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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: 1) by Bruce Perens on Monday February 17 2014, @07:11PM

    by Bruce Perens (916) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:11PM (#1165) Homepage

    Yes, I pulled the plug twice, mostly due to lack of readership and having more important uses of my time (because the lack of readership didn't make the activity worthwhile). The only difference now is that Slashdot stinks worse than it did back then.

    If you can contribute software that improves upon Slash, that's valuable -- but I'm not sure that trying to suck people to your site is where you should be expending your effort.

    This brings us back to the lack of readership issue. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @07:18PM (#1167)

    I have to disagree with your ideas. Your site failed once, due to a lack of readership. I am not interested in visiting it in the future as I feel it will probably fail again. In fact coming here to get users will likely result in neither site having enough users to make it worthwhile. Good luck to you, but I have no intention of switching again. I can appreciate that you are trying to do good things, but I have no desire in the community splintering any more then it already has.

    • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Monday February 17 2014, @09:02PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:02PM (#1235)

      I don't think there will be so much competition between the sites -- Maybe I'm unique, though I doubt it -- I have a series of sites I check everyday. The existence of one does not make me avoid the others at all.

  • (Score: 1) by tristram on Monday February 17 2014, @08:28PM

    by tristram (836) on Monday February 17 2014, @08:28PM (#1210)

    Well, this response kind of tells me that when you lose interest again, you'll yank it yet again.

    This brings us back to the lack of readership issue. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it?

    An obvious solution would be to try to work with those who produced this site, rather than working against them. Yes, they may not have a history of success in running a discussion site -- but at least they don't have a history of failure.

    I don't know whether the administrators here are married to the idea of using Slash or not, but hopefully they're at least willing to take a look at available alternatives.