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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @04:04PM   
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?"

• slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of us slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of us (Score: 2) by tdk on Monday February 17 2014, @07:03PM

  by tdk (346) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:03PM (#1155) Homepage Journal

  When I first set up squte.com as a slashdot look-a-like, I tried to use slashcode but found it so difficult, that like you I gave it up for a more modern framework. Other people had similar problems. [kuro5hin.org]

  All of which just makes the achievements of the soylent news dev team more impressive. Maybe they should move to something more modern - but the goal was to get something as similar to /. up as quickly as possible. There'll be plenty of time later to experiment.

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• Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:31AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:31AM (#2186)

  As others have pointed out, the "killer" feature of Slashcode is the mod/commenting system. So far, no other forum code has been able to match it feature-for-feature, but I'm sure a lot of developers out there have recently been inspired to try!

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  • Re:slashcode is old but still works, like a lot of (Score: 1) by tdk on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:34AM

    by tdk (346) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:34AM (#2374) Homepage Journal

    There are a few projects that use Slashdot type moderation. See scoop [kuro5hin.org] and slashcomments [drupal.org].

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