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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the certainly-not-here dept.

stderr writes: "I used to visit a certain website quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters" fix. So, SoylentNews, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DarkMorph on Monday February 17 2014, @04:10PM

    by DarkMorph (674) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:10PM (#1023)

    This almost seems like a joke. If you've come here to submit such a question you've already found your answer.

    But I'll chip in more than the obvious. During the slashcott I had been following Ars. Their comment system isn't as... elegant as the Slash system but it's an all right destination I suppose. I hadn't ever read Ars before the slashcott for what it's worth.

    There was much discussion in the comments on /. during the "fuck beta" tantrum regarding other sites like reddit. Opinions seem to go both ways, especially for reddit.

    It was interesting that the article at Ars about the /. beta had a handful of commentators who were ex-/.ers!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Monday February 17 2014, @04:30PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:30PM (#1043)

    I tried reddit -- the cat pic to content ratio was ridiculously high maybe 10/1. I like cats and all, have a bunch myself, but there's youtube for that type of content.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by scruffybeard on Monday February 17 2014, @05:06PM

      by scruffybeard (533) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:06PM (#1080)

      I also tried reddit a while back. The lack of a moderation system made it very hard to wade through the nonsense, trolls, and general self-righteous anger in the comments.

      • (Score: 5, Interesting) by demonlapin on Monday February 17 2014, @05:11PM

        by demonlapin (925) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:11PM (#1087) Journal
        You have to find the right subreddits. And the hive-mind effect is pretty bad.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @03:54AM (#2220)

      /r/netsec [reddit.com] has a pretty good signal to noise ratio, and appears mostly used by network security professionals. As far as tech news goes, that's about the extent of my use of reddit.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jonh on Monday February 17 2014, @05:01PM

    by jonh (733) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:01PM (#1072) Homepage

    I have a bit of a soft spot for Ars - they seem to attract intelligent (and courteous) commenters. It's one of the very few sites I've found it worth registering an account at.

    (From my POV, there's a lot of websites where the level of commentary is either amusing or depressing, depending on mood and general level of faith in humanity.)

  • (Score: 1) by nukkel on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:41PM

    by nukkel (168) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:41PM (#1789)

    Same here.

    at the start of the 'cott I looked to Ars but it just couldn't capture my interest for more than five minutes.

    Now that soylentnews is live I have my answer ;)