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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @08:04PM   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 cmn32480 on Monday February 17 2014, @08:28PM

    by cmn32480 (443) <cmn32480NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday February 17 2014, @08:28PM (#1041) Journal

    Some threads from the past week had a few hundred comments... most topped out at 100. Some as high as 600-650.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by gallondr00nk on Monday February 17 2014, @09:41PM

    by gallondr00nk (392) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:41PM (#1102)

    There's a discussion on the comp.misc about the boycott entering a second week. [google.com] It's pointed out that while the comments are still plentiful, not that many are moderated as +4 or +5.

    Looking at /. again today, I was initially disappointed by the small impact it seemed have on the comment numbers, but it's worth remembering the quality of comment is more important.

    As for the topic, I mainly read comp.misc and Ars. I was pleasantly surprised by the comments section of the latter, which I've never bothered with before. Not /. standard, but it certainly has a decent SNR.

    • (Score: 1) by dmc on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:31AM

      by dmc (188) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:31AM (#1394)

      "
      As for the topic, I mainly read comp.misc and Ars. I was pleasantly surprised by the comments section of the latter, which I've never bothered with before. Not /. standard, but it certainly has a decent SNR.
      "

      Same basic comment here. I'll add that what I don't like about the Ars comment system is the unthreadedness of it. Combined with good moderation and high quality comments, and you get IMO a better picture of both sides of the debate. I.e. the common situation of a particular well known point getting modded highly, but then right next to it, the less known but insightful counterargument upmodded. On Ars it seems any insightful counter to a highly modded well known point gets kind of lost in the noise and distance from the 'parent' comment.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by evk on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:54AM

      by evk (597) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:54AM (#1474)

      Boycott? What boycott? Sure they changed the domain name and went from green to red, but I still think _this_ is a great site.