Slashdot (Score: 4, Interesting) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 12:43 (#267) I guess this also means that Dice will trim off Slashdot when the page views get too low. The comment counts of Slashdot stories have been steadily dropping for the past few years, even before the beta and alt-slashdot thing from earlier this year. One could probably plot a graph and get a pretty good end time estimation.SourceForge will pass the mark first, though. Ever since they've allowed obnoxious ads that look like download buttons on their download pages and malware to their hosted packages, that site seems to be universally hated. Most sane projects have moved to GitHub and I expect that transfer to continue. Re: Slashdot (Score: 2, Insightful) by vanderhoth@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 13:08 (#269) Totally agree with this. I don't expect it won't be long before /. gets the axe too, which is why I've moved over here and to soylent. /. is pretty much just a shill posting site now, "I've used windows 8 for 10 years and it's so easy to use my unborn child is creating super HD video of THEIR OWN BIRTH with it!!!!11!!1!1111"Also agree with the souceforge comment. I used SF for a few different projects and to find some really great software, but now it's just a big ad fest, and a deceptive one at that. I've moved over to Github, and Git is really good. I use both SVN and Git for development, each has it's place. I find Git is much better for collaborative projects with large teams where as SVN is really good for individual or small team development.But I digress, that's what happens when community site get sold to corporate interest. Dice paid a lot of money for the brand /. had built up because they wanted to monitorize it, which means exploiting the community. Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by bradthegeek@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 13:10 (#275) While on the subject of /., is anopne else having their ad prefs ignored? They have added ads (bottom of page, top of comments), in addition to the header and sidebar. Now, I can recheck my ad prefs and they just all dont go away. Sometimes none do. At home I now surf with adblock on /. because of this. At work and on my mobile devices I have not gone so far yet.I guess I am wondering if this is across the board or only 'random users' like beta. The do seem to be constantly givving me mod points.. maybe an attempt at compensation for the ads? Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 22:26 (#27B) No, it's happening to me too, and the blocking/overlay advert at the bottom of the page is frankly unforgivable, in my opinion. I really detest it.
Re: Slashdot (Score: 2, Insightful) by vanderhoth@pipedot.org on 2014-06-19 13:08 (#269) Totally agree with this. I don't expect it won't be long before /. gets the axe too, which is why I've moved over here and to soylent. /. is pretty much just a shill posting site now, "I've used windows 8 for 10 years and it's so easy to use my unborn child is creating super HD video of THEIR OWN BIRTH with it!!!!11!!1!1111"Also agree with the souceforge comment. I used SF for a few different projects and to find some really great software, but now it's just a big ad fest, and a deceptive one at that. I've moved over to Github, and Git is really good. I use both SVN and Git for development, each has it's place. I find Git is much better for collaborative projects with large teams where as SVN is really good for individual or small team development.But I digress, that's what happens when community site get sold to corporate interest. Dice paid a lot of money for the brand /. had built up because they wanted to monitorize it, which means exploiting the community. Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by bradthegeek@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 13:10 (#275) While on the subject of /., is anopne else having their ad prefs ignored? They have added ads (bottom of page, top of comments), in addition to the header and sidebar. Now, I can recheck my ad prefs and they just all dont go away. Sometimes none do. At home I now surf with adblock on /. because of this. At work and on my mobile devices I have not gone so far yet.I guess I am wondering if this is across the board or only 'random users' like beta. The do seem to be constantly givving me mod points.. maybe an attempt at compensation for the ads? Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 22:26 (#27B) No, it's happening to me too, and the blocking/overlay advert at the bottom of the page is frankly unforgivable, in my opinion. I really detest it.
Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by bradthegeek@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 13:10 (#275) While on the subject of /., is anopne else having their ad prefs ignored? They have added ads (bottom of page, top of comments), in addition to the header and sidebar. Now, I can recheck my ad prefs and they just all dont go away. Sometimes none do. At home I now surf with adblock on /. because of this. At work and on my mobile devices I have not gone so far yet.I guess I am wondering if this is across the board or only 'random users' like beta. The do seem to be constantly givving me mod points.. maybe an attempt at compensation for the ads? Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 22:26 (#27B) No, it's happening to me too, and the blocking/overlay advert at the bottom of the page is frankly unforgivable, in my opinion. I really detest it.
Re: Slashdot (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-20 22:26 (#27B) No, it's happening to me too, and the blocking/overlay advert at the bottom of the page is frankly unforgivable, in my opinion. I really detest it.