Migueldeicaza,
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Today I logged into Slashdot.org again.

Where did everyone go?

Migueldeicaza,
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Something tells me the web site is not very actively maintained:

sashk,
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@Migueldeicaza you don’t have aim or icq?

vitaut,
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@Migueldeicaza I still remember my ICQ number

thomasfuchs,
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pixel,
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@Migueldeicaza not since 2002 apparently

jawnsy,
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@Migueldeicaza do you remember your UIN? I still do lmao

chipx86,
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@jawnsy @Migueldeicaza Mine was stolen from me 🙁 RIP 298387

Schrank,
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@jawnsy @Migueldeicaza 76465140!

Weird 😂

easeout,
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@Migueldeicaza I forgot it was even called a UIN.

kancept,
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@Migueldeicaza It’s still a place that’s in my daily reading. I don’t comment there these days, esp since my account has been “lost” a few times now and I’m tired of bothering. It’d be served fine as a feed in RSS if I bothered.

CmdrTaco,
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bradwilson,
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lorddimwit,
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@Migueldeicaza

As someone who had a four digit Slashdot UID in 1998 (before they migrated all the accounts and renumbered them in…1999 or so?):

I don’t know if it was always weirdly right wing and I was just too young/naive to notice or not but…they got weird. I remembering checking them out for fun in 2016 and they had front page stories espousing Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.

Migueldeicaza,
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@lorddimwit Wow, yeah, I think it has changed hands a few times.

joy,
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@Migueldeicaza At this point, it has basically devolved into quasi-moderated content farm.

I have to say though, a part of my soul hurts when a sales rep from sourceforge tries to pitch me on a paid placement. Real “kiddo, back in the day” vibes.

prsfalken,
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@Migueldeicaza Reddit?

thomasfuchs,
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@Migueldeicaza TIL Slashdot still exists

mapache,
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@thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza TIL people still know what Slashdot is

lars,
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@mapache @thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza This thread is making me doubt I'll ever fulfil my lifelong dream of being slashdotted.

mapache,
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@lars @thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza hacker news is the new slashdot, is not?

thomasfuchs,
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@mapache @lars @Migueldeicaza lol no, hackernews is alt-right fartwaffles, slashdot is linux neckbeards

conjurenation,

@Migueldeicaza I didn't even know they were still around.

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