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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, Interesting) by The_Deacon on Monday February 17 2014, @04:13PM
This isn't exactly on-topic, but the topic got me thinking about it anyway ... does anybody have any statistics (or recommend ways to get them shy of asking Dice) of slashdot.org traffic over the past few days/weeks? It would be interesting to see if the "slashcott" made any sort of dent in their traffic.
I know for myself, it's been difficult (but I did succeeded!) in not loading slashdot as part of my regular daily litany. That's at least 15-20 page loads over the course of a week that stopped last week. I wonder how many others have done the same...
(Score: 2, Funny) by The_Deacon on Monday February 17 2014, @04:16PM
s/succeeded/succeed/
D'oh! My first post and it contains a typo. This better not be par for the course...
(Score: 1) by mhajicek on Monday February 17 2014, @04:28PM
Don't feel bad. I made a "their" / "they're" error on my first post here.
(Score: 1) by qwade on Monday February 17 2014, @08:11PM
Your not to blame. Anyone could of done that
*wince* Man, that was even painful to write :/
(Score: 4, Interesting) by linsane on Monday February 17 2014, @05:34PM
Some stats on the polls, Votes per day and Comments per day going back for the last 20 SD polls. This is I reckon a slightly better proxy than the article comment count (subject to usual caveats, error factors etc):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuduJ vnvxxdhdFlYR3BvV1hMYzFnODJPR0xpOWdkcEE&usp=sharing [google.com]
Jan & Feb definitely lower tho this could be to do with folk just getting fed up rather than the slashcott which only has one data point. I'm sure it is easy enough to extend this but a glance shows that the Votes per Day 12+ months ago was considerably higher.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kru on Monday February 17 2014, @07:24PM
So the slashcott was about equal to their drop during the Christmas-New Years break. That's pretty amazing. I was expecting only a handful of people to actually go through with it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday February 17 2014, @08:41PM
I fully did the slashcott -- I didn't realize what an addict I was till I woke up, checked my instinct to click the bookmark in my toolbar, and then focused on the sites I check second. It was actually a hard week -- I didn't realize how many times I went to /. every day for a small break until I couldn't go there, and left me pretty frustrated all week.
(Score: 1) by quacking duck on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:27PM
Managed to do it myself. Typed it out on the address bar and hit enter just once, but closed it before anything loaded. And today I typed in "altslashdot" to see the progress here... still haven't loaded the old site yet.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @05:38PM
I jumped over once to check the site and they'd taken down the "We're listening" post on the main page. Also, none of the comments were about the beta, so either the slashcott people really WERE thoroughly boycotting or they're aggressively censoring anti-Beta sentiments.
Either way, pretty interesting.
(Score: 1) by dry on Monday February 17 2014, @11:48PM
There are still comments about the beta but generally the people that are left are sick of them and the moderation reflects it. /. for now but if the beta ever is forced I'll be gone. There's also a good chance that this site may replace /. for me, especially if users keep moving here.
One of the problems with Slashdot and probably similar sites is when a meme gets overdone and the beta hate was getting to that point.
Myself, I'll keep visiting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitari
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday March 06 2014, @03:24AM
You probably know how Firefox ( and I guess other browsers as well ) let you put a commonly visited site's icon at the top toolbar?
I only have room for a little over a dozen of them. Soylent is on mine right next to Slashdot. When I can no longer access the Slashdot I knew, I will delete the Slashdot icon. Once I delete it, the probability is quite low I ever go there again.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2, Funny) by mcgrew on Monday February 17 2014, @05:45PM
Hey, why doesn't blockquote work? I re-registered this morning (I had had UID 123 before) and it's still only seven hundred something, so I doubt /.'s numbers were down much. Someone from soylent should be able to give site stats for here.
Here's a sarcastic parody from fifteen years ago this month that I think applies in this case:
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I want to again thank all you folks that sent mail about that "webmaster too" article on Planet Quake. It seems I have one more regular visitor, who appears to be replacing a dropout. The rest must be Fragfest regulars, as my visitor count is actually down a bit this week (except Sunday and Monday).
Of course, Planet Quake is being boycotted again by some of the regulars at Planet Crap.
Nice timing, guys.
At the last count, the boycott has made Planet Quake's 100,000 hits per day drop steeply to, oh, about 99,994 per day. Give or take half a dozen.
Meanwhile, the boycotters' pages counts have risen to an average of a phenominal 9.5 hits per week.
The boycott stems from Planet Quake's "stealing" a domain they paid for from a site they hosted. It does sound like they aren't being exactly nice to the guy, but wtf, I don't have a domain; why should he? Unless he can afford to blow the price of a Voodoo, in which case he would have had it before PQ hosted him anyway.
Some people can't stand to see anybody make a buck. Commie bastards. 2/25/1999
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]
(Score: 1) by ticho on Monday February 17 2014, @05:53PM
I don't think they really noticed any boycott either.
Ahh, the good old days of quake. The endless hours spent on q1dm4. It really was a Bad Place.
(Score: 1) by jones_supa on Monday February 17 2014, @07:08PM
(Score: 1) by mcgrew on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:03PM
I've been re-running stuff from that site in my journal, of course it's in the guise of time travel now. I'll be posting identical journals here as well, perhaps a day earlier (soylent needs me more than slashdot does).
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Monday February 17 2014, @06:36PM
I know for myself, it's been difficult (but I did succeeded!) in not loading slashdot as part of my regular daily litany.
I still visited, I just didn't write any comments.
For some reason I rarely get mod points there anymore. I've got great karma and a low uid, typically post 10+ times a week, frequently get moderated +5, but I can easily go 6 months without getting mod points.
This morning I had 15 mod points over there. I'm not going to use any of them, now that Soylent is up, I won't even be visiting there as much. But it sure made me suspicious.
(Score: 1) by Angry Jesus on Monday February 17 2014, @06:42PM
Ack! Why doesn't the quote tag work here?
It's making me angry.
(Score: 2, Informative) by dry on Monday February 17 2014, @11:52PM
Ack! Why doesn't the quote tag work here?
Use the italic tag as we used to do on /.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitari
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stroucki on Monday February 17 2014, @06:37PM
Does it matter? Don't you feel better about doing what is right, rather than second guessing yourself just because it may not have had the impact you were hoping for?
(Score: 1) by efitton on Monday February 17 2014, @10:10PM
It matters a lot less now.
(Score: 1) by No Respect on Monday February 17 2014, @07:24PM
'Twas difficult for me as well, but I also did it. Today I went there to see what was going on, saw NO comments in any story about the beta and figured the /cott was having its desired effect. I can't be sure of that, however, without data. Maybe comments about beta aren't getting modded up like they were 2 weeks ago and fell below my viewing threshold.
I did see, however, a link to SoylentNews, came here, registered, and hope to be here for a long time.
(Score: 1) by hatta on Monday February 17 2014, @08:48PM
Block it at the router, and your muscle memory will soon fade.
(Score: 1) by el_oscuro on Sunday February 23 2014, @11:24PM
I of course boycotted "the old site" from the scheduled 10-17 Feb. Reading and commenting on soylentnews helped keep me from clicking on that RSS feed. Venturing back into there a few days ago, and beta is gone! The boycott appears to have worked. However the damage is done. CommanderTaco is gone and dice is in charge. It won't be long before it gets crappified again.
Now we have Dopefish [dopefish.com] in charge. What could be cooler than that? An now soylentnews has an RSS feed so I can get my fix without having to go to "the old site"