I'm looking for volunteers ; especially in Perl hacking (in which I'm not skilled enough). I can take care of the site redesign, and of a good part of the edition.

Someone ? something ?

We've seen enough of this.

It's the people that matter, not the technology

[Bronster]

The problem with an alternative to slashdot is that slashdot is 'good enough'. Sure it's not perfect, but you would need to have a compelling reason for people to change.

Any new site without the people reading and posting just won't be interesting enough to keep people coming back. Slashdot sort of fills the niche already, so why would people move to a new one?

It's a great idea, but I don't know that it is really doable. Of course, a site that presents slashdot content in a nicer format would be very c

Re:It's the people that matter, not the technology

[efflux]

I think a way around these problems would be to have more 'niche' reporting. Pick a few specialty topics to cover that slashdot doesn't--or doesn't very often. I would be interested in helping if I am able to do some interesting projects. I'm not a Perl hacker though. Jdifool, e-mail me at charter.net. My userid is michaelarmes. I'm going to be in the middle of a move here soon, but I'll have quite a bit of time this summer.

Re:It's the people that matter, not the technology

[Bronster]

I am also a Perl hacker, and willing to help. My email address is right here in the open ready to be abused ;)