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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: 2, Funny) by mcgrew on Monday February 17 2014, @09:45PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday February 17 2014, @09:45PM (#1104) Homepage Journal

    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

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  • (Score: 1) by ticho on Monday February 17 2014, @09:53PM

    by ticho (89) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:53PM (#1111) Homepage Journal

    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, @11:08PM

      by jones_supa (554) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:08PM (#1161)
      DM6 was my favorite.

    • (Score: 1) by mcgrew on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:03PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:03PM (#1671) Homepage Journal

      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).

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