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jcd writes:
"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.
So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."
(Score: 1) by astro128 on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:40PM
I love the the tech/science/math focus but I would also really like to see the online privacy/ your rights category given some focus. The tech portion of /. has moved more towards the newest iPhone and Google acquisition - while arguable tech, recently I saw an article that mentioned Google's earning report - let Bloomberg or some other financial news site cover that stuff and the numerous gadget blogs cover the iPhone releases - they are better equipped to report on it. When it comes to arguing the pitfalls/ merits of net neutrality, I believe this and /. are great sources of input for both stories not picked up by mainstream media and for the comments.
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(Score: 1) by lennier on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:34PM
"I love the the tech/science/math focus but I would also really like to see the online privacy/ your rights category given some focus."
Yes! That's pretty much what I said in my huge screed, but much more succinctly. Thank you.
There are already lots of "tech news" sites on the Internet that report the gossipy chatter of startups and device launches, with a sprinkling of science and politics around the edges. Wired was the first; Ars Technica is probably the best. What Slashdot brought to the table was a particular perspective on technology: one centred around Free/Libre Open Source Software, Open Culture, and the deeper philosophy behind that. That's why I came. But more than that, it reelcted the same philosophy via the submissions and comments. And that's why I stayed.
Obviously everyone has their own particular slant on what "news for nerds" meant, but for me FLOSS (and Linux and Mozilla as particular incarnations of FLOSS) was the core of it.
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